So the Navy is using Dolphins now?

[kaybeejay]

So the Navy is using Dolphins now?1) How long before PETA starts to protest the war?2) Why didn't they use "Sharks with fricken laser beams" instead? 3) Are the Dolphins "ill-tempered"?

[slbpsi63]

They've been using Dolphins since WWII. They were used in WWII, the Persian Gulf in 98 and again atarting Today. PEDA (aka dumb arses) is already protesting the usage of Dolphins. They are trained to "sniff" out and then (get this) place a GPS tracker on the mine so our Navy can remove them. In all of their missions a Dolphin has never been lost due to expolision and none of them have found a female dolphin and left their post. ( I am kidding on the female dolphin part. Neat Story, huh. WAR FLIPPER!!!

[kaybeejay]

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_gallery.a ... gory_id=15 http://www.news.navy.mil/view_gallery.a ... e=0&page=2

[slbpsi63]

Nice Research!!!

[kaybeejay]

quote:Nice Research!!! It wasn't me. Someone from matrixowners.com found those links. I was just reposting.

[mu_ohio]

I look at it this way, is 1 dolphin worth more than 50 men? These dolphins pontentially save many lives not only during war but also for cleanup. It would be sad to loose a dolphin, but it never compares to a person.

[furrydogs]

PETA has already issued a statement. Go to this link on The Smoking Gunhttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dolphiniraq1.htmlI wish PETA members would have volunteered to be human shields in Baghdad.

[mu_ohio]

This is typical of an organization that likes to speak out against anything. The best statement is, "Our troops deserve the best defense possible and this isn't it. The animals and our troops deserve better." I want to see the research that shows these animal aren't the best method available. When trained, these animals have a sense that goes above and beyond what we can understand. Plus the value of a dolphin never compares to that of a human life. Maybe we could let the PETA members tag mines?This personally gives me little reason to respect them to begin with. This is from the PETA FAQ: http://www.peta.org/fp/faq.html "It’s fine for you to believe in animal rights, but you shouldn’t tell other people what to do."Now you are telling me what to do!Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but freedom of thought does not always imply freedom of action. You are free to believe whatever you want as long as you don’t hurt others. You may believe that animals should be killed, that black people should be enslaved, or that women should be beaten, but you don’t always have the right to put your beliefs into practice.As for telling people what to do, society exists so that there will be rules governing people’s behavior. The very nature of reform movements is to tell others what to do—don’t use humans as slaves, don’t sexually harass women, etc.—and all movements initially encounter opposition from people who want to go on doing the criticized behavior. When you equate killing animals for food to beating women and racism, I feel that you have a loss of reality. Humans are not the same as animals. The horrific moments in human history are battles for the rights of people to live since we are created equally. I would hate to have racism, if I was black, compared to killing a cow or being beaten, if I was a female, to a chicken. Really bellitles the things that have been a black eye for the human race. It still falls in line though with the potential freedom of Iraq and human rights and their objection to using vastly helpful dolphins to aid in getting aid in. Sorry for the rant, but this really bothers me.

[slbpsi63]

quote:. Maybe we could let the PETA members tag mines?Can we bypass that step and just blow them up? Yesterday when I was at the gym this little woman, late 50's, was walking with her chin up like she was better than everyone else. Heer tote back in BIG WHITE LETTERS - PEDA . I wanted to stick my foot out and see if she'd trip. I hate PEDA. STupid (removed) mofo's thats what they are.

[NovaResource]

PETA members, in my mind, are worse than the people they hate. They would gladly runover or kill a non-PETA human to protect an animal. I love animals as much as teh next guy, but these people have gone way overboard.In my area, we had to have a deer shoot because of an over-population problem. There are too many deer for the area. These deer are starving to death because of lack of vegitation and are getting killed by cars while searching for food. Yet PETA says killing them (with hired sharp-shooters) is cruel. So I guess letting them starve to death or get killed by a car is not as cruel? Stupid people.

[Vibe Rater]

quote:Hey you need to have intelligent beings in the Army!If you're talking about the Canadian Army, I agree.

[rasermon]

StarKist Tuna never tasted the same after putting "dolphin safe" labels on there cans.

[furrydogs]

Canada still has an Army? I know in WWII they fought valiantly in Europe but I thought they disbanded after WWII and let the U.S. provide its defense.

[Lancer]

PETA in my mind are just another group of terrorist's. I responded to 2 PETA attacks a few years ago. The first was a major fire at a Feed co-op that destroyed the plant that makes food FOR animals. The second was a couple of these PETA basturds broke in to a mink farm and released 2/3rds of the mink population in to the surrounding area. Mink raised on a farm have no survival skills, they are hand fed from day one. PETA even had a campaign out promoting kids to drink beer instead of milk because they felt that farmers were causing pain and suffering to cows. Where do they find these people? The Jerry Springer Show?

[Stang2Vibe]

This reminds me of my favorite local radio talk show host's famous sayings. Jim Quinn's first law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent". Quite true with the stupid PETA idiots.A few years back, I remember a news story where these PETA fools broke into a research lab in Michigan and set all the little animals free into the wild around the area. What the morons failed to realize was that these animals were the subjects of several different kinds of research and many of them were either quite sick, carrying some disease, or genetically mutated. Setting them free into the wild is just another death sentence for them, plus it is endangering every animal that already existed in the areas into which the sick animals were released. More than likely, they were just killing more animals in the wild that, if not for their moronic and illegal raid on the lab, would have been fine. Way to go, idiots.Another good one involves another one of my favorite groups, "treehuggers". I forget which band of idiots claimed responsibility for this one, but Quinn's first law applies to these nuts as well. A group of treehuggers in California (imagine that) decided that too many trees were being cut down in some part of CA to make room for a new housing development. So the geniuses decided to burn down the houses that were being constructed overnight thinking it would stop the construction. What the fools failed to realize is that every house under construction is fully insured by the bank providing the financing. So the idiots burn down the houses and insurance just has to pay to rebuild them, using more wood and causing more trees to be cut down to replace the wood that the buttheads burned. Another stupid job well done.PETA is only protesting the dolphin use in the war because a Republican is in the White House. With the dolphins' perfect record so far, if a liberal democrat was President, PETA would be singing the praises of the wonderful abilities of the dolphins to help mankind. Just more partisan politics from crooked special interest groups. I'm surprised that nothing has been said by the PETA a**holes regarding the pigeons that are kept near the troops in cages to detect chemical weapon attacks. In the event of a chem attack, the pigeons would be the first to croak, signalling to the soldiers that chem weapons were fired upon them.