..... let's all step back from our pedestals of preaching for a minute and realize that the picture was that of a tank crushing a car, nothing more. What has happened in this post is ridiculous...IMO.

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Point Taken, Gabriel. I meant no disrespect for your way of life / career as a soldier. Like Doc, I'm also getting pretty fed up with all the political threads being tossed back and forth in this otherwise-great-site full of interesting people that have an obvious passion in common.

The thing is I purposedly exemplified my response with such utterly tasteless imagery precisely to try and get my point across. And the point is that what you saw as a harmless image of a military vehicle being used for the well-being of a well-meaning military operation, can at the same time be seen by a majority of the planet's population outside the U.S. as an icon of a brutal and pointless atrocity to humanity called the Irak war.

Wagner, please pause for a moment of clarity. What has happened in this post is nothing ridiculous. Ridiculous is making a light story of a dead-serious subject.

Estimado Gabriel, no sé de donde sacaste la idea que en Portugal se habla Español , pero por casualidad acertaste; Castellano es mi primer idioma. Yo tampoco estoy en este foro para hablar de politica, pero como cualquier uno aqui tengo el derecho de expresar mi opinión siempre que lea / vea algo con que no esté de acuerdo; el fundamento básico de este y cualquier otro Foro de Dialogo abierto y constructivo. Saludos.

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The picture was an image, that was it.

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Sure. Just an image of a big-ass military tank crushing a civilian vehicle. Entitled "From Iraq my new Avatar". With added statements like: "The sad part is that it wasn’t me driving the tank", "I would love to do it, that thing can go to 70 MPH easy, and will crush everything on his path", and complimentary pats-on-the-back remarks like "nice pic" and "cool avatar just the same". Quite tasteful, really.

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again, just a 120x120 px picture.

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Let's make believe for one second that the avatar was a picture of a Monster Truck with wheels 10 foot high rolling over and crushing a line of cars at a spectator event. And the guy that posted it said, no it wasn't me, wish it was, wouldn't it be cool to drive that thing. That's the way I took it. Not everyone has political agendas. Lighten up. I said before, not intended as political. Can't we take anything at face value without reading something into it.

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L...apparently not.....

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"Reading something Into it"???? , ALL I did was to actually take it at Face Value (maybe THAT was "my problem")... It's easy; start with the Thread's very title, then put it together with the (yes, simple 120x120) picture. That might give some people a hint...

One doesn't need to have a "Political Agenda" to think something is clearly tasteless and offensive.

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Let's just leave it that we agree to disagree. I'm not looking to get into a pissing match with anyone. If you choose to look through some of the political threads here you will see that I am no where to be found. There is a reason for that. I'd like to keep it that way.

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