Posted on 08/30/2014 7:02:29 AM PDT by mgist
Robert Richards, Marine Guilty in Taliban Desecration, Dies at 28 Robert W. Richards, a former sergeant who helped provoke international outrage when he and three other Marines were seen on videotape urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2011, died on Wednesday at his home in Jacksonville, N.C., near Camp Lejeune, where he had once been based.
He was 28. His lawyer, Guy Womack, confirmed the death, saying there were no signs of foul play or self-inflicted wounds, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Womack said he suspected that a combination of medications that Mr. Richards had been taking for combat injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder contributed to the death. Mr. Richards pleaded guilty at a court-martial at Camp Lejeune in August 2013 and was demoted to corporal. He was granted a medical retirement with an honorable discharge. At the trial, one Marine testified that his comrades believed that the dead Taliban fighters had been responsible for the roadside bombing death of a platoon sergeant earlier that day.
Eight Marines have been punished for their involvement in the episode. The videotape surfaced in 2012 and was viewed worldwide on YouTube. One Marine could be seen looking down at the bodies and saying, “Have a good day, buddy.” The incident was one of several in which American troops were photographed or videotaped defiling enemy corpses and burning Qurans.
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Robert Richards dies at age 28, and nobody knows why? He is a hero, but in Obama's America, a man who gave his life to fight for his country is simply forgotten.
I find it baffling that people are still willing to put on a uniform and get sent to some sh!t-hole halfway around the world to fight for a government that treats them so badly when they come back.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action!
my oldest want to join the military until he found out he would now have to share rooms, showers etc with homosexuals, and cross dressers.
The final decision not too was when he saw Obama and these Obama appointed Generals not having a clue as to what is going on anymore
Good thing this kind of asinine political correctness wasn’t around during WWII.
Why in the world would it be against the law to piss on a terrorist...dead or alive!!!
No matter the “official” cause of death, Robert Richards was murdered. Killed by by the politically, culturally correct crowd and it’s willing accomplice the leftist media.
I'm willing to be this isn't the first time this has ever happened. It's part of war. It's part of the final symbol of victory over a vanquished enemy.
Killed by a very sophisticated form of “friendly fire”. They persecuted this guy for being a bit mean to our enemy. Dead at 28 from a combination of meds for PTSD? How much did they have him taking?
+1.
Didn’t an Obama administration official say he accidentally fell down an elevator shaft onto some bullets? I wish they could get their stories straight... this seems suspicious to me as well.
“Taliban Desecration”?
NY Times is beyond insane.
Same reason we have laws that say we have the 'right' to piss on each other or on statues of Jesus.
Where’s the outrage of mussies decapitating people. Oh, forgot - it’s only our military that’s supposed to be nice people and not pee on those that are killing them. Got it.
I do not see the controversy, golden showers on the wayward side of the Golden-gate Bridge is desirable to many.
Prayer for you, your Family and Friends. Robert W. Richards was a Soldier first and foremost one of America’s Finest! Rest in Peace Robert W. Richards.
Peeing on pig excrement and he gets in trouble. Just one more example out of a million that we have the enemy in the White house. Oh yes, and speak of pig excrement, don’t forget he released 5 of those things in exchange for a traitor. Not one, not two but FIVE. Thank you Democrats for your delightful contribution to the war on terror. Like Mark Levin said in 2007: “When it comes to terrorists Republicans want to fight them Democrats want to put them into office”. And people thought he was kidding.
They are still the best and my contempt for our government and its media guardians defies description.
RIP,Sergeant
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