corbettw's Journal: The New York Times is Bunch of Goddamned Traitors

I just learned about this file, hosted on the New York Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/international/20060107_ARMOR_TEXT.pdf

It compiles data from a classified report, detailing the weak spots in the body armor worn by US soldiers in Iraq. It even has complete diagrams, showing where to shoot to ensure a kill.

In other words, this is the perfect training manual for Iraqi snipers.

This is more evidence of the treason that runs rampant on the left these days. And because the assholes in the Bush administration refuse to do anything about it, it's more proof that the powers-that-be on the right don't give a rat's ass about our country any more than the ones on the left do.

Now excuse me, I have to go vomit.

Dang

[Captain Splendid]

So that means the idiots who were more interested in saving money than saving marine's lives must make you want to slit your wrists, huh?

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[corbettw]

I'm at a complete loss. WTF are you talking about?

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[crazyeddie740]

I believe the GP thinks that somebody shortchanged the troops by giving them cheaper body armor. Nope, according to the article based on this report (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/politics/07arm o r.html?ei=5088&en=bff219647cae4821&ex=1294290000), the reason the reason that the armor wasn't better wasn't due to cost considerations. It also looks like the old armor is being replaced at a fairly rapid pace, and it looks like the New York Times is trying to light a fire under the Powers That Be to

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[Captain Splendid]

Sorry. I see hyperbole, I respond in kind.

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[corbettw]

No worries, but there was no hyperbole in my journal entry. I know it's hard to tell, I use it a lot. But not this time. The NYT are chock full of traitors, and the fact that the administration won't do anything to stop them tells me they really don't care about the safety of the country.

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[crazyeddie740]

Just out of curiosity, are you a poli-sci major by any chance?

Islamics must be a bunch of idiots

[Marxist Hacker 42]

If they need The New York Times to teach their snipers that the best place (36% of casualties) to hit a guy wearing body armor is in the head. Come on, isn't this common knowledge? I knew that one back in high school, it's not exactly a state secret.

How stupid would the enemy have to be NOT to shoot at bare skin? Hasn't this been normal since the Crusades?

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[corbettw]

It's pretty difficult to get a headshot at any kind of range, and considering most snipers work from hundreds of yards away, it's damn near impossible. Also, they'd usually want to shoot from behind, to make it easier to hide themselves. Modern helmets cover pretty much all of the back of the head, so knowing where the weak spots are likely to be makes it much easier to get kill shots from the rear.

Sure, this information can be gleaned from a combination of common sense and terrorists sharing information wi

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

It's pretty difficult to get a headshot at any kind of range, and considering most snipers work from hundreds of yards away, it's damn near impossible. Also, they'd usually want to shoot from behind, to make it easier to hide themselves. Modern helmets cover pretty much all of the back of the head, so knowing where the weak spots are likely to be makes it much easier to get kill shots from the rear.

Read the report. The grand majority of kill shots with the armor were head shots. That IS THE primary weak

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[corbettw]

So, you think it's ok for the NYT to make things easier for snipers? What the hell is wrong with you??

The NYT is full of traitors who should be hung from gallows. And anyone who supports them are probably traitors, too. I'm sick of all the PC pussy-footing that goes on these days. People seem afraid to call a spade a spade. Well I'm not. If someone acts to the detriment of my country, they're an enemy, plain and simple. Publishing secret documents is the exact same as handing them over to the enemy, and it

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

So, you think it's ok for the NYT to make things easier for snipers?

I don't think the NYT released any information that makes it easier for snipers- at least, no information that wasn't already available from a million other sources.

What the hell is wrong with you??

What is wrong with me, apparently, is that I don't think terrorists are idiots who have never seen western television. One of those I mentioned, Future Weapons [slashdot.org] broadcast to the world on every sattelite and cable system that carries the Dis

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[corbettw]

If you feel that way- then you need to stop singling out the NYT and include every media company in the business. But if we were really serious about this war and willing to win, we wouldn't be using ground troops. We'd be using nuclear weapons. Because the only way to fight against a genocidal enemy is with genocide, and the best way to accomplish genocide is to eliminate a defined area from human habitation for the next several centuries.

Oh I do, I'm just talking about the NYT in this conversation. But yo

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

You can't win a war without ground troops, though. You can bomb a nation into ruin, but you don't own that land until an 18 year old with a rifle stands there and says you own it. But we should have sent in a million troops into Afghanistan and Iraq, not just a few hundred thousand. And if we couldn't raise a large enough army without resorting to a draft to defend ourselves, our families, and our way of life, then we probably should lose the war.

I don't want us to own it. I want it to stand as a memoria

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[Captain Splendid]

And I definitely agree with needing to go to genocide to wipe out Islam. We should've given the entire Islamic world a "convert or die" option on September 12th, and then backed it up by nuking Mecca on September 13th.

Geez, if you need violence to get hard, why don't you just go beat on homeless people to get your fix?

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Geez, if you need violence to get hard, why don't you just go beat on homeless people to get your fix?

Maybe because it's solving the problem that gets his rocks off rather than needless violence? Nuking the Kabba removes the *entire* reason for the Islamic Revolution, thanks to a wierd quirk in the prophecy of the 12th Imam. In what way does beating up homeless people end the Islamic Revolution?

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[corbettw]

Exactly. And I love the way some people throw out complete nonsense like that, implying that the only reason that someone would advocate violence is out of a sick perversion. There are genuinely legitimate reasons to favor violence as a method to a solution, and to equate that realization with a sexual fetish says a lot more about the person making that connection than it does about the person advocating violence.

That said, it is fun to mess with people like that. Just throw out all kinds of garbage at them

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[corbettw]

why don't you just go beat on homeless people to get your fix?

What makes you think I don't?