Whoa there mama!I'm not tarring all soldiers with the same brush, and certainly not slagging off the troops per se. I certainly couldn't do their job. The dude with this on clearly needs to engage his brain though.
Or at least the subby who let this get into the magazine needs to check the pics more thoroughly.
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Sun 7 Mar 2010, 15:25,
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Or at least the subby who let this get into the magazine needs to check the pics more thoroughly.
Oh, I wasn't saying you were old chap What What :D
Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Sun 7 Mar 2010, 15:26,
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It's interesting how any criticism of a British soldier has to be prefaced with an explanation of how you respect what they do. They're people who signed up to be paid for either killing people or using the threat of such to get what they want. Usually for the sake of some big business interest. Not trying to be all serious like, but what planet do people assume that someone whose job is killing would "engage their brain" before making a racist comment. Dehumanizing your enemy is one of the first steps toward putting a bullet in them, not some later stage that only the evil and ignorant reach.
Woah - I got heavy. Sorry. Just the brainless hypocrisy of the media winds me up sometimes. So the BBC is all up in arms about a soldier being racist. Same soldier shoots someone dead, it wont be a mention. Sense of perspective is FUCKED in this country.
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Sun 7 Mar 2010, 18:01,
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Woah - I got heavy. Sorry. Just the brainless hypocrisy of the media winds me up sometimes. So the BBC is all up in arms about a soldier being racist. Same soldier shoots someone dead, it wont be a mention. Sense of perspective is FUCKED in this country.