A friend of mine claims the following about the Iraq war, please reassure me that it's a complete lie?

Grant M

You dont argue with this guy.. He reminds me of the war haters of us Vietnam Vets who came back to be scorned... No absolutly this did not happen... It would have been all over the front pages.. I mean look what happened to the guards that stacked those naked guys and what was going on at guantanam bay.. IT DID NOT HAPPEN.... and you know it didnt happen cause he wants you to prove it didnt.. Hes a butt head... Grant M in Pennsylvania

ponusjoe42

These kinds of lies are easy to discredit with simple logic. Hundreds of helicopters? That would involve hundreds of crewmen. And not one of them was decent enough to come forward and report it? I'm pretty cynical, but I doubt everybody would keep quite about something that atrocious.

poolplayer

Didn't happen. He may have seen the video of the attack of the Iraqi military convoy on the highway?

Sounds like he's willing to believe most anything anti-American.

And it's a tactic that people with weak arguments use--try to make you prove a negative.

friesismylife

don't argue, he probrably didn't take his meds...

b52gflyer

As Viet Nam era B52 pilot, I can say that this never did happen. There are no targets of opportunity. You only fire at those targets that are assigned to you. There are too many people involved with the movement of one airplane or helicopter to keep that secret. The amount of people who know a secret is increased by the square of that number. If it were true by now congress would have hung Bush.

Don't argue with the idiot. Get a new friend.

jelesais2000

One doesn't argue with this guy, one pities him for his limited intelligence. Praise your friend for grasping such a concept, wipe the drool from his mouth, and tell him he may grow up to be a chimney-sweep or skyscraper window-washer if he really sets his sights on moving up in the world, but don't let him near sharp objects, and count his crayons when he finishes practicing his alphabet.

Ringer Dog

It definitely didn't happen!

We are there to help the Iraquis settle their bloody arguments. Bush is a very nice man and would never let anything like that happen. Did you know that in all the wars and fights we have ever used the army in, this is the battle with the least deaths? Many people don't know this and hate the president for it.

Barbiq

I wouldn't waste my time arguing with him. He has some twisted view of the war in Iraq and really needs to do his own research...he won't believe anything that you present to him.

One of my friends son is just coming home from his second tour over there...and we never heard anything like that at all. The whole war is a waste and a crime...we should be at home taking care of our own. We can only pray that all the men and women over there will be home safe and sound soon.

paul

He is not your friend. Anyone who would spread baseless lies about America is either delusional or unamerican. When you hear anything that hard to believe, don't believe it until you are given a source you can look up. There are so many false stories about our soldiers I can not believe this country is going to survive these radical unamerican idiots.

J.R.

You can't prove something didn't happen. We all know it didn't happen. Your friend is an idiot. It would STILL be on the news if it had happened. CNN and the other liberal media wouldn't let it go.

desertviking_00

Your friend lives in an alternative universe. Get him to adjust his meds. If such an event happened in March of 2003 they would still have talking heads on all the cable news channels foaming at the mouth about it.

Miss De Vill

In war the laws are silent - Latin proverb
"All great truth begin as blasphemies" - G. B. Shaw

Drake

You don't you just smile and nod. Then continue on drinking

Specious

Burp whenever he talks.

pinkwoodrose

You will never win this argument. There are people out there that think they always have the right answer to everything because of a personality flaw of some kind, like insecurity or a big ego. I would not put anymore energy into this conversation until he comes up with proof it did happen. We all saw the war live on TV.

lord_vanarous

That story is completely false. CNN is probably the most anti-war media source in the US, and will do anything to be the rebel.

Air strikes by the Air Force, Navy and Army are extremely coordinated to the point that an F16 could drop a JDAM-1000 bomb on a dollar bill lying on the roof of a building.

And additionally, it hasn't ever been attempted in history to put "hundreds" of helicopters out on one mission at the same time, and when they do get sent out on a sortie, they're very precise with their targeting.

"Civilians" probably originated from "unarmed corpses" which probably came from "armed corpses" which was more than likely a branch off from "civilian militants," which is a fancy word for "guerilla," which can almost always be traced to "terrorist."

Those helicopters were probably targeting an ammunition depot, and that informant of yours is probably on morphine, or is being bribed by terrorists.

He should really apply for a liberal media job-
his exaggerations put Michael Moore to shame- and he thinks that Cuba has the best healthcare system in the world!

Steven S

You tell him he's an idiot and to provide prood and stop believing everyhting michael moore and al Qaeda and al jazeera say.

either that or he's a muslim sympothizer and trying to bring you to muhammad.

is he a veteran, was he there?

Does he know people who did that?

other wise, tell him to put up or shut up.

Jason

How do you argue with a fencepost? You can't. Do a web search. I've never heard of such an incident.

dinodino

Your friend might me confusing an attack on "Marsh Arabs" and other Shi'ia by Saddam Hussien, in which helicopters were used to kill 50 to 60 Thousand, after the first Gulf war in 1991.

conranger1

In the REAL world its up to the CLAIMANT to put up proof of his / her statement.

After all throughout history all discoveries in science, Geography, life etc.. etc.. have to be documented and presented with proof to convince others who serve in that field of endevour.

Anybody who tries to put the onus on you the disbeliever to prove it did not happen can usually be proved to be a big-mouthed liar.

st n

FIRST WICH WAR IF FIRST MOBILES DONT THINK AVAILBLE SECONDOND WAR WE WOULD OFF HERED ABOUT IT THERE WOULD OFF BEEN WORLD WIDE NEWS
SO YOUR MATE IS GIVING BULL

Bill

Your friend is full of it, and his "prove it DIDN'T happen" shows that he is clueless about supporting one's argument. He alleges an occurrence, so he's the one who has to prove it.

Catboy

That story is as fake as weapons of mass destruction.

erehwon

I would not argue with him at all. He is just another person spreading "facts" about something he has no actual knowledge of but rather what he has heard. Think about what he is saying, would you really believe that? Hundreds of helicopters? Yeah, ok.

low_hd_rider

Next time to encounter this so called friend I believe I would turn around and walk away or get a very big shovel for all the bull he's feeding you.

Noone i

Dont argue with him, hes a flaming lunatic and what we out here in the real world call a liberal.

PATRICIA MS

I wouldn't argue with him, it would be hard to prove. Maybe he is talking about bush's "Shock and Awe". Big bombing attacks.

Steven M

its not true, although they dont do EVERYTHING they can to minimize civilians, but there wouldnt be a "deliberate attack of hundreds of helicopters targeting civilians" although, if they had a specific target and no other option but taking the civilians with it they would.

Debby B

send him to bagdad

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