shit...

[SobaViolence]

Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans

Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”

GNN (http://guerrillanews.com/headlines/4660/Troops_begin_combat_operations_in_New_Orleans)

i hold firm that i'd be one of the insurgents. fuck the government.

[yeahwho]

I feel much better now that the army has arrived with the orders "aim to kill".

What type of spin is that? The nuts are running the asylum.

Hurricane relief is hard work.

[Funkaloyd]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22shoot+to+kill%22&btnG=Search+News

[zorra_chiflada]

your links are bullshit.

australia, ireland, india, switzerland.


you're saying that international news agencies don't report the truth, and they're not legitimate at all?
that's a pretty big claim.

[Funkaloyd]

The story is from Army Times, GNN just reprinted it.
Both GNN and Army Times are based in the United States, Mr CNNBCBSistotallyreliableandtrustworthybecauseit'sA merican.
You're right, the Governer never said "shoot to kill". Her words were "shoot and kill".
General Russel Honore isn't General Gary Jones.

[Funkaloyd]

Oh, so I was wrong when I said that they're killing civilians on the streets. Ok.

General Honore is in charge of Joint Task Force Katrina, not Gary Jones...
Aha, and Westmoreland was in charge in Vietnam, not William Calley.

[SobaViolence]

AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/story/24990/)

I'm waiting in waist-deep water outside the Superdome in downtown New Orleans, where it's starting to rain. The streets are much emptier today than they were last night. People have been walking through the water on the highways, and at times sleeping on the highways; two, three day journeys just to walk four miles to the Superdome, just to give you an idea of how difficult it is to get around here.

Right now they're trying to coordinate the evacuation of the Superdome onto buses that, if I understand correctly, are taking people to Houston. It's not going well. The military, police and the national guardsmen are overwhelmed by the number of people. The local New Orleans police are assisting, and it's still not helping.

There are throngs of people, easily in the tens of thousands, maybe forty to fifty thousand people, in my estimation, standing on this plaza trying to get to a very narrow area where they're being escorted to the buses. I haven't seen one bus leave yet.

People are passing out and, you know, you have elderly and children and in some cases kids born two weeks ago. One man was assaulted by a group of people with metal bars for asking for a cigarette. He's semiconscious, very agitated when he is conscious. It's very difficult; they can't do anything for him. Other citizens are just trying to help him out.

[Qdrop]

you people try to paint a picture of the American Govt. killing civilians on the street. this is not happening.

get used to it.
the liberals are gonna have fuckin field day with this.....
it's the new ABU GHRAIB for them.....

[SobaViolence]

i disagree, because now it ain't weird looking arabs, it's americans.


who are you if you don't help your own?

[Princess1987]

i agree that our government is fuckingbullshit,they don't care about us they wouldn't even help there own people , they just live life thinking there god .we may never have a government that cares.

[racer5.0stang]

I think that everyone involved is to blame. Local and federal government. There apparantly never was a clear plan on how to act if something like this happened. When Camille came through in the late Sixties, that should have given the governments plenty of time to create a plan of action. Plus, just because there is a disaster of this magnitude does not give the citizens there the right to arm themselves and shoot at the people who are trying to help them. It is sorry that the military is having to go in ARMED for hurricane RELIEF. Granted it should NOT have taken four days to start getting relief in there, but it is not like these people were picked up and dropped off in a desert. Instead of sitting around chanting we want help, why not help yourselves to a Wal-Mart and get some supplies that are useful NOW and not something that you hope to barter with later like a 50" plasma t.v. What good is a t.v. to barter with gonna do you if no one has electricity to use?

Another thing are the comments by the rapper Kanye West. Why is that everytime something bad or inconvienent happens that some ignorant person has to pull the race card? This has nothing to do with color or race! All it is that the U.S. got caught with its pants down. If you aren't part of the solution, your are a part of the problem. Instead of talking trash a/b the situation, why not go down there and help.

Ok, I'm done. I'll get off my soap box now.

[Funkaloyd]

how many of you even heard of a "levee" before this disaster
Led Zepplin's cover of Memphis Minnie's When the Levee Breaks :)

[QueenAdrock]

Gmsisko, when is a time you have disagreed with the Republicans?

If you can't think of one thing you disagree with them about, you shall be forever branded a SHEEP. There is not one time that some shit has come up against Bush, and you haven't been out there, turning your blind eyes away from the obvious, and waved your shit-covered American flag for Bush. Anytime I hear an opinion from the Whitehouse, it is repeated almost verbatim from your mouth, without any thought or valid interpretation on your part.

List one thing that you disagree with them about.

[QueenAdrock]

It seems the Republicans will not secure our border with Mexico. I strongly believe we need to secure our boarders.
You call me a sheep. I agree with what some democrats believe.
(Zell Miller, Joe Lieberman, exc.)

If you believe Zell Miller is a democrat, you are an idiot. I mean, I know you're an idiot already, but you'd have to be super-retarded to even THINK Miller's a democrat. Motherfucker has a forward by SEAN FUCKIN' HANNITY in his book! Would a real democrat do that? No, but a Republican in disguise would.

Same with Lieberman. Closet republican. Come back when you agree with a REAL democrat, not one in name only.

[QueenAdrock]

HAHAHA okay, and what democratic principals to they follow? Hmmm? What's "democratic" about them, that you agree with?


Can't answer? Poor baby. :rolleyes:

I don't even know why I try to argue with retards anymore. It just degrades myself in the long run, for actually associating with someone with the brain activity of a slug.

[infidel]

It totally baffles me that a person could be so fucking stupid and not be on life support. Terri Shivo looks like a genus compared to gismo.

[Vladimir]

Zell miller spoke at the RNC. Case closed.

[Funkaloyd]

I don't even know why I try to argue with retards anymore. It just degrades myself in the long run, for actually associating with someone with the brain activity of a slug.
Do what everyone else does and focus your arguments on Qdrop.

[Space]

:lol: flaming liberals

[Ali]

Gun control, anyone?

[racer5.0stang]

I don't even know why I try to argue with retards anymore. It just degrades myself in the long run, for actually associating with someone with the brain activity of a slug.

Hey, slugs have rights too. Where's P.E.T.A.?


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[Ali]

I don't even know why I try to argue with retards anymore. It just degrades myself in the long run, for actually associating with someone with the brain activity of a slug.Don't dis the slug, OK? :mad: