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(http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/25/ted-turner-military-suicides-outnumbering-combat-deaths-is-good/)
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The radical left is in full blown meltdown
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Ted Turner says military suicides outnumbering combat deaths "is good"
Atlanta Business Chronicle by Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor
Date: Friday, October 26, 2012, 4:48am EDT - Last Modified: Friday, October 26, 2012, 7:50am EDT
Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner says he thinks 'it's good' that U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in large numbers because that shows how people are 'born to love and help each other, not to kill.'
Turner, the founder of CNN, made the comments during an appearance on the news network’s 'Piers Morgan Tonight' show that aired Oct. 19, shortly after the release of the U.S. Army’s latest figures on troop suicides, reports The Daily Mail.
The figures show that more Army personnel have taken their own lives this year than have died in combat in Afghanistan. According to the report, 247 U.S. Army personnel are suspected to have taken their own lives between January and September. The figure compares to 222 combat deaths in Afghanistan to October 22, the newspaper says.
Referring to the figures on suicide, Morgan asks Turner: 'That's shocking isn't it?'
Turner doesn't agree, and says:
“Well, what -- no, I think it's -- I think it's good, because it's so clear that we're programmed and we're born to love and help each other, not to kill each other, to destroy each other. That's an aberration. That's left over from hundreds of years ago. It's time for to us start acting enlightened.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2012/10/ted-turner-ted-turner-military.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
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Now he is apologizing. But, only after the story went viral. Where was the liberal MSM? Oh, I get it. Only stupid comments by some conservatives are worthy of being reported.
Ted Turner Apologizes For Saying It’s “Good” U.S. Soldiers Are Committing Suicide
Story went viral after Infowars reported CNN founder’s bizarre comments
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
October 26, 2012
After Infowars broke the story of Ted Turner commenting that it was “good” U.S. troops are killing themselves during an appearance on CNN, the issue went viral and Turner was last night forced to apologize for making the remarks.
Turner’s comments on Piers Morgan Tonight a few days ago had gone virtually unnoticed until we highlighted them in a You Tube video. The story was then picked up by Breitbart and the Drudge Report and has since gone viral, appearing in Fox News, the Front Page Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter and numerous other outlets.
Had the story not gone viral, Turner’s offensive remarks would have gone unchecked but last night he was forced to issue a public apology.
During my recent interview on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, I inadvertently used the word “good” when asked for my thoughts on the increasing rate of suicide among U.S. military soldiers in the Middle East. It was certainly not my intent to imply that suicide is “good.” Rather, I was implying that it is good that the public is more aware of these tragedies and is more averse to war and war-related fatalities.
My message has always been one of peace, I believe that we’re born programmed to love and help each other, not to kill or hurt each other. I strongly support our U.S. troops and would never intentionally say anything to harm the brave men and women serving our country. I deeply apologize for any misunderstanding caused by this comment.
However, as we highlighted yesterday, Turner’s advocacy for “peace” and “love” doesn’t extend to the billions of people he wants to see wiped off the planet as part of a huge population reduction effort, nor to the millions of babies he would have killed under the global one child policy he advocates.
Although Turner himself has five children and owns thousands of acres of land, in 2010 he told Canada’s Globe and Mail that world leaders should “institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment.”
China’s brutal one-child policy is enforced through forced abortions and the torture and abuse of anyone who dares flout the law – unless they are rich and can afford the punitive taxes.
Turner has also repeatedly called for the planet’s population to be reduced so drastically that the only way it could be achievable would be through a massive global genocide.
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal,” Turner stated in 1996.
Turner has since moderated his fervor for population reduction, earlier this year expressing his desire to see only 5 billion people wiped off the face of the earth.
These were the subjects up for discussion when Turner met in secret with the likes of George Soros, Bill Gates and David Rockefeller at a 2009 private gathering of billionaires in Manhattan, a confab focused around how the elite could use their wealth to “slow the growth of the world’s population.”
Human Events asks whether or not Barack Obama will wade in on Turner’s CNN comments, given that he recently addressed “Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s controversial comments on abortion and rape.”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ted-turner-apologizes-for-saying-its-good-u-s-soldiers-are-committing-suicide.html
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His point is right but he went about it all wrong, the good thing makes no sense. He was suggesting that there is a high suicide rate because humans inherently want peace and it serves as a notice that something is out of wack.
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This is guy is true piece of shit, through and through.
There are times when you should just keep your thoughts to yourself, especially when on live TV. That was one of those times.
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His point is right but he went about it all wrong, the good thing makes no sense. He was suggesting that there is a high suicide rate because humans inherently want peace and it serves as a notice that something is out of wack.
STFU - humans never want peace. War is a fact of life since dawn of time.
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STFU - humans never want peace. War is a fact of life since dawn of time.
No, greedy people want war. I think people have a natural inclination towards peace and that peace is obviously the goal. Nobody would vote for someone who claimed "we want war in the middle east". Must be nice to claim war is a fact when you are the one out there risking you life. Go ask any fucking marine etc.. My father/GF fought in wars and neither were happy to do so but thought of it as something towards a greater good, ie peace.
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STFU - humans never want peace. War is a fact of life since dawn of time.
YOU want war.
It's just that you want to watch it from the sidelines.
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YOU want war.
It's just that you want to watch it from the sidelines.
No - Humans want war - the ancient greeks, romans, whoever
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Sorry....killing each other is the only thing we're good at.
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Sorry....killing each other is the only thing we're good at.
I'm good at teaching English.
I'm a decent artist.
I can write well.
I'll give you this, at least you put your money where your mouth is.
Bunch of blowhards talk about killing on here. They might agree with you, but they won't get dirty.