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This has GOT to violate the Geneva Conventions
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:48pm
by Yogi
http://www.msnbc.com/news/914527.asp
Newsweek wrote:Psyop: The Love?s Not Mutual
The U.S. military is using Metallica and the ?Barney? theme song as instruments of coercion in Iraq
May 26 issue Your parents aren't the only ones who hate your music, some Iraqis hate it, too. U.S. military units have been breaking Saddam supporters with long sessions in which they're forced to listen to heavy-metal and children's songs. "Trust me, it works," says one U.S. operative.
THE IDEA, says Sgt. Mark Hadsell, is to break a subject's resistance by annoying that person with what some Iraqis would consider culturally offensive music. The songs that are being played include "Bodies" from the Vin Diesel "XXX" movie soundtrack and Metallica's "Enter Sandman." "These people haven't heard heavy metal before," he explains. "They can't take it." Few people could put up with the sledgehammer riffs of Metallica, and kiddie songs aren't that much easier, especially when selections include the "Sesame Street" theme and some of purple dinosaur Barney's crooning.
-Adam Piore
That is just too cruel!
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:50pm
by Sea Skimmer
Poor shits, we really should lighten up on them and just use electrical wires
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:51pm
by Xenophobe3691
WHAT?!? If they want hard, fast riffs from Metallica, put on Whiplash or something...
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:52pm
by Joe
Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:52pm
by Striderteen
Barney!!! Barney! Barney!
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:56pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Hmmm, wading into crowds with night-stick drawn beating down protestors while the men in back fire bean-bags at those trying to escape, or the annoying ass theme song of a fuzzy reptilian (???) extint creature.
I'll take my night-stick thank you very much.
Posted: 2003-05-18 08:57pm
by Montcalm
One horrible way to torture Iraqi "I love you you love me we`re a happy family...........no put the gun down AAAAAHHHH"
BANG.
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:11pm
by neoolong
I knew it. Barney is a weapon of war.
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:12pm
by HemlockGrey
Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
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JIHAAAAD!
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:15pm
by Captain Cyran
neoolong wrote:I knew it. Barney is a weapon of war.
Was there any doubt?
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:17pm
by Warspite
This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:20pm
by Montcalm
Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!
I don`t remember the name of the place but it was the vatican embassy.
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:20pm
by Sea Skimmer
Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!
Loud music is a common tactic with siege situations. The Feds tried it at Waco, but the Branch Davidians put there own speakers in the windows and proved that they had a sound system more then twice as powerful.
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:21pm
by Knife
Fuck it, if they resist, bring on the Disturbed or the God smack and if all else fails, Britney Spears.
Fuck em if they can't take a joke.
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:25pm
by Joe
HemlockGrey wrote:Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
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JIHAAAAD!
That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:31pm
by Xenophobe3691
Durran Korr wrote:
That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!
...
JIHAAAAAD! L'Hetfield! L'Ulrich!
Posted: 2003-05-18 09:58pm
by Stormbringer
Durran Korr wrote:HemlockGrey wrote:Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
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JIHAAAAD!
That's right, bite me, you Metallica-loving dogs!
Burn heathen!!!
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:00pm
by Wicked Pilot
Knife wrote:and if all else fails, Britney Spears.
If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:05pm
by UltraViolence83
I think that these situations are not isolated. I've heard reports of Slayer being played by US tanks in the first Gulf War to scare the Iraqis into surrendering, and when we marched in on Kosovo we blasted Slayer from our vehicles.
For those of you who don't know who Slayer are, they were formed roughly the same time as Metallica, and in my opinion are much heavier; they outplay old Metallica, and make the new Metallica seem like even bigger pussies.
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:11pm
by Ingersoll
Speaking of big pussies using Britney Spears would be worse than nukes. Its just mean, man, its just mean.
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:26pm
by Sea Skimmer
Wicked Pilot wrote:
If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.
I'd have someone fire a burst from an AK-47 by each ear to destroy my hearing.
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:33pm
by Knife
Sea Skimmer wrote:Wicked Pilot wrote:
If I was an Iraqi, I'd take some nukes over Britney Spears music.
I'd have someone fire a burst from an AK-47 by each ear to destroy my hearing.
You'd still have to watch her pathitic prancing and struting. She's a cute kid, but I have had just about as much as her as I can possibley stand.
Me or her, haven't decided yet.
Posted: 2003-05-18 10:33pm
by Rye
Sea Skimmer wrote:Warspite wrote:This isn't new, after all, it was done during the invasion of Panama, when Noriega was holed up in the... Forgot the place he was... Damn! Anyway, that's just mean, very mean!
Loud music is a common tactic with siege situations. The Feds tried it at Waco, but the Branch Davidians put there own speakers in the windows and proved that they had a sound system more then twice as powerful.
How cool would it have been if they'd played "Davidian" by MAchine Head...probably not chronologically correct, but it would've been sooo coool.
Posted: 2003-05-19 05:53am
by Gandalf
Knife wrote:and if all else fails, Britney Spears.
That's not funny.
Posted: 2003-05-19 06:14am
by Hethrir
Now the Barney song is OK, but the Metallicrap is just too much. There's inhumane, and there's inhumane.
depends if it's pre or post black...Pre-black would make people joyful and glad to be free
