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An American soldier shot and killed a rare Royal Bengal tiger in Baghdad Zoo
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Originally posted by <I Killed Kenny>:
An American soldier shot and killed a rare Royal Bengal tiger in Baghdad Zoo
After drunken party, US soldier kills tiger
Originally posted by Eleison Zeitgeist:
Like all reporting of this sort, this makes the US looks bad... and the reader happy (I'm going to assume http://us.rediff.com is marketed towards Indians)... We all know what the general consensus of Idians.... "Damn those Stupid, Arrogant Americans... look at what they are f*cking up in Iraq now... thank GOD WE are not as stupid as THEM... we Indians may not have the most money, buildings, etc... However, we are smart enough to know that going into IRAQ is a stupid idea... Outside we may not be superior to them, but inside we are superior and thats where it counts.."
Okay enough Ranting :-) However, I doubt the majority of Americans soldiers are getting drunk and parting while they are in IRAQ. My impressions are they just want to do their job and leave...
Originally posted by Donald R. Cossitt:
And your point is...?
What is at fault here?
Alcohol
Parties
Guns
Zoos
Tigers (for getting caught)
U.S. Soldiers
Or are you saying it was not the Alcohol or the gun or... but the person; soldier or not? Hmmmmm Interesting concept.
[ September 21, 2003: Message edited by: Donald R. Cossitt ]
Or are you saying it was not the Alcohol or the gun or... but the person; soldier or not? Hmmmmm Interesting concept.
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Originally posted by Donald R. Cossitt:
And your point is...?
What is at fault here?
Alcohol
Parties
Guns
Zoos
Tigers (for getting caught)
U.S. Soldiers
Or are you saying it was not the Alcohol or the gun or... but the person; soldier or not? Hmmmmm Interesting concept.
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Originally posted by Ashok Krishnan:
I fail to understand how an individual's mistake/stupidity becomes 'America's fault'. After all, there are millions of thick people in this world, and they all belong to one country or the other!
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
EZ: how (we don't even know that its even true; but could be) some idiot soldier killed some tiger...
I disagree. If you read the article, you see that a soldier shot the tiger after the latter attacked and injured his comrade. At this point there was no other choice left. Admittedly, it wasn't too smart to go into a cage, but the soldier only wanted to feed the tiger -- there wasn't anything unfriendly or aggressive in this gesture. What was the need to attack him? I think, the tiger has nobody to blame but himself. Perhaps he was even a Saddam supporter, who knows?
Originally posted by <I Killed Kenny>:
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Joe, do you still want to see more pro-American posts? :roll:
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately, I cannot use it -- I do not wage a war here. Pursuit of knowledge has little to do with taking sides, and more with an ability to "be" on all sides at once.
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Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
Speaking about Bengal tigers, there are currently some discussions regarding "combat pay", from which I learnt that "imminent-danger pay" is now as high as $225 a month. Is this only me who thinks this isn't quite adequate?
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
Speaking about Bengal tigers, there are currently some discussions regarding "combat pay", from which I learnt that "imminent-danger pay" is now as high as $225 a month.
Sounds like a good deal. When I was drafted by the Soviet Army, I was sent to Siberia to guard the prisons. The deal was that if you kill a prisoner who was trying to escape, you get a 2 weeks vacation. If you don't get to kill a prisoner, the standard pay was something like 5 rubbles a month (including the "imminent-danger" pay). It was so damn cold, however (sometimes as low as minus 60 Farenheit), that I would not be able to pull the trigger of my AK-47, -- the finger would simply not bend. Needless to say, I spent the entire 2 years of the draft in the barracks.
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
IKK: Got definitely hated you
Who is "Got", IKK? The "t" and "d" keys are pretty much apart on my keyboard, so I assume it was not a simple typo on your part. Perhaps you have some inner message to communicate?
[ September 23, 2003: Message edited by: Eugene Kononov ]
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
IKK: errrrrrrrrrr Typo, I mean God
Right, good. I don't know, man, -- I prayed on my knees 3 times a day asking God to send me to Afganistan, -- like most young Russians at that time, I sincerely believed that it was my patriotic duty to exterminate the Taliban sympathisers who were supported by Americans in their jihad and resistance against the Soviet occupation. Instead, God sent me to Siberia. Did he love me or hated me? God works in mysterious ways...
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
IKK: Tough choice and thank god that you didn't have to fight Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) that dude killed a lot of russians in afghanistan
Oh, I would kick Sylvester's ass. With God's help, I would fill Rambo's drinking water with blood, invade his tent with frogs, populate his M-16 with locusts, and send thunder and hail on Rambo's head. Do you think Rambo would have the guts to fight against the Alpha and the Omega?
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