Or maybe it´s not the marriage itself that isn´t safe, it´s the marriage party!
You can´t celebrate your daughter´s marriage anymore, without having a 500kg bomb dropped on your head.
Just as it had happened in Afghanistan a couple of times, now this fresh definition of "colateral damage" has moved to Iraq aswell.
Maybe it´s just one pilot, with a hardon for trashing marriage parties, that just got transfered to Iraq, eh?
Naaah...

Yesterday there were two bits on news that really touched the twilight zone.
First we had the Israelis firing on unarmed demonstrators, wich makes you wonder what their idea of democracy is. Some 30 or more dead, including many young boys, children even.
And then we get almost a photocopy of that in Iraq, where a marriage celebration was cutted short by a few "smart" bombs that weren´t smart enough to figure out it was just a party, and not a full scale rebellion...
Again, the images repeat themselfs:
Dozens dead, but this time there are many more children amongst the dead.
To tell you the truth, it´s not safe to be iraqi or palestinian anymore.
Why marry your childhood sweetheart, if you won´t live long enough to enjoy the wedding night? It´s better to just turn gay and live in Abu Ghraib, where you´ll find "friendly" people just aking to take your panths off! At least the chances of eating a 1000 pound bomb for breakfast is smaller, allthough you might end up swallowing more than you can chew, there aswell...
Why is the US struggling to take away their weapons? Let them keep them! Sooner or later, if things go on like this, they will turn them on themselfs and save the US the trouble. Or not. There´s a good chance they will feed the US a knuckle sandwich, with all the trimmings and hot lead to boot.

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Emperor Augustus of Rome.

right, a wedding. forget old, new, borrowed and blue, what is really important to have at a wedding are a sattelite com system, $2 million in cash, foreign passports and automatic weapons.

the possession of weapons alone makes them combattants and not wearing a uniform makes them illegal combattants. either way, legitimate targets according to international law.

More than 40 are dead, actually, half of them are women and children. I saw the video of the aftermath of the massacre (shot by Associated Press, I think) It showed a truck full of corpses. The bodies of women and children were easy to discern. But surely they were "illegal combatants" too. They just managed to have a sex-change surgery and mysteriously shrink in size in matter of seconds. Right, genius?

It's not the first time a wedding party is slaughtered by the Americans. It happened in Afghanistan too. To the utter surprise of no one at all, the pilots, responsible for this crime, were found not guilty by the court martial.

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from Germany Occupation Booklet 1945
"Don't Be a Sucker in Germany"
(largely still relevant for U.S. troops in Iraq in 2003-2004)

Distributed to 3AD troops in May, 1945, shortly after the German surrender, this 15-page booklet was the 12th Army Group's basic primer for GI's as occupiers. It was then "Restricted" (Classified) info that makes very interesting reading now.

if that really had been a wedding party, then they have qualified themselves for the darwin awards.

Just for the record, it was 2 million DINARS, worth 2800 US dollars.
Big fuckin´ deal!!!
http://www.dinarsforless.com/?src=overture

Automatic weapons exist in Iraq as fleas in a street dog. It´s common. Satellite systems are sold anywhere, you can buy one, that it won´t make a terrorist out of you. After the war, comunications are unexistent. The only way to comunicate was a sat phone. Foreign passports? The site was close to the syrian border, meaning the family is (or shall i say was) spreaded across two or more countries. They had the friggin passports because they came to attend the marriage!! What´s so strange about that?
You think those women and children were syrian fighters in disguise?

BULLSHIT!!

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"Quincitilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
Emperor Augustus of Rome.

amazing spread on the exchangerate, because this quote has 2 million dinars at $6 million.sorry, if you think binding international treaties are bullshit.

There's no point, genius. The media and Europe made up their minds on this before it even happened. No sense in getting into a facts war when the facts are few and wouldn't be important anyway.

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In this country, we don't need reasons to make things legal; we need reasons to make things illegal. - Startup

I'm neither media nor Europe. So, if you have some information, coming from reputable sources, bring it on.

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I´m sorry, but what currency was "seized" again? US dollars? Or was it in dinars? You try taking 2 million dinars and exchange them for US dollars, and then tell me how much you got.
As for international treaties, you of all people should remain silent.
It´s not the International treaties that i think it´s bullshit, it´s your version of the facts.
And bringing in WWII stuff isn´t helping you.
Just why do you call yourself "Genius" again? It´s a bloody mistery to me...

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"Quincitilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
Emperor Augustus of Rome.

Why would I do that? What would it matter? You would still believe what you want to believe.

Besides, I have no more information than you do. Then again, since you have access to so much clandestine information, you probably know more about it than I do.

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In this country, we don't need reasons to make things legal; we need reasons to make things illegal. - Startup