u s army does it again!

[scarface2004]

this is ridiculous!!

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier shot dead a rare Bengal tiger at Baghdad zoo after the animal injured a colleague who was trying to feed it through the cage bars, the zoo's manager said on Saturday.
Adil Salman Mousa told Reuters a group of U.S. soldiers were having a party in the zoo on Thursday night, after it had closed.

"Someone was trying to feed the tigers," he said. "The tiger bit his finger off and clawed his arm. So his colleague took a gun and shot the tiger."

The night watchman said the soldiers had arrived in military vehicles but were casually dressed and were drinking beer.

There was no immediate U.S. comment.

At the tiger's now-empty cage, pools of blood showed that the soldier passed through a first cage intended only for keepers and was standing right up against the inner cage's narrow bars.

Mousa said U.S. officials came to see him on Friday to discuss the incident.

The tiger was one of two in the zoo -- once the largest in the Middle East, today a decrepit collection of dirty cages and sad-looking animals.

In April, U.S. soldiers killed four lions that had escaped from the zoo. Hundreds of other animals were stolen or let loose by looters in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of the Iraqi capital.

[Brucey]

1. It's a jungle out there.

[Sibanetta]

4. Killing the Tiger

How to win friends and influence people!

[IranianDemocrat]

2. I'm not a PETA person but for some reason I feel sorry for the tiger.

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[ShaneGR]

3. I still think it's crap

Good luck trying to drive around drinking beer and wearing civilian clothes in Iraq! hell, good luck finding a beer.

[IranianDemocrat]

5. It's extremely easy to find beer in the middle east.

You don't know what you're talking about.

[wuushew]

9. Apparently there are brand name Iraqi beers

http://www.labolog.cz/giraq.htm

[OneTwentyoNine]

10. Kidding?? Halliburton probably has the damn Beer contract too...

Most likly another 35-50 Million $$$$$$ contract that was handed to them on a no-bid basis.

David

[neuvocat]

6. So, do we still have to support the troops

when they keep pulling this kind of shit?

[carpetbagger]

14. Yeah, we do.

They're going cuckoo. We, as the people of this nation, gave them this war to fight.

However, it requires no additional action on our part at this juncture. We need to support them by attacking the administration's poor supply strategies, poor diplomacy, unrealistic expectations, "control freak" mentality, cowboy talk, and lack of a resolution strategy. We need to support them by protecting their benefits and getting them back home ASAP, even if it means getting on our hands and knees to the UN.

Most of all, we need to support them by providing them with better leadership than what they have now. The problem is not the GI's who lose their marbles. It's the chickenhawks who lie to them. For all the "America's back" from the post-Vietnam dejection BS, you'd think the republicans would learn that the most important lesson is to never, never do that to our soldiers again.

Max (Cleland) Speaks: "Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Too bad you didn't go there when you had the chance."

Yeah, we need to support our troops. Heaven knows their civilian leaders aren't.

[sexybomber]

18. supporting the troops

is demanding that every single one of them be brought home RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

[mistertrickster]

7. Just goes to show you, there's no problem that can't be solved

with a well-aimed bullet--just look at the movies. Where Bush got his foreign policy apparently . . .

[Don_G]

8. The GI's Screwed Up

They were drunk in an Islamic country where alcohol isn't allowed, feeding the animal (something they would smack their kids for in the US), the Tiger didn't like it and the clawee got scared at the Tiger behind the bars of the cage and shot it.

If I were his C.O., I would be "discussing" the incident too.

[aneerkoinos]

11. Well

Iraq is secular country and alcohol is allowed, just like elsewhere in ME and muslim world, with couple of exceptions. Often the booze is offered in teapot to respect some people's religious sentiments. Hypocritical? Sure, but not more than elsewhere.

[Karenina]

12. Perfect.

Invade the tiger's space. Not just his space , go through the "warden's only" door and disturb him. When he reacts like a tiger, KILL HIM. Perfect. Just fucking PERFECT.

[indepat]

13. What penalty would someone get in this country for wantonly killing

a member of a most endangered and protected species? We have a duty to support the troops, but not their outrageous or uncivilized behavior.

[carpetbagger]

16. Appointment to the Texas Public Utility Commission!!!

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/942758

June 14, 2001 Houston Chronicle

"AUSTIN -- Mario Max Yzaguirre, a former Enron executive, was appointed Wednesday by Gov. Rick Perry to the state agency that is overseeing electricity deregulation in Texas. ...In 1989, Yzaguirre was fined $15,000 after pleading guilty to a federal charge of killing a whooping crane while hunting near the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge north of Corpus Christi. "

Oh, yeah, that appointment came a day after Lay gave Perry $25,000.

But the real kicker is that the governor's office removed the conviction from copies of his application.

[dflprincess]

15. Anyone who's dumb enough or drunk enough to try to hand feed

a tiger. Deserves to have their finger bitten off.

[Blue_Chill]

17. Mother fuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God damn that pissed me off.

[UTUSN]

19. 'tain't the "U.S.Army." It Was a Couple of Screwed-up Dudes.

But recent updates in the news listed elephants down to their last several thousand. So, on the whole our whole species has executed the rest. But the dudes in this particular incident ought to get more than just talked-to. But--hey---Shrub and his crew don't pay consequences, so why should anybody else.

[InkAddict]

20. Perhaps the Combat Stress control unit

were undergoing group therapy analysis cause they were stressed out by double-bookings all the time, and their last words to these drunkards were "OK you're under stress; we're all under stress, and I've had to submit your claims one too many times for this these sessions to continue, so I'd be happy to see you in my private practice stateside post-tour, and in the meantime, just loosen up a bit; get some refreshment and exercise to get those endorphins flowin'. You might even want to visualize your fondest childhood dreams for a bit."

OK, one always wanted to feed the animals at the zoo, and one wanted always dreamed of going on safari for the Big Eight.

War is the human at prey!

[wuushew]

21. kick

:kick:

[VOX]

22. This act is symbolic of American imperialism...

Americans come bursting in with a horrific sense of entitlement -- we are by-God above the rules. Our very presence forces the issue with fatal consequences.

How very sad.