Look what the middle soilder is doing

[luvtinayothers]

Yahoo News Photo (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/031117/481/dv11511171658&e=18)

[fishbob]

Apparently the news media has won the respect and admiration of American troops.

[luvtinayothers]

I don't think anyone at the Yahoo news service noticed it...

[WildCat]

Originally posted by fishbob
Apparently the news media has won the respect and admiration of American troops.
Obviously, they're #1 in that soldiers book!

[subgenius]

Ah, the old Hawaiian Good Luck Sign.

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22083&highlight=kenny

[Frank Newgent]

Originally posted by subgenius
Ah, the old Hawaiian Good Luck Sign.

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22083&highlight=kenny

Arrgg. Beat me to it. (http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/captivity/goodluck.html#photo)

[Richard G]

I have a stack of pictures my brother took fighting his way to Baghdad. In almost every picture, the marines are flipping off the camera.

My favorite pic is one of my brother pissing on an Iraqi goverment building.

[UnrepentantSinner]

You mean the guy playing his M-16 like guitar or the guy crashed out leaning against the wall? I don't see where all the excitement is.

[Larspeart]

Poor guys are being exploited by the media. I'd flick off the reporters too.

F--- the media!

[phildonnia]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
You mean the guy playing his M-16 like guitar or the guy crashed out leaning against the wall? I don't see where all the excitement is.

No, the guy to his left practicing a G-major chord without a guitar.

[tedly]

Interesting picture. Perhaps I'm getting into Kremlinology here but....

We keep hearing about how this is a dangerous war zone, and that American efforts at pacification are failing, and that Iraq is full of terrorists angry at the occupiers.

My experience with US troops is limited to liason people posted in Canada, and 70s era soldiers passing through our mess,but ... Those that I saw struck me as professional and competent.

So.

These soldiers are on patrol, taking a break. Either they are totally inept, or they do not consider that they are in a dangerous location.

Does not compute.

[Jocko]

Originally posted by tedly
Interesting picture. Perhaps I'm getting into Kremlinology here but....

We keep hearing about how this is a dangerous war zone, and that American efforts at pacification are failing, and that Iraq is full of terrorists angry at the occupiers.

Au contraire. All I have heard has led me to understand that 90% of the country is relatively peaceful. That would also explain why counterinsurgent raids are only occuring in specidfic neighborhoods, and not nationwide.

My experience with US troops is limited to liason people posted in Canada, and 70s era soldiers passing through our mess,but ... Those that I saw struck me as professional and competent.

So.

These soldiers are on patrol, taking a break. Either they are totally inept, or they do not consider that they are in a dangerous location.

Does not compute.

Do you think photographers are often invited into live-fire zones? Not intentionally.

And imagine you're a US soldier who's just read a week-old copy of the NY Times and found out that we're embarked upon a doomed mission that gets bloodier with every passing day.

I'd flip off the SOB too.