Posted on 04/18/2012 5:49:13 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
FULL TITLE: 'It's reprehensible': White House condemns photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suicide bombers in Afghanistan
Excerpted Article:
The White House says the conduct depicted in photos that purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan is 'reprehensible' ... ----
White House spokesman Jay Carney says the conduct does not represent the standards of the U.S. military and added the president believes the situation needs to be investigated and those responsible should be held accountable. ---
The photographs show a number of paratroopers smiling as they pose with Afghan police next to the severed legs of one suicide bomber. ---
From Photo Caption of Leon Panatta (a.k.a. Neville Chamberlin):
"Foolish behavior': U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta strongly condemned the pictures today after he appeared during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State in Brussels" (Getty Image-could not be posted)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
*sob* They posed with the body parts of an animal. (They should have taken the parts to a taxidermist)
What a freakin' disgrace this WH is. Our men and women are stuck in the sandpits of hell fighting a PC war while enemies here in the states (LA Times-Obama,Panatta, Clinton,Napolitano and the whole sewer system of D.C.) are continually stabbing them in the back and putting their lives in jeopardy.
We should of turned the sand into glass on 09/12/2001.
Apparently this happened a while ago, and the leadership of that Company has been changed, since then. Since none of the men who are in charge now took part in this, what purpose does it serve to publish these photos?
Posted by the LA Times because ‘they have a duty to fully report the news”. Yes,,,this is the same LA Times that will not release the Obama PLO tapes.
SnakeDoc
Right! I had forgotten about that little bit of treason. Thanks for the reminder!
Do you think any administration would publicly condone this?
Yeah, I guess Obama thinks the suicide bombers are boy scouts.
FUBO!!!
....and Hitlery, too.
It blew my mind this morning when the LA Times was on the news explaining their duty to release the news without regard for how it might cause damage. I guess they meant “unless it hurts Obama”.
Wonder what side his bread is buttered on...
This is INTENTIONAL. It's the most vicious & cowardly attack on our military because they cannot fight back.
“Anything and everything, in order to take all of the attention away from all of Obama’s problems and from all of the left’s problems” continues...
Except with this b.s. they are putting (again) our troops in harms way.
Treasonous bastards...
The comments from the article are pretty good. One guy said what was reprehensible was what is going on in the White House. Spot on.
***The photographs show a number of paratroopers smiling as they pose with Afghan police next to the severed legs of one suicide bomber.***
So what! I’ve seen photos of dead suicide bombers, outlaws. Japs. krauts. And I would love to see the Osama Ben Laden tapes!
Also seen videos of people get their heads cut off by Taliban. That is war. Get used to it!
Yeah, the comments from the U.K Daily includes both U.S. and the Brits and I’ve seen (not necessarily on this article) the disgust from the brits on certain stories.
The L.A. Times...well I wish they were part of the photo...
No idiot!
The conduct depicted in the photos, dead subhumans who blow themselves to pieces, is "reprehensible".
“LA Times was on the news explaining their duty”
I wonder how many people, total, there are in the lamestream misleadia.
Except with this b.s. they are putting (again) our troops in harms way.Treasonous bastards...
Exactly. The rules of engagement are killing our troops. No one cares about that.
Way too many!
Meanwhile President Obama’s Secretary of Hate, Hillary Clinton, giggled and cheered when the Muslim Brotherhood insurgents in Libya that we supported tortured, paraded, and then murdered a POW named Gaddaffi.
This c***sucker of a President doesn’t give a damn about prisoners. He is anti-US military. Nothing but. His double-standard proves it.
Yeah, right. The photos of dead American soldiers hanging from lamp posts and being burned are so much better (bitter sarcasm warning). People need to lose the whole political correctness thing, and fast. This is a war we’re fighting here, not some emasculated police action bullshit. Our enemies want to see us dead, period. Our troops in harm’s way need to get the green light to return the sentiment. Total warfare and total commitment to achieving that goal is the only way we’ll end this.
Phony outrage from a phony “Christian” president who has awfully light colored tan-lines.
Nothing genuine about this man or his message.
A real President would find these soldiers, grab a box full of medals, jump on a plane and publicly decorate the soldiers.
This PC crap has to end. The way to make it end is through bold actions without apologies. Leaders are respected because of strength, not weakness, second guessing and mushy opinions.
The only thing I see reprehensible about any of this, is Obama, his damn administration and the traitors in the news media.
Soldiers condemn White House
You can only put the lid on a boiling pot so long before it behaves in a way opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
All of this stuff wasn't happening before they handcuffed us with these ridiculous ROE's. I wish some of our courageous generals would connect the dots and drop retirement papers over it...but that won't happen.
When the leaders of the Taliban and other Islam
terror organizations see pictures of their fighters
with the remnants of jews and other victims, they
do not say it’s “reprehensible”, they cheer.
I’d like to see pictures of troops cutting the hearts out of terrorists and stomping on them.
Also, when is something going to be done about the Iranian source that manufactures the road side bombs that contributed to the American Troops portrayed in the ‘Wounded Warrior’ commercials? These sources need to be eliminated before there are any more American Troops Wounded. It’s truly reprehensible nothing is being done.
I saw a suicide bomber off himself and the only recognizable part was his head. Wish I had kept a picture to send to obama/
I was watching WWII in Color and they showed a German Soldier getting mowed down when he was trying to escape capture. He was unarmed BTW.
Two GI’s just turned around, saw the dude get it, and went back to smoking their cigarettes. War is hell.
Now wonder kids can't even play with toy guns anymore without some Libtard getting their panties in a wad.
I’ll tell you what’s reprehensible: our President eating a golden retriever.
Winner of Westminster Dog Show has replaced Kobe beef on the WH menu.
The White House should condemn the newspapers that published these photos.
I could show them some from about 45 years ago. War is Hell
“Way too many!”
Clearly.
I was just wondering what a ballpark number would look like.
...in photos that purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan is 'reprehensible'
I agree the conduct is “unbecoming”. I would have preferred the men removed the creature’s head and replaced it with that of a pig, in the spirit of Gen. John Pershing. I would hope their CO instructs them on the proper vivisection of Muslim terrorists with swine parts in the future.
Reprehensible? Maybe. Photoshopped? Definitely.
Where is that top soldier’s other hand?
http://www.trbimg.com/img-4f8f579b/turbine/ct-sc-la-na-afghan-photos.jpg-20120418/600
How come this is not Obama's Abu Ghraib?
Why isn't the media condemning this as playing into the hands of the terrorists, to be used as a recruitment tool, like they did with Bush in Iraq?
I thought Obama called Afghanistan the good war. Why isn't this being placed at his feet the way the MSM blamed Bush for Abu Ghraib?
-PJ
WTF would this douche bag, or the entire administration for that matter, know of "military standards"?
WTF would this douche bag, or the entire administration for that matter, know of "military standards"?
Lets us not forget “Vlad the Impaler” who struck fear into those that would try to have a confrontation with him.
Ask me if I give a Shi’ite. Maybe the muslim savages would fear and respect us more as barbarians rather than wimps.
this report (with video and image) appears to make it clear the the soldiers holding the body-parts of a suicide-bomber were AFGHAN SOLDIERS.
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