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And every one of you exercising your right to free speech.

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There should be a law protecting somepeople from their right to free speech. In this persons case, violation of that law should be punishable by death.

[ May 17, 2004, 19:26: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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If you remove the ?id=528 portion of the url, you'll get a true random page each time. The top 20 listed on the side are "Gomer"-type accidents. That much is true. But the site thinks in some cases getting your transport shot at by a rocket propelled grenade makes a person "stupid" as well.

This guy is a troll. Not you sachmo, the guy who wrote the site.

There was another site, obviously deliberately written to piss people off with false info. It tried to show how the American flag was no longer flying at the D-Day memorial in Caen, France, shortly after France expressed opposition to the US before the Iraq war. I never found out if it was a case of photoshopping, caught them while they were in the process of raising the flag, wind-blown behind the pole or what. And now I've lost track of the site.

What was interesting to me was what happened when the guy with the D-day site was cornered and asked to explain himself. He got all philosophical on the definition of knowledge and information. I never could find out conclusively if he was pro-US and faked the photos to make France look bad, anti-US and faked the photos, so people would get riled up, be proven wrong and look like fools. Or just a prankster, trying to see what the Internet would do with random bits of information.

Anyhow, a troll. Plain and simple.

[ May 17, 2004, 20:31: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

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Bad taste definitively http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I can't locate Lynndie England there so it's incorrect to boot. (Or GWB for that matter, but then again he can hardly be labeled a soldier http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

Don't let the annoyance of this moron (the site maker) make you forget the real criminals.

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I must agree that this site is in extremely poor taste. There is no sign from the information given that any of the soldiers listed died due to 'stupidity' on their part. Many very smart people die in traffic accidents, or while working with heavy machinery, or even in an ordinary swimming pool. Now, if you want to make a case for stupid foreign policy that's another matter... but the soldiers are not the ones responsible for that.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I mean no offense by this, merely a correction. Please take it as such.

You are not officially involved in a war. The war was declared to be over a year ago. I would say that it is essentially a warzone over there, but it is not "officially" a war.

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Freedom of speach isn't free. Its paid for by the blood of those very military men and women who have and are dying in the line of duty.

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And freedom has been suppressed by military men. The military must not be supported unconditionally.

Yes, I think the guy's an *** too.

I'm just saying that the military cannot be supported unconditionally.

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Well said Narf- you summed up my own feelings eloquently.

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I think that falls under the Duhhhhhhhhh file guys. So it goes without saying.