U.S. helicopter reportedly kills 40 Iraqis at wedding party
The Associated Press reports that a U.S. helicopter fired on a wedding party early Wednesday in western Iraq, killing more than 40 people, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military said it could not confirm the report and was investigating. Iraqis interviewed on the videotape said partygoers had fired into the air in a traditional wedding celebration. American troops have sometimes mistaken celebratory gunfire for hostile fire.
How to win friends and influence people. This is yet another “not good”.
What in the hell do they think is going to happen? They all get Darwin awards!!! That is just stupid.
How unfortunate. This happened in Afghanistan as well.
Yeah. Dumbasses. Of course you are going to get mowed down if you go to a wedding and celebrate in the traditional Iraqi manner. Duh! We would never do something like that in America.
Iraqi cultural norms = Bad.
America = Good.
ASSIMILATE!
Oh yeah…and give oil to Halliburton.
no, its actually a pretty common thing to do during a celebration in the region.
Lets seeee…I would like “Reasons it seems Iraqi’s are stupid” for $1,000.00 Alex…
If ignorance is bliss you are the happiest man on the forum.
Might I respectfully suggest that the quaint Iraqi wedding tradition of discharging automatic weapons into the air may be temporarily substituted with the chicken dance when Apache helicopters and Spectre gunships are in the area for the safety of the guests.
When a bride considers the things that could go wrong on her special day, an air strike is pretty far down the list.
Ahh. . .so the ENTIRE world should automatically get on board with the U.S. cultural norm. . . I see. . . Apparently I missed the memo that named us WORLD DICTATORS.
Was my sarcasm not apparent from my post?
Might I respectfully suggest that the quaint Iraqi wedding tradition of discharging automatic weapons into the air may be temporarily substituted with the chicken dance when Apache helicopters and Spectre gunships are in the area for the safety of the guests.
When a bride considers the things that could go wrong on her special day, an air strike is pretty far down the list.
Come on now Tom…cant you see that people think that OUR soldiers in the air should check for wedding cake before they return fire from the AK-47 tracers! Sometimes you just cant tell a sniper from a best man. To me this all falls in the “no shit” field…
Iraqi’s : “All we were doing was firing our automatic weapons into the air” (where a US war ship was on patrol) "and they shot us to bits"
American reply: No shit!
Forgive me, I just returned from a brain-deadening meeting. Apparently I didnt’ read your post closely enough. Anyway. . . This incident just further exposes the difficulties we are going to continue to have foisting our plan upon Iraq. It sure as hell makes an already tough job (military) even tougher.
__________________________________
Iraqi’s : “All we were doing was firing our automatic weapons into the air” (where a US war ship was on patrol)
Record10ti,
I think it’s “Gunship” not “war ship.” But that would be funny - a giant sea vessel floating over Iraq. Ha ha ha.
Hell I dont know all the military terms…all I know is they Kick Ass and I am glad they are protecting my ass.
“Traditional Wedding Celebration”? How long have automatic weapons been around? OK, guns, yes, but only for, what, a couple hundred years? What was the tradition before that? Throwing knives in the air? Well, that would result in the same consequence, dead iraquis with knifes sticking out of their heads.
Dumb “tradition”. But, still unfortunate for the innocent causalties.
Chris
Of course this is terribly sad. It is absolutely awful. When I first saw the headline - I thought: didn’t something like this JUST happen? What a tragedy.
Record - in spite of your total apparent lack of empathy, I agree with you. This might be a time to suspend this tradition in Iraq. If only for a little while. But, your posts did make me laugh. Darwin award. Sheesh.
What was the tradition before that? Throwing knives in the air?
Now that was funny.
__________________________________
Iraqi’s : “All we were doing was firing our automatic weapons into the air” (where a US war ship was on patrol)______________________________________
Record10ti,
I think it’s “Gunship” not “war ship.” But that would be funny - a giant sea vessel floating over Iraq. Ha ha ha.
Technically then, shouldn’t we say “GunPlane” 
or, even better, “Gun-0-Copter?” 
Hello,
I’m U.S. citizen.
Yes, I think your tea ceremony is ridiculous.
Yes, I think onion-domes are spawned by Satan.
Yes, please take that stupid plate out of your lip. Its childish. And you are mistreating that plate.
Dude, only children should grovel on mats like that.
You backward-ass folks can’t even spell NASCAR.
Have you got anything on your menu that doesn’t include rice? How about a nice T-bone with a loaded baked potato?
Fuck you and your smelly cheese. We fixed that problem by coloring transfats orange and wrapping them in plastic.
Where in the hell can a man get a supersized fries around here?
Oh MY GOD. . .put some clothes on those people and get 'em off the beach! Sex and sexuality are scary and should be done in the dark!
Who painted those funny black and white spots on yer footballs? It looks like somebody squashed the ends in and made it round!
Hey Jim, did you see all those dudes in the white dresses? Fuckin bunch of cross-dressers!
Somebody tell all these world folks to get with the program or we’ll banish them to the inner cities where we can hide our faces and forget about them!
Sarcasm off.
USA #1