August 15, 2008
— Ace Gee, I seem to remember cries that the US was deliberately assassinating journalists in Iraq when one journalist got hit at extreme range by a stray bullet (which wasn't even necessarily fired by US troops!).
And yet... at a checkpoint, in this must-watch video, Russian troops open full-auto fire at an SUV which I have to imagine looked nothing like a tank.
And no caterwauling. No rebuke for Russia. No claims that Russia is deliberately targeting journalists -- which would be a supportable charge, given the fact Putin has been on a murder rampage against reporters who say bad things about him for years.
Why is that, do you think?
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Maybe there's an unusually long line at the nail salon and they just haven't gotten to it yet.
You ever think of that Mr. Racist?
Posted by: runninrebel at August 15, 2008 02:15 PM (qAMnO)
Posted by: Jason at August 15, 2008 02:16 PM (3rI4o)
Posted by: William Amos at August 15, 2008 02:16 PM (VUgv4)
BTW is this video below where a journalist was killed in Georgia
http://williamamos.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/russias-war-on-the-press/#comments
Posted by: William Amos at August 15, 2008 02:20 PM (VUgv4)
Posted by: Trollhammer at August 15, 2008 02:20 PM (wph9V)
Russian troops suck ass.
Not only shouldnt they have fired, having fired, they couldnt even kill their targets in a soft-skinned vehicle.
Posted by: Christoph at August 15, 2008 02:25 PM (hawOV)
Posted by: sherlock at August 15, 2008 02:28 PM (N7uu0)
Posted by: Beaten MSM Bitch at August 15, 2008 02:33 PM (ltwze)
Posted by: The Main Stream Media at August 15, 2008 02:37 PM (kKO7A)
Were I a betting man though...
The narration says that the Turkish journos were enroute from Gori to a village in S. Ossetia. The only Georgian soldiers left in that area are bodies.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 15, 2008 02:37 PM (Ds4I5)
Posted by: Percopius at August 15, 2008 02:42 PM (LrEiX)
Posted by: MSM at August 15, 2008 02:45 PM (1g+FW)
Posted by: Jack Murtha at August 15, 2008 02:46 PM (1g+FW)
Notice how leftist allways side with tyrants that supply oil to the market, and force us to transfer our wealth to them. It's almost like they hate America and want to destroy it or something.
Posted by: Percopius at August 15, 2008 02:48 PM (LrEiX)
Posted by: can't let go of old memes at August 15, 2008 02:50 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: MamaAJ at August 15, 2008 02:51 PM (X6Zdh)
Posted by: Jones at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (KOkrW)
Posted by: dave at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (3J0xV)
Posted by: klrtz1 at August 15, 2008 02:59 PM (lwWCa)
Posted by: Jason at August 15, 2008 02:59 PM (3rI4o)
Posted by: Brad at August 15, 2008 03:04 PM (XWJh5)
Don't expect the anti-war Left to get their knickers in a twist over this either. Don't expect them to march through the streets with placards and slogans with Putin's picture on them. Vice-President of the Stop the War Coallition, speaker at anti-war demonstrations, and all-round short-arse, treasonous Scottish cunt George Galloway said of the Russian invasion of Georgia, 'The Russian army were an awesome sight on the march into the two breakaway Caucasus enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.'
Posted by: Infidelsalwayswin at August 15, 2008 03:06 PM (grY4M)
Usually they are clueless. They say this crap that sounds tough, but if applied wouldn't work in close quarter combat. The science isn't there: The methodology makes no sense.
(I'm not saying they couldn't just hammer you in a fight; sure they could if you let them. I'm talking about a difficult situation like taking down a killer with a knife fast in a closed in situation without getting hurt.)
Now, their special forces, I ASSUME are trained better. I have no intention of finding out.
Just saying these ex-Russian army types that talk about what they would do in x situation appear to have been badly trained. I have no reason to believe their fire discipline is any better, and the above video gives me reason to believe it's worse.
Posted by: Christoph at August 15, 2008 03:11 PM (hawOV)
Posted by: grc at August 15, 2008 03:12 PM (h4JIA)
Posted by: William Amos at August 15, 2008 03:13 PM (VUgv4)
I mean, who are we to judge? One time, this low level group of reservists made some prisoners put panties on their heads.
Posted by: Techie at August 15, 2008 03:18 PM (sPuBs)
Maybe Obama is on to something with his civil defense corps. We could send them up against the Russians, and they could make peace by sticking flowers or their dicks into the barrels of the Russians' guns or mouths.
We could send shitloads of C-5's full of hippies over there to sort things out, and it would be a great use of expendable resources, no?
Posted by: sherlock at August 15, 2008 03:18 PM (ojW85)
Posted by: grc at August 15, 2008 03:18 PM (h4JIA)
Posted by: bob hussein dole at August 15, 2008 03:20 PM (4GS1g)
Posted by: Reuters at August 15, 2008 03:27 PM (zAvxs)
Posted by: Dr. Watson at August 15, 2008 03:28 PM (1Mq7K)
Why,oh why couldn't that SUV have been carrying Wolf Blitzer, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews and few of the other news schmucks. It is time for us to get a lucky break.
Chuck
Posted by: Chuck at August 15, 2008 03:37 PM (sabSe)
This kind of stupidity inevitably gets paid for in blood.
Posted by: J. Wilde at August 15, 2008 03:38 PM (ucJiT)
Sorry, I only accuse American soldiers of murder. No political advantage in confronting the Russians about any thing given today's media.
"Besides, futzing around with the Rooskies can make one real dead real quick. They really are what I accuse the U.S. troops of being."
Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at August 15, 2008 03:38 PM (uw+0A)
Posted by: Techie at August 15, 2008 03:47 PM (xallF)
That would be called using a the right tool for the right job.
Armored fighting vehicle or tank coming at you? RPG/LAW+.
SUV full of journalists? Machine gun.
Posted by: Dallas County Commissioner at August 15, 2008 03:53 PM (wyUSq)
Posted by: Timothy Watson at August 15, 2008 03:55 PM (wyUSq)
They are simply gutless cowards -- too scared of reality to admit to themselves that the Russians or the Moslems or anybody else is actually evil.
Instead, the Russkis, Al Quada, Red Chinese, Moslems, muggers, et cetera ad infinitum are simply responding reasonably to the historic oppression imposed upon them by the EEEEVIL WESTERN OPPRESSORS.
We simply need to give them foreign aid, withdraw from Iraq, disarm our nukes, disestablish our military forces, rescind the 2A, and cut-off our testicles. Then they will be our friends -- or at least they'll kill us last.
Modern liberalism is a mental disorder -- but is curable by a 7.62x51mm enema.
Posted by: deMontjoie at August 15, 2008 03:57 PM (D4bPm)
Chuck @ #32:
No. The problem is that Keith and Chrissy would become martyrs for the liberal cause. We would never hear the end of it. Let them play out their viability and be done with it.
Posted by: noprisoners at August 15, 2008 04:03 PM (eqMup)
Not coincidentally, it's also how they handle democratic minded eastern Europeans.
Posted by: ThomasD at August 15, 2008 04:05 PM (21H5U)
Posted by: Vlad Putin at August 15, 2008 04:16 PM (Ub4J5)
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at August 15, 2008 05:32 PM (zRr3n)
Posted by: usa at August 15, 2008 06:09 PM (RdBTr)
They've been in the line to give the next Putin his next BJ for a long time, and they don't want to lose their place.
Posted by: Scott Crawford at August 15, 2008 06:10 PM (/9WmP)
And Darwin Awards. Don't forget the Darwin Awards.
Posted by: Scott Crawford at August 15, 2008 06:15 PM (/9WmP)
Posted by: sandy burger at August 15, 2008 06:23 PM (VC56G)
Posted by: Chants at August 15, 2008 06:23 PM (X9+ND)
Posted by: Potosi Joel at August 15, 2008 06:25 PM (TPRbZ)
Posted by: Scott Crawford at August 15, 2008 06:27 PM (/9WmP)
This year, it's all down to the MSM being a monopoly of corrupt, lying assholes.
Kinda related.
Posted by: Merovign at August 15, 2008 06:27 PM (UXoQt)
Posted by: the MSM: at August 15, 2008 06:27 PM (gpv+a)
This year?! With all due respect, Merovign, how old are you?
[Don't bother answering that; it was a rhetorical question.]
Posted by: Scott Crawford at August 15, 2008 06:32 PM (/9WmP)
Posted by: Lorenzo at August 15, 2008 06:39 PM (FeerO)
Staff cuts in the industry demand prioritizing. Clearly you economic brainiacs recognize this.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 15, 2008 06:47 PM (sI5Ho)
Posted by: Penfold at August 15, 2008 06:48 PM (mKeF6)
Posted by: Vmaximus at August 15, 2008 07:16 PM (7xxUA)
Leftists are NOT afraid that their American political opponents will put a cap in their asses.
Leftists KNOW that other Leftists who run 3rd world shit holes will cap their asses.
Leftists understand violence.
That's why they're so comfortable with fascism.
(Fascism which is ever descending on America but somehow always manages to land in Europe.
Stuff I Stole From Famous People Who Said It First, Volume IV)
Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 15, 2008 07:17 PM (e321h)
Posted by: hutch1200 at August 15, 2008 07:26 PM (wl9X6)
Posted by: michelle1200 at August 15, 2008 07:28 PM (wl9X6)
Posted by: Keith Olbermann at August 15, 2008 07:29 PM (btpzp)
Posted by: bob hussein dole at August 15, 2008 07:45 PM (4GS1g)
Posted by: Obi Wan: at August 15, 2008 07:55 PM (gpv+a)
Posted by: sergei at August 15, 2008 08:08 PM (YbUlC)
Infidelsalwayswin: thank you for the poetry of
"all-round short-arse, treasonous Scottish cunt George Galloway"
and for reminding us that GG has been setting the standards for treasonous leftist c**tishness since Gulf War I at least. Sweet how Galloway and so much of the MSM are in sync. Commie hearts beat as one.
Posted by: Erwin Hussein O'Barry at August 16, 2008 01:49 AM (eepJm)
Posted by: Not One of The Nine Adults at August 16, 2008 07:26 AM (rwGZV)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 16, 2008 07:34 AM (0+Ggj)
After the firing had ceased, why are Turkish reporters yelling "journalists, journalists" out the window in English? Why not Turkish or Russian?
Did they just assume it was US Soldiers targeting them for assassination?
Posted by: PineCurtain at August 16, 2008 08:10 AM (E8aPO)
Well, at least you must agree that the South Ossetians are Russians. It was a fight between the Georgians and the South Ossetians that the journalists were interrupting. Now, if the Georgians can recognize who has the allegiance of the South Ossetians as you have....
It's funny how everyone wants to blame this attack on the Russians - it wasn't them, it was the S. Ossetian seperatist militia.
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Posted by: CavMedic at August 16, 2008 10:19 AM (dwmTJ)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 16, 2008 10:59 AM (0+Ggj)
The Russians have fought a nearly defenseless nation, and they haven't done a very good job. I would love to see what the Generals in the Russian military have in their folders that discuss a possible fight with the US Military. If they are rational at all, they know they probably can't beat France or Greece without nuclear weapons.
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