Comments on: Reaper + Hellfire = Deadly Stare – the Next Surge in Iraq http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:16:58 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567694 Adie Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:45:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567694 <p>i keep seeing a steady parade of incidents reported in the news, briefly of course (damitall!), about families, kids, wedding parties, ordinary busses carrying innocent civilians, houses with sweet innocents who thought they could escape the mayhem by moving away from their former home… bom*ed to smithereens by these dreadful weapons.</p> <p>you say the high poohbah in charge is pleased.</p> <p>i think he’s rotting from inside out.</p> <p>he’s just too intentionally numbed to feel any responsibility.</p> <p>that’s what standing back and playing with dangerous toys can do.</p> <p>it removes identity, and the soul as well.</p> <p>dr. strangeluv, meet so-&-so, yer spawn.</p> i keep seeing a steady parade of incidents reported in the news, briefly of course (damitall!), about families, kids, wedding parties, ordinary busses carrying innocent civilians, houses with sweet innocents who thought they could escape the mayhem by moving away from their former home… bom*ed to smithereens by these dreadful weapons.

you say the high poohbah in charge is pleased.

i think he’s rotting from inside out.

he’s just too intentionally numbed to feel any responsibility.

that’s what standing back and playing with dangerous toys can do.

it removes identity, and the soul as well.

dr. strangeluv, meet so-&-so, yer spawn.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567683 Adie Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:35:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567683 <p>Very late here & haven’t read comments, since sick kitty needs my attn soon.</p> <p>But, that reaperthingie. It isn’t shaped like a boomerang by any chance, is it?</p> <p>It’s impossible to keep up with the curses booshcheeney have loosed on the world. May they have many many sleepless nights into eternity.</p> Very late here & haven’t read comments, since sick kitty needs my attn soon.

But, that reaperthingie. It isn’t shaped like a boomerang by any chance, is it?

It’s impossible to keep up with the curses booshcheeney have loosed on the world. May they have many many sleepless nights into eternity.

]]> By: Jesterfox http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567651 Jesterfox Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:03:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567651 <p>Wait a minute. I’ve got a son in Kirkuk. What’s happening there?</p> Wait a minute. I’ve got a son in Kirkuk. What’s happening there?

]]> By: jhill123 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567538 jhill123 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:33:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567538 <p>Does this mean the work of the Airforce can be outsourced to Halliburton or Blackwater seeing as it doesn’t require actual pilots? Provides some cover as contractors aren’t actually responsible for any ‘accidental’ deaths if the wrong target were bombed.</p> Does this mean the work of the Airforce can be outsourced to Halliburton or Blackwater seeing as it doesn’t require actual pilots? Provides some cover as contractors aren’t actually responsible for any ‘accidental’ deaths if the wrong target were bombed.

]]> By: lilysmom http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567325 lilysmom Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:46:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567325 <p>That bothers me, too. </p> <p>To the guys who are participating in this, this is just another version of some online MMPOG, Battle Dawn, Gindis Army Commander, WOW, you name it.</p> <p>They can’t envision that they are causing great human suffering or that maybe they are wrong. So removed and amoral.</p> That bothers me, too.

To the guys who are participating in this, this is just another version of some online MMPOG, Battle Dawn, Gindis Army Commander, WOW, you name it.

They can’t envision that they are causing great human suffering or that maybe they are wrong. So removed and amoral.

]]> By: ratfood http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567180 ratfood Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:38:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567180 <p>I agree it is a disturbing trend, although I don’t think a point will ever be reached where the human loss and devastation of war will be completely one-sided. If nothing else, enemies will be made and they will strike back sooner or later.</p> <p>Having said that, as a nation we have already reached an alarming stage of emotional detachment. I refer to the relative complacency of those without friends or family serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Sure most people are unhappy that we’re still in Iraq but not enough to <em>demand</em> an end to the occupation. Even worse, to date the presidential candidate who says we won’t leave until we win but can’t define victory is polling (roughly) even with the candidate who says he’ll get us out.</p> <p>over and out (for tonight)</p> <p>rf</p> I agree it is a disturbing trend, although I don’t think a point will ever be reached where the human loss and devastation of war will be completely one-sided. If nothing else, enemies will be made and they will strike back sooner or later.

Having said that, as a nation we have already reached an alarming stage of emotional detachment. I refer to the relative complacency of those without friends or family serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Sure most people are unhappy that we’re still in Iraq but not enough to demand an end to the occupation. Even worse, to date the presidential candidate who says we won’t leave until we win but can’t define victory is polling (roughly) even with the candidate who says he’ll get us out.

over and out (for tonight)

rf

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567142 libbyliberal Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:20:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567142 <p>I keep thinking of narcissistic little boys with their Pentagon toys and the lives in jeopardy are just little toy people. Empathy never got conditioned and cultivated. Patriarchal mindset … power and control and competition and not partnership paradigm of win/win. When all you have is a hammer… everything becomes a “nail.”</p> I keep thinking of narcissistic little boys with their Pentagon toys and the lives in jeopardy are just little toy people. Empathy never got conditioned and cultivated. Patriarchal mindset … power and control and competition and not partnership paradigm of win/win. When all you have is a hammer… everything becomes a “nail.”

]]> By: InnocentBystander http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567137 InnocentBystander Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:16:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567137 <p>I disagree ratfood. Yes, war is horrible, no question. But when only one side experiences the pain and devastation of war, this is transforming. As bad as WW2 was, both sides learned, intimately, the horror and folly of war. Now that we have a technological advantage to wage a war that has no human price to be paid on our side, our perspective and thinking about the humanity of waging war changes….and not for the better. We reduce our ‘enemy’ to cartoon characters on the screen…the ‘game’ can be played over and over with no consequences to be paid by us.</p> I disagree ratfood. Yes, war is horrible, no question. But when only one side experiences the pain and devastation of war, this is transforming. As bad as WW2 was, both sides learned, intimately, the horror and folly of war. Now that we have a technological advantage to wage a war that has no human price to be paid on our side, our perspective and thinking about the humanity of waging war changes….and not for the better. We reduce our ‘enemy’ to cartoon characters on the screen…the ‘game’ can be played over and over with no consequences to be paid by us.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567135 libbyliberal Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:15:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567135 <p>Rachel Maddow says Iraq news on networks is about 2 minutes per week now.</p> <p>Myopic bombing drops. How “cheap” non-American lives are regarded by our government, our media, our populace? How myopic the majority of this country is. </p> <p>‘<br /></p><blockquote>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Edmund Burke</blockquote> Rachel Maddow says Iraq news on networks is about 2 minutes per week now.

Myopic bombing drops. How “cheap” non-American lives are regarded by our government, our media, our populace? How myopic the majority of this country is.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Edmund Burke

]]> By: RonD http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567126 RonD Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:11:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/03/reaper-hellfire-deadly-stare-%e2%80%93-the-next-surge-in-iraq/#comment-1567126 <p>We got better food than you guys, too….:)</p> We got better food than you guys, too….:)

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