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I am supremely choked this morning. Probably every Canadian has seen this in news already, but I doubt this is going to show up much in the American media. One of your fuck-head, ill-trained, trigger-happy soldiers dropped a bomb on us, killing four and seriously injuring eight others. This happened in a training area, not a combat zone. Let's take a look at how we've been treated by the U.S. government over the last few months:
  • First the U.S., taxes the living shit out of our wood simply because we produce it more efficiently, all the while paying lipservice to "Free Trade"
  • Then, after 9-11, Bush completely fails to mention us in his speech despite the fact that we took in all the grounded planes after the airports were shut down and we lost people in the WTC as well, nonetheless we send troops to Afghanistan to help out.
  • Meanwhile, we continue to get shit on over the lumber tariff, and
  • we get threatened with wheat tariffs.
  • The U.S. wrongfully arrests and convicts one of our citizens simply for legally doing business with Cuba (in what is probably some twisted political manoever to try and win the next election in Florida without cheating)
  • Bush just assumes we'll play ball with his energy plans,
  • and he tries to further walk all over our sovereignty (at least we said "fuck off" to this one)
  • and then, we get a fucking bomb dropped on our soldiers!
What does the American millitary have to say about this? How about this:
"We are in a very, very dangerous business," Maj. Bryan Hilferty, a U.S. military spokesman, told reporters at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. "We play with stuff that kills people."
Play? Play?! That's the bloody problem, American soldiers are, generally speaking, badly trained, given a whole crapload of technology, and they think they are playing a damn video game. An incident like this happened in the Gulf War as well, but to the British. Two thirds of British casualties in ground operations in the gulf were caused by Americans. Most American casualties are caused by Americans.

And the Americans wonder why the rest of the world either hates them or sees them as a fucking unfunny joke.

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Date: 2002-04-19 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biok5.livejournal.com
is there a dvd i can rent? or maybe a divx i can dl?

How about a multimedia website?

Date: 2002-04-19 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarrick.livejournal.com
Jump up to this reply (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=mbarrick&itemid=222955#t364523) and click "kicked their ass".

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