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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
You must be  , you can't tell the difference between a BB gun and an AK47.
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Not stoned at the moment, however those were not BB guns, so perhaps it is you that cannot tell the difference. Or maybe
YOU are stoned...
I used to shoot real guns with live ammo when I was in the Boy Scouts. So to suggest that Boy Scouts only shoot BB guns to get their Rifle and their Shotgun merit badges is absolutely incorrect.
I was simply pointing to the folly of your post, since any photo of kids holding guns can be misinterpreted, and propaganda is fabricated and used all the time to manipulate public opinion by demonizing the enemy.
Example:
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A newswire story about the U.S. Army's plans for an occupation of Iraq quotes Maj. Gen. H.L. "Buz" Altshuler, commander of the Army's Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, who would be in charge of rebuilding postwar Iraq:
Altshuler tells the story of civil affairs troops during the Vietnam War conducting a campaign in contested territory to vaccinate children against common diseases.
"As soon as our guys left," said Altshuler, who served two combat tours in Vietnam, "the guerrillas came in and cut the arms off every kid that'd been vaccinated.
"So security is critical. Somebody has to go in and take care of the bad guys. I have no problem with that."
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The major problem with that story is that it just isn't true.
Most likely, the General was confused by this famous scene from Apocalypse Now:
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We'd left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and
this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't say.
We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated
arm. There they were in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember,
I...I...I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my
teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember
it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I
realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond, a diamond
bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, 'My God, the genius
of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete,
crystalline, pure! And then I realized they were stronger than me
because they could stand it.
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Anyway, while you all continue with this insightful debate, I shall go hit my vaporizer now. The next post I make will be made while I am stoned...
ADG