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Old 09-13-2008, 03:55 PM  
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Originally Posted by Cherry7 View Post
I have always thought the pilots that fought in the Battle of Britain were brave, they were outnumbered and faced a skilled and experience enemy.

True also for solders fighting the Germans on both fronts.

But when I saw the film "Zulu" I only thought the Zulus were brave, attacking machine guns with spears. I thought the British cowards and murderers.

In war if you have technological superiority, how brave is it to kill the enemy with little risk to ones owns self?

Like the German tanks attacking the Polish cavalry, or the Europeans gunning down the Native Americans.

These are the acts of cowards.

Vietnam is another case, America had technological superiority over the "Gooks" and killed without much risk to themselves. Also where as a Vietnamese prisoner of the Americans would be killed without thought, American prisoners were kept alive to go on to run for President.

So not only was McCain a person who though it was OK to bomb civilians, Vietnamese Men Women and children, he was a coward as well.

Child murdering coward for president anyone?




McCain and buddies at work...



How the Vietnamese POWs were treated...
Picture #2 is the famous Eddie Adams photo shot in Saigon 1968 of a South Vietnamese executing a Vietcong officer in civilian clothes (I?d like to note something important about this image: we misread it all the time. The South Vietnamese officer?s face is largely turned away from the camera, and because the Vietcong officer is in civilian clothes we often image that what we are witnessing is an American soldier?s execution of a civilian. I don?t know if this has been studied at all, but I?m curious to find out if the American public in 1968 accurately understood what they were witnessing after the initial news stories about this execution were aired.) Adams? image appeared in February, 1968 along with a short film shot with a movie camera right next to Adams. Both the image and a segment of the film were shown on NBC nightly news.
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