# Don't include me in your CotW!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 21, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974 "2003-03-21T02:34:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974/1 "2003-03-21T02:34:52Z")

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You ignorant war hungry fuck, you currently have 3 (or 4 depending on who you believe) countries involved in your invasion of Iraq. You also have a large number of countries who have allowed you to use their airspace for military purposes. That does **not** give you the right to include me and the millions of other people who are against this war, who happen to live in those countries, in your count of 1.1 billion people represented by the Coalition of the Willing in an attempt to show that a huge proportion of the world is on your side.

_(I don’t know who he is, he was an American giving a speach on TV)_

BREAKING NEWS WE INTERUPT THE CURRENT BREAKING NEWS TO TELL YOU THAT A HELICOPTER HAS CRASHED… IN KUWAIT!!

There’s a war going on and you act shocked when a helicopter crashes in friendly territory with 4+ people on board! It wasn’t even shot down! Aircraft crash all the fucking time. “No one expects these things” - Peter Jennings. Dumb fucker, IT’S A FUCKING WAR! Exactly what _were_ you expecting.

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974/2 "2003-03-21T02:54:28Z")

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How about the shock and amazement that the Iraqis are _firing back at our troops_? :eek:

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**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974/3 "2003-03-21T03:19:59Z")

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You were expecting them to not report that some of our troops tragically died? 17 people on board.

And yeah, I agree, the count is dishonest.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-include-me-in-your-cotw/162974/4 "2003-03-21T03:35:37Z")

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Well, I would expect that an aircraft crashing might not be “BREAKING NEWS” nor “unexpected”. Normally a _civilian_ airliner crashing and killing hundreds would at least wait for a break in programming, and would probably wait for the standard evening news. It would also be quite unexpected. I don’t see an accident that happens during a war as either unexpected or so newsworthy as to interrupt the current breaking news.