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Old 06-22-2004, 12:01 PM
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Check out this BS...

this news article is about a month old...but its the first I heard about this "punishment" given to the military personnel.

The assumption that pledging a college Fraternity is a PUNISHMENT.....and a "punishment" that equals the "hazing" that went on in the Iraqi prisons at that.

I really cannot even think of the words to express how retarded that is...

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Iraq Prison Bosses Sentenced to Pledge Fraternity
(2004-05-04)

Seven U.S. military personnel who held supervisor positions at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have been reprimanded by their commanding officer and sentenced to "pledge a college fraternity" for their role in mismanaging the prison.

"Although these supervisors didn't commit any crimes, they should have known that their subordinates were hazing the prisoners," said an unnamed Pentagon spokesman. "The punishment--one semester as a college fraternity pledge--will allow them to experience the kind of humiliation which some Iraqi prisoners endured."

Although most fraternities have eliminated hazing from their pledge programs, the Pentagon has located one primitive Greek society, Delta Upsilon Mu, which still subjects pledges to ridicule, stripping and blind-folded simulations of life-threatening situations.
F*%ing stupid!
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Old 06-22-2004, 12:05 PM
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Where did you find this article?
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Old 06-22-2004, 12:11 PM
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Sounds like something The Onion would write. Probably a satire.
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Old 06-22-2004, 12:33 PM
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Angry

my gosh....im so embarrassed

i just woke up, ao please forgive me

haha, i was so outraged that i didn't even make sure of the source of the article...It didn't help either that I had a bunch of IE windows open with real news articles from the New York Times.

My eyes deceived me..haha! Turns out it was an article from a site called "ScrappleFace"....and i looked around the page...and yes, found the word SATIRE in there

no wonder I couldn't find jack when i looked for this so called fraternity

jeeez
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Old 06-22-2004, 01:09 PM
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Sounds like something The Onion would write. Probably a satire.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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Old 06-22-2004, 01:09 PM
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My eyes deceived me..haha! Turns out it was an article from a site called "ScrappleFace"....and i looked around the page...and yes, found the word SATIRE in there

no wonder I couldn't find jack when i looked for this so called fraternity

jeeez
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Old 06-22-2004, 01:19 PM
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I got suspicious when I realised the fraternity letters spelt out the word DUM(b).
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Old 06-22-2004, 01:22 PM
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I got suspicious when I realised the fraternity letters spelt out the word DUM(b).
I second that one!! It is the first thing I noticed!
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Old 06-22-2004, 07:04 PM
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Red face

yea hey SHUT UP!! hehehe

gimme a break, I've had like 6 hours sleep in 72 hours!!!

man!!! haha
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Old 06-24-2004, 04:53 AM
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Talking

Thats funny!
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