Text 6174, 74 rader
Skriven 2004-12-12 14:16:46 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
   Kommentar till text 6148 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: Photo of war
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 SD> Hello, Björn.

 SD> On 11 Dec 04 at 18:21, Björn Forsström wrote to Sean Dennis:

 BF>> Harsh words from someone who obviously know nothing.

 SD> I served eight years in the US Army, Bjorn.  You know nothing about the US
 SD> Army.  How dare you tell me I don't know anything about the military.  I
 SD> tried to be nice, but now I'm starting to see that you're a typical
 SD> European idiot who thinks he knows everything about the US.

 SD> How dare YOU insult ME about my spending eight years of my life in the
 SD> military and not knowing nothing.  You should be ashamed of yourself.

 BF>> I just, two hours ago, saw CBS 60 minutes on TV how one of your guys at
 BF>> Guantanamo was convicted after having taken 2 pictures of the
 BF>> guard-towers.

 SD> Well, duh, he took pictures of a restricted area... he knew better than to
 SD> do that.

 BF>> But this is an anti-American propaganda as well I guess but then you have
 BF>> to take it up with the makers of CBS 60 minutes.

 SD> No, you have to get your head out of your ass and realize that there's
 SD> more to the military than what you see on the liberal media.  You have
 SD> absolutely no right to tell me, an honorably discharged veteran of the US
 SD> Army, what I do or don't know about it.

 SD> I tried to be friendly and take you at face value, but now you insult me
 SD> about serving my country?  Are all of you Swedes fucking idiots or what?

 SD> Don't bother replying.  You've now earned a permanent place in my twit
 SD> filter.

 SD> Along with the other European idiots.

 I'm sorry you fell that way.

First, why does your opinion differ from Franks about taking pics while in a
war?
And I have never heard that it's OK to take pics in a war besides the ones that
are official wartimes photographer and that one of your own military in Iraq
have
confirmed that.
And why you haven't heard of it is perhaps that it wasn't a problem  in Wietnam
or
Korea or whatever, they saw etween the fingers with it then since you wasn't
able
to publish 'em.
Now they know it's possible to publish 'em within minnutes so they have to deal
with it.
Just think about how it would look like if every American soldier did publish
their
pics, dead Iraqis spread all over the ground. What would the Islamic answer to
that
be?
What would USA say if pics of dead American soldiers were published before
their
family even knew the were dead.
Now, please, think about this and then tell me again if you think I'm an idiot
or not
and that this might explain why it's not allowed to take any personal pics.

I hope you don't as well live by the Rules:

Rule #1. I'm right, I'm always right, whatever anyone else says, it's not even
open
               for a discussion.

Rule #2. If I'm wrong, or even might be wrong or even proven wrong, see Rule#1.

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