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shadowmayor

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23. Selective outrage

Sat Feb 7, 2015, 03:54 PM

Feb 2015

Nasty is nasty, evil is evil no matter the perpetrator. Srebrenica, the slaughter of Muslims? The crushing of Fallujah? Where was our outrage?

The DoD made loads of promotional videos as did others paid by the DoD and America for the most part cheered wildly. Try some You Tube videos of Let the Bodies Hit the Floor or vids of tanks or bombs or firefights. I'm not talking about home-made one-offs. There are plenty with some serious production levels that were used to promote our invasion, occupation, and crushing of the Iraqi people.

The opening night of the invasion on March 19 was shown over and over on American TV. Some of us were horrified. Many of us cheered. Too many of us loved every bloody minute of it - the flames, the smoke, the explosions. But almost never the mangled masses and pools of blood. All by design.

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Cut the crap! [View all] whatchamacallit Feb 2015 OP

Yep, and lets remember who created ISIS, George W Bush and Richard Cheney NoJusticeNoPeace Feb 2015 #1

Yes, the same folks who want us over there forever. n/t whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #2

Simple solution S I M P L E NoJusticeNoPeace Feb 2015 #5

don't forget Reagan napkinz Feb 2015 #35

Act hastily meaning get involved with the military treestar Feb 2015 #3

Instant outrage syndrome is mainly harmless on comment boards, it is idiotic in real life. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #4

The problem is that the idiots in real life will act more quickly and irrationally if they Cleita Feb 2015 #38

So what do you suggest we do? B2G Feb 2015 #6

I'm not sure yet whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #9

This: redgreenandblue Feb 2015 #11

You did not deserve ths scorn you got there, btw. - nt KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #32

There seems to be an opinion that ISIS is spreading these allegations of atrocities Cleita Feb 2015 #42

Good rant. And I for one am getting tired of seeing duers who either won't acknowledge dissentient Feb 2015 #7

No just no Egnever Feb 2015 #14

The difference being whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #18

LOL Egnever Feb 2015 #20

No I haven't watched it whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #22

As I said above Egnever Feb 2015 #27

And again no one makes the comparisons to excuse ISIS whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #41

Then what is the point in your mind? Egnever Feb 2015 #43

Most people in this thread had no problem understanding the meaning of the OP whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #45

So you cant spell it out Egnever Feb 2015 #47

I did spell it out whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #56

No you didn't, you used the bandwagon fallacy treestar Feb 2015 #62

Did you watch the video Chelsea Manning released that was supposed to be kept secret? zeemike Feb 2015 #51

Couldn't help but see it Egnever Feb 2015 #52

It is not odd at all. zeemike Feb 2015 #53

Then maybe they should? treestar Feb 2015 #63

Well I don't give permission for them to do it. zeemike Feb 2015 #64

Selective outrage shadowmayor Feb 2015 #23

LOL I am quite sure you can go back in DU history Egnever Feb 2015 #25

It's a bit complicated shadowmayor Feb 2015 #26

I am glad you made it out safely Egnever Feb 2015 #28

Thank you for your acts of resistance. You can never know for sure, but it's entirely possible KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #33

Good post, thank you. Whenever we are shown a few of the massive number of atrocities sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #37

Well said. K&R Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #8

Not sure how you reconcile that. Egnever Feb 2015 #10

Yes, most of the time nothing was done whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #12

Still not clear what you are saying Egnever Feb 2015 #13

Your mind is captured and locked whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #16

Germane to what? Egnever Feb 2015 #17

No only you think that whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #19

Bullshit. What "analogous acts" compare to beheadings glorified on video? great white snark Feb 2015 #30

Sigh. How about Abu Ghraib? You are aware, I trust, that there are credible reports of U.S. KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #34

But there's no video being stuffed up our asses whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #40

And it was condemned and rightfully so. Egnever Feb 2015 #44

It doesn't whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #46

Perceive what? Egnever Feb 2015 #48

And they are being condemned whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #55

Are you sure your post was intended for me? Because I was responding KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #54

All this talk of justifying and condoning flying around here whatchamacallit Feb 2015 #36

Why do *we* have to do anything beyond what we are already doing? PotatoChip Feb 2015 #29

Everyone should be doing something about it. Egnever Feb 2015 #31

Amen Brother(or Sister)! 99Forever Feb 2015 #15

When we torture and kill civilians, it is for a good cause. See the difference? whereisjustice Feb 2015 #21

So we read, and we watched, all the specially selected news... Electric Monk Feb 2015 #24

Allow Gandhi to provide the correct perspective: KingCharlemagne Feb 2015 #39

meanwhile, boko haram has burned over a dozen to death. pansypoo53219 Feb 2015 #49

Also, they don't haveoil. Eom Cleita Feb 2015 #50

That's the thing, exactly. MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #57

Bingo! Scuba Feb 2015 #58

Nigeria does have oil treestar Feb 2015 #61

Yeah, it's Africa Prism Feb 2015 #65

Makes one wonder about the motives of those who make such arguments. Scuba Feb 2015 #59

kick napkinz Feb 2015 #60