Kotick: "Call of Duty is a tribute to our troops."

[Wolfenbarg]

A lot of people don't seem to realize that a lot of times big moneybags types are the ones who contribute the largest single donations to charities, and it's not just out of the goodness of their hearts. There are lots of incentives to do so, so they do. We've even got a capitalistic way of running charities, but it works well all things considered. So it doesn't matter a lick WHY they donated, it just matters that they did.

Thanks for pointing out why capitalism is evil.

It's not evil, it's efficient. Rich people and corporations get tax write-offs for donating to charities as well as improving their public image. It benefits the donor and the charity in question gets a lot of money for their cause. If you think it's evil to give an incentive to donate, then you need to spend more time working with charities.

 

[mParadox]

This man's head is so far up his ass he believes his own bullshit.

I actually laughed harder than reading the article.

 

[TheGuy(wantstobe)]

Considering the seemingly Godwin that comes from saying something will support/is a tribute to the troops in American culture makes me think that the marketing team have replaced Bobby with a robot that doesn't make them want to kill themselves every time he appears in front of a reporter. If this is indeed the case I want them to patent the hell out of that and then sell it to Disney. I want a fully functional proper Mickey Mouse robot dammit.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I doubt that donation was Kotick's choice, but at least it's a donation. I highly doubt that Call of Duty is a tribute to the military, though. Like others have said, maybe the first two games were, but the new ones certainly aren't.

 

[AfterAscon]

The donation is a good thing, regardless of motives.

As a veteran, I'm moderately vexed not by the game or its content, but by the temerity of draping yourself in the flag to sell a game. Thanks for the donation, Mr. K, but would you mind not using the sacrifices of your fellow citizens as a means pitch a product? You may have the right to do so, bought and paid for by those same people, but it's just distasteful and makes you look like a shameful opportunist.

WE PAID FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE GREEDY BY MURDERING SO MANY BROWN PEOPLE, HOW DARE YOU DISHONOR US!

Actually, if you must know, I can honestly say I provided emergency treatment which saved dozens of lives, flew medical evacuations of civilian populations wounded by accidents unrelated to the fighting over hundreds of miles of dangerous terrain, distributed medicines to people who were beyond the reach of any non-government international aid body, helped establish a field clinic serving locals who had no doctors anywhere, and drove through hostile territory to deliver donations of medical supplies to folks who could not cross the landscape due to their illnesses and injuries. Under enemy fire, I picked up a wounded farmer whose leg had been broken in a farming accident and pulled him to safety. I've seen men murdered for letting American save their wives from being shot in tribal fighting (again, unrelated to us). I've cleaned the wounds of hundreds of civilians who needed medical attention, again, not because of the war, but due to the rough nature of third world living.

Please list all of the services you've provided to brown people here:

...?

And you did it all while your peers were encouraging tribal warlords to turn in rivals as 'terrorists', propping up Karzi who worked out so well as a puppet didn't he, and shooting unarmed children who 'look suspicious' but it's ok you built a (christian) school for them later.

You are just as guilty as them for being a part of the complex, you don't redeem your soul by using evil as a tool to help.

Please state your source that has proof that the US military committed or sanctioned the murder of children.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=71097

cry some more about your noble soldiers, you're all worse then the Taliban ever could be.

This is the same website that has a photoshopped picture of former president Bush sitting in front of someone being waterboarded, holding a bucket of popcorn. In fact, now that I look, every single article on this website is doing nothing more then talking about how absolutely evil the US is, and how wonderful the Iraqi are for resisting them. In fact it's banner proudly proclaims "Information from the middle east".

This appears to be nothing more than a propaganda website. Y'know, the same thing you're accusing the US of doing. A very trustworthy source for quoting.

Just so you know, I agree with you that the Taliban are a far cry from the devil worshiping baby rapists that many people proclaim them to be, they're simple farmers and shop owners who're trying to defend their country and religion from Western expansion. I get all that.

But I also know that you're blatantly lying when you say that US soldiers have been told to shoot first and ask questions later, and getting all your facts on the war from a website with a pretty obvious anti-US slant is no way to establish credibility.

If you follow the link at the bottom you can see the article is Copy/pasted from the Independent, a highly respected newspaper and a world apart from the tabloids. The fact it's being copied onto such a shoddy site doesn't diminish serious nature of the information leaked by Wikileaks.

Although I have to admit calling them all the forces murderers is going a bit far as these cases are not representative of the majority, otherwise they wouldn't have been covered up so easily.