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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Not to say that the Pentagon is lying, but why would I assume they are the ones telling the truth when anyone else on earth claims they are not?
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No offense, and I applaud your own premium snarkiness, but that anyone out there is making claims that the Pentagon is lying is kind of a weak point. I could easily find just as many people who claim that their fish told them that the Lobster Gods are coming back in a comet to take everyone home. Point being, the claim isn’t that solid, what with the lack of any actual evidence. I would argue, however, that common sense would tell you that battle weary soldiers in the field (who are everyday folks like you and I and everyone else who posts here) would be a little skeptical of a suspicious car rapidly approaching their position, especially when most of the guys over there have lost friends in attacks that began under very similar circumstances.
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
I can just imagine how many trigger-happy car shootings have taken place with less famous vehicle occupants where we never even hear of any dispute. I am not about to automatically discount the one incident high profile enough for the dispute of the military version of events to even become public.
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Do you have any evidence to support such a thinly veiled accusation? Or is the implication that there have been covered-up car snipings just an unfounded opinion?
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
There may never be enough information to determine what exactly happened. The journo claims she was warned by her captors that the U.S. would try to assassinate her. She said she laughed that off .... until the U.S. opened fire on her vehicle and tried to kill her.
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Which is a wild accusation. All reports I have read state that the soldiers fired at the
engine block, which is an obvious attempt to
disable the car. If assassination were the goal, I have no doubt that everyone in the car would be dead, and not much of the car would be left.
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Are assassination plans by the U.S. military a little too black-helicopter for you? If so, I think you're being a bit naive about what goes on in war.
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I have to ask, after reading this, if you have actual, personal military ops experience. Because this statement is pretty loaded. It is just as easy to say that anyone who actually
believes in black helicopter assassinations is being more than a bit paranoid, and that seems to make more sense than what you said.
And again, I really mean no offense. I’m not trying to be adversarial here, and I sincerely respect your opinions. I just can’t help but object to a lot of the things you posted here and also can’t help but suspect that your own stated opinions about the current administration and the situation in Iraq may be coloring your views here, in this instance.