quote:Originally posted by Wraith: We also had a referendum in which the majority of those who voted voted for remaining in the UK.
Incorrect, actually. A majority voted for respecting the territory's place in the UK until such a time as a further referendum could be held. Apologies for the nixpicking, but if what you said were true then Herr Paisley would have been dancing in the streets instead of telling good Protestants to fear the coming Papist takeover.
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Tom: Oh, right. Know what you mean about Paisley.
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Or at least a vigorous painful full-cavity court-marshal.
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: I'm all for twatting snipers with 88mm rounds, but, hello? High-rise building, two miles away? Anyone who pinpointed the location - "THAT building, that very specific one over there, WAY over there, thats the one!" could maybe have done with a reality check or two.
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The soldiers signed up for their jobs w/ the expectation that people would be actively trying to kill them. The journalists knew they might get caught by enemy fire, but they shouldn't have had any reason to think US soldiers would fire a tank directly at them because they thought there might have been a single person w/ a gun in their general vicinity.
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Hush, don't tell anyone it wasn't even a writst rocket....
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: The journalists knew they might get caught by enemy fire, but they shouldn't have had any reason to think US soldiers would fire a tank directly at them because they thought there might have been a single person w/ a gun in their general vicinity.
Or to think that a US pilot might have fired on them after mistaking their convoy for a single Iraqi tank.
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Yup. Good thing that Luke Skywalker wasn't trained by the US Military, or he'd have turned right around and blown up Yavin himself.
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What nonsense. Warzone = unhealthy place to be. Any "journalist" who can't figure that out is probably uncapable of feeding themselves, much less reporting on any actual news. I have zero sympathy.
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