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Why should climate deniers get hurricane aid?
Climate change deniers are like science deniers. If yo deny science then you shouldn’t get medical attention when you are sick. Fuck em, they re on their own. They deserve it.
The question - why should we treat terrorists well, when they DON'T treat us well - is asked here all the time..
The answer is, we act like Americans because we're AMERICANS
No it isn't you goddamned lunatic. Americans are among the largest exporters of mass scale terrorism in the entire world. When the military invaded Iraq, civilians were raped, tortured and killed, and the water and power supplies were cut (in some cases for up to 6 months). Americans are shielded from all other opinions except American opinions, and so most of them have no idea they are considered terrorists by most of the rest of the world. Your culture exists in a sandbox.
Well now. Those are pretty serious accusations. Got any proof?
Sorry Nazi, but yes I do have proof. You should probably just stfu and continue reading Mein Kampf. Leave serious discussion to adults. Why don't you entertain yourself by using sock accounts to give your ignorant ramblings more fake upvotes? There's a good lad.
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings involved the gang-rape and killing of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family by United States Army soldiers on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Others of al-Janabi's family killed included her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi.
According to your source, the perpetrators were “Charged with the crimes of rape and murder”, which undermines your implication that these soldiers were acting ad soldiers or as anything other than the criminals their Army recognizes them to be. Go ahead and pick out other isolated incidents and I’ll go ahead and point out the criminal convictions.
Also, everything you say is a lie because you are literally Hitler.
Well now. Those are pretty serious accusations. Got any proof?
Sorry Nazi, but yes I do have proof. You should probably just stfu and continue reading Mein Kampf. Leave serious discussion to adults. Why don't you entertain yourself by using sock accounts to give your ignorant ramblings more fake upvotes? There's a good lad.
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings involved the gang-rape and killing of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family by United States Army soldiers on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Others of al-Janabi's family killed included her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi.
According to your source, the perpetrators were “Charged with the crimes of rape and murder”, which undermines your implication that these soldiers were acting as soldiers or as anything other than the criminals their Army recognizes them to be. Go ahead and pick out other isolated incidents and I’ll go ahead and point out the criminal convictions.
Also, everything you say is a lie because you are literally Hitler.
That's one incident. How many others did the same thing? You made it sound like it was a common occurrence. So, how many American soldiers raped and murdered civilians? Give us some statistics. Also, show me just one armed conflict where it didn't happen. You can't.
Incident? Well, that's a nice way of describing the gang rape and murder of a 14 year old girl and the execution of her entire family, including her 6 year old sister.
You made it sound like it was a common occurrence.
You are trying to make it sound like it was not a common occurrence.
How many others did the same thing?
We'll probably never know the exact numbers, but IraqiBodyCount.Com puts the documented violent civilian deaths as a result of the US invasion between 182,078 and 204,334.
So, how many American soldiers raped and murdered civilians?
You've already asked this question once. I sincerely doubt the perpetrators of the Mahmudiyah killings would have been quite so bold were this type of behaviour not common. They made very little effort to hide their crime. I also sincerely doubt this particular little girl was the only one they raped. Rather, this was simply the one they got caught for. The US military purposefully taught its soldiers to dehumanise the Iraqis and that is precisely what happened. Indeed, the perpetrators of this particular crime admitted as much.
I think I should stop now because to be honest your attitude nauseates me. Footage of Americans executing civilians was uploaded to Wikileaks and other rogue websites precisely because American media would never, ever, in a million years, permit its citizens to believe American soldiers are not the good guys.
I sincerely doubt the perpetrators of the Mahmudiyah killings would have been quite so bold were this type of behaviour not common.
The perpetrators were charged with rape and murder. You will find there are criminal charges for all such criminal acts by American military members. That’s because the US military is not the evil force you pretend they are. It’s a pretty transparent farce to pretend that military acts of war are the same as acts of terrorism.
You might as well ask what non-military career kills the most civilians and then determine that police are a world wide death cult.
Everything you say is a lie because you are literally Hitler.
You will find there are criminal charges for all such criminal acts by American military members.
That is quite literally the most stupid fucking claim I have ever heard come out of the mouth of anybody in almost 40 years of life. How apt that it comes from a notorious liar who continues to argue that the Iraq War was legal.
Firstly, you would have to be omnipresent to know that all crimes committed by the US military result in criminal charges. Hence, you claim knowledge which only God could possibly have.
Secondly, law enforcement does not effectively operate inside international warzones, you pathetically narcissistic retard. There is literally no police force present to reprimand US soldiers for crimes they commit out in the field, making your initial claim just that little bit more deranged.
Thirdly, your claim is demonstrably false, proven by, among countless other things, the very Wiki footage mentioned in the post you replied to:-
Classified U.S. military video showing a 2007 attack by Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, was released on Monday by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption.
“Well it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle,” one of the U.S. fliers said.
No criminal charges were filed and Reuters had to threaten the US government with a lawsuit just to obtain a copy of the footage of their employees being shot dead.
You're a fucking dirty little liar who would deny the nose on his own face if he thought it would make Conservatism look good. Go fuck yourself, you horrible fascist Jew.
you would have to be omnipresent to know that all crimes committed by the US military result in criminal charges.
No, I merely have to be able to point out charges for every example you come up with. Examples that you don’t provide can’t be assumed to have occurred. If you’re able to provide an example, it means the crime was discovered. Do you know what the US military does when they discover a crime? They prosecute it. Thus, Every example you can provide is likely to have charges associated with it. If you are able to find the criminal who went unpunished, it will only be an exception which proves the rule.
law enforcement does not effectively operate inside international warzones
This has literally nothing to do with what I said.
Concerning the Apache attacks, you said No criminal charges were filed. That’s because a criminal act had not occurred. Insurgents had been engaging US troops from that position that day, so the troops called in the Apaches. The Apaches targeted a group of men in that location because some of them were armed. They also targeted a secondary position from which insurgents were firing as well as firing on the parties who assisted them. In that group were two Reuters reporters and in one of the vehicles were two children. That’s not murder, that’s war.
Reuters had to threaten the US government with a lawsuit just to obtain a copy of the footage
“How do we reveal the atrocities of the most murderous terrorist nation on the planet? Threaten them with a lawsuit.”
The fact that this will works undercuts your argument.
Go fuck yourself, you horrible fascist Jew.
I always get a bit of a kick when you squeal like this. You are so utterly impotent.
Also, everything you say is a lie because you are literally Hitler.
I really don't care what you think. I don't care what some obviously biased website says about civilian casualties It is not the policy of the US government to rape and kill civilians. It is also not the doctrine of the US military. These are the acts of individuals. Nothing more. And it is not nearly as common as you claim.
The answer is, we act like Americans because we're AMERICANS... And, we do it whether our adversary deserves it or not..
Well said.
Mostly.
I agree that ideas and beliefs are not qualifiers for participation in any aspect of America, nor to have access to any benefits of being an American.
However, I disagree that people who are skeptical that the hurricanes are the result of climate change (or even that there are more hurricanes now than a century ago) or that people are the cause of climate change are the adversaries of the people who think there are more hurricanes now than previously, and that people are the cause of the climate change (despite the fact that the Anthropogenic Climate Change hypothesis remains unproven.)
The only way science can work well is that some people try to disprove a hypothesis, and some people try to prove the hypothesis. Without both sets of people and expectations, the scientific process does not work reliably.
Believers and skeptics NEED each other. The two groups are not adversaries, but allies.