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I have read it, particularly this harrowing line:

"He went back and emptied a clip even though he had shot her twice in the head."

That's my point - who knows what the pressure of being shot at, sniped at, day in, day out does to ordinary soldiers?

Say for example's sake that you're Soldier A who has to man a checkpoint every day when you're doing so in the knowledge that your mate Soldier B was blown up and killed doing the exact same job. That is, without dobt going to fuck with your rational thought process.

Have you served in the military? (I'm guessing yes).

When you talk of headhunters in Iraq - do you mean that literally, as in those who cut the heads off their hostages?

Yes, those are the headhunters I'm on about, after all, every day they see their families ripped apart by allied bombings and bullets.

If you are that fucked up as a soldier, you should be out.
It's not a case where they don't spot the signs.

Fuck what the papers political stance is.
You can't go shooting the messenger every time a story you don't agree with comes up.

if it was an isolated incident, I would jusr, barely understand your point.
It isn't, so I don't.

I doubt you'll find many backers to your psychological analysis.

"what is 'acceptable' behaviour in war?"

Good point. I can't get my head around the relatively modern concept of some ways of waging war being acceptable and other ways being unacceptable. Like all the bollocks recently from various bleeding hearts about the RAF's bombing of Dresden in WW2 being so dastardly. It's a fucking war! Bad things happen, that is the whole point! That's the rules!

Are soldiers expected to lay dying and console themselves that the enemy could have blown the fuck out of them in a less acceptable manner?

If this guy did act as was reported in the Grauniad then I can only assume he was completely insane.

Its about time both sides woke up

Violence begets violence

I wonder wether these 2 peoples are so far down the track to ever see the light of day given that this conflict has been going on for thousands of years
not just since the 20th century

cheers
B....OZ

i lived in Israel for 7 years and had many friends in the IDF.Israelis are all very intelligent and well educated.but to a man without exception they think the Arabs are subhuman scum and i am sure not one of them gives a fuck about killing a little girl.it is no wonder the Palestinians resort to suicide bombings.and before anyone slates me i have had friends killed in suicide bombings.Israelis are the most racist arrogant people i know.they think they are above all non jews and Arabs and blacks are bottom of the pile.Ariel Sharon described the Palestinians as cockroaches.but they remain omnipotent as they are bankrolled by America and can stick 2 fingers up to international opinion.some of the sanctions that saddam hussien broke that Bush and Blair used as justification for thier illegal war were starting wars with his neighbours,using torture on political prisoners,having wmd's and refusing to let international observers inspect them.Israel is guilty of all these and loads more violations but have the jewish lobby behind them in Washington.just remember that the next time Israel invades the west bank destroying property and killing hundreds of people and one of thier spokesman is on the telly saying poor little Israel needs to defend itself because it is surrounded by big bad neighbours and because of the holocaust in ww2

Totally fucking agree with you bro.
All the way.

Remember kiddies, Israel has broken more UN regulations than Iraq ever did, but the NeoCon lobby wasn't looking.

recall n.ireland in the 70s the kids throwing stones at the soldiers.

watch bbc2 at 9 o clock tonight.it is about Israel gaining independence through a terrorist war which included blowing up civillians,hanging British soldiers and killing children

The only solution to the problem is for the rest of the world to nuke the US and Israel... then we might have peace!

thats a hard solution bob the americans are our allies.