Americans cheered Gen. Patton when he urinated on the enemy

Fellowship of the Minds (Conservatives who love America) ^ | January 12, 2012 | Robert K. Wilcox

[Windflier]

The last soldier I heard of urinating on the enemy was Gen. George S. Patton. Should the general, who, as much as any other, was responsible for defeating the Nazis, have been driven from the military for such an act? You’d think so from the hysteric response building in the mainstream and Left-leaning press to a video allegedly showing marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Presuming it’s authentic, such reaction is absurd.

We send these young men out to kill and maim their enemy. That means snuffing out their life, with all the heartbreak and tragedy involved. They usually do this with bullets that rip and tear; or larger projectiles like grenades, artillery shells, or air-dropped bombs which can shred or disintegrate a body. Often fire is involved. Is urinating on a dead body worse?

Yet as I write, I can feel the hope and purpose in a headline like AOL-Huffington Post’s, “Outrage over Purported Marine Video: A shocking video that allegedly shows American soldiers performing a ‘disgusting’ act sparks a US Marine Corps investigation.” It’s already tagged under “atrocities” and “war crimes.” What the headline writers are really saying is, “Oh please, please, another Mai Lai Massacre type scandal like in Vietnam. Well, we know it’s not going to be that big, but we can again throw bad light on the US military, which we basically hate and fear and are mad at for doing all the bad things they do.”

Of course they’ve gone to the Council on American-Islamic Relations for comment. As if they didn’t know they’d get a condemnation. But did they balance it with someone at war with the Taliban? Not a chance. And the statement says, “The video shows behavior…totally unbecoming of American military personnel and that would ultimately endanger other soldiers and civilians.”

It’s so predictable, petty, and blown out of proportion by a media that largely knows nothing of the battlefield and why a crude but ultimately innocuous act like this might happen. What do they expect in war? Tea and crumpets and the Marquess of Queensbury rules? War is hell. Most of those fighting it are young, usually 18 to 22. They are inexperienced. They are sent to deserts and other uninhabitable places with stinging insects, maddening heat and sanitary conditions the Left would be screaming was child abuse. They forge a bond with each other few peacetime friendships can ever hope to equal. They have to. It’s the only way to get through. And some of them, if not more, see that bonded friend killed or mutilated as only war can do it.

[John S Mosby]

Here is Patton speaking in LA introduced by Gen. Doolittle, and the film narrated by Ronald Reagan!

Patton’s classic VA Southern accent with great irony, humor and oration skills- a leader.

“Places in Germany whose names I can’t pronounce but whose places I have removed”—Classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjnWXFTQkM

[El Gato]

The Nazis back in Berlin may have been monsters, but the guys he fought on the battlefield were soldiers just like him

Except for much of the Waffen SS.

Remember the Malmedy massacre.

[Windflier]

On Fridays, he will be driven to Killeen TX and walk outside with a placard saying: “I killed 12 American servicemen at Ft. Hood and all I got was this lousy placard.”

I don't think he'd last more than about an hour wearing that sign on the streets of Killeen. LOL

[Norm Lenhart]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2832296/posts

Got a bunch of armchair QBs on this thread Windy. Turns my stomach.

[Windflier]

The Marines that pissed on the Afghans should get mess duty for a month, not for pissing on the enemy, but for recording it and letting the F8King press get the recording.

A lot of my Facebook friends are saying the same thing. I agree. Making the recording, and then somehow letting it get out, is the only thing I can condemn them for.

Idiots that have a problem with these Marines should be deported to Afghanistan.

No joke. I've told more than one moron to walk a mile in these Marines' boots before condemning them. Those guys are fighting barbaric monsters for their very lives. We owe them our thanks and everlasting gratitude for what they're doing.

[Windflier]

Except for much of the Waffen SS.

I was talking about the German regulars, not the SS. It goes without saying that they were monsters.

[El Gato]

But in Afghanistan, there are no regulars, and the enemy is all the equivalent of the Waffen SS.

[berdie]

I don’t think I could have said this any better.

Very eloquently and truthfully stated.

I had never seen the picture at post #13.

It broke my heart as well as it enraged me. Hearing about an event is a sanitized version of seeing it.

Maybe photos like these should be shown to the general public so they have a better understanding of what our guys deal with.

[Windflier]

Got a bunch of armchair QBs on this thread Windy. Turns my stomach.

I read maybe a dozen posts into the thread until I encountered the first negative comment. I let 'em have it. Most of what I saw, though, was what you'd expect of the Freeper community.

[Windflier]

in Afghanistan, there are no regulars, and the enemy is all the equivalent of the Waffen SS.

Very good observation, which is all the more reason that those scum don't deserve the slightest bit of sympathy for what our Marines did.

[PhilDragoo]

This is an administration and media which continues to persecute the Haditha Marines.

Which terms the Ft. Hood jihadic massacre an incident of workplace violence.

Which gives Russia terminal velocity data of the Standard Missile interceptor.

Which put a higher value on filling the ranks with homosexuals than filling the flight lines with F-22s.

The rules of engagement are that the enemy shall be given the advantage--it's called treason.

The article author Robert K. Wilcox wrote Target: Patton which presents a compelling case for assassination rather than accidental death.

It wasn't politic to expose the sacrifice of tens of thousands of Allied POWs to getting along with Uncle Joe.

And the prospect of Patton returning to California to run for the U.S. Senate and ultimately the White House was unthinkable.

He deemed the war incomplete with the totalitarian superstate still standing.

Now Iraq and Afghanistan are sand castles not military objectives.

While Bill Ayers' Best Friend Forever hosts the IRGC building silos on the Panaguan Peninsula.

Hey, subjects, watch sex-change patients on Dancing With The Stars and leave geopolitics to the experts.

[Vendome]

Americans will not tolerate a loser.

Real Americans love to win....

[Windflier]

Thanks, Berdie. What modern, pacifist Americans fail to understand, is that fighting war with one hand tied behind your back, only encourages more war.

If America had begun bombing the Middle East back into the stone age after 9/11, it wouldn’t have taken long before those countries began wiping out Al Qaeda and the rest of the radical Muslims themselves.

The War on Terror would have ended within months, if we’d simply unleashed our war machine without restraint. Those countries would be our staunchest allies by now.

Look at where we are instead. Governments across the Middle East are falling, and being replaced with radical Islamist jihad groups. Iraq has been abandoned, and will soon fall to the Muslim Brotherhood. Iran is working on developing an atomic bomb and the means to deliver it trans-continentally. And the war in Afghanistan continues.

What pains me most at this time, is that the stars were aligned for the US to elect another Reagan this year. That person would have turned this whole picture around, but now.... I don’t know what’s going to happen.

[jpsb]

"They've gotten hundreds of thousands of our brave people killed over the last few decades - and HAVEN'T allowed them the victories they sacrificed so many lives to win."

No commander worth his salt would allow this, if this nation is to survive it's warriors must be freed to wage war. Where is no other way,

[Windflier]

That was a devastating post. Thank you.

[cva66snipe]

While Patton was leading the battles in WW2 the Marxist invited here by a certain university were invading our education system including the military academies following WW2. The result was kinder, gentler, {on our side as such only} wars we would not win. PC is killing our military as much as defunding it is. The Marxist made certain we had no more Pattons.

[Windflier]

"Americans will not tolerate a loser. Real Americans love to win...."

[El Gato]

On Fridays, he will be driven to Killeen TX and walk outside with a placard saying: “I killed 12 American servicemen at Ft. Hood and all I got was this lousy placard.

He doesn't walk anywhere these days, thanks to the bullet in his spine fired by Sgt. Mark Todd a civilian DoD cop (but retired military).

12 military killed, plus two civilians, counting the unborn child of Pvt. Francheska Velez.

I was on post that day.. well actually I was at off post @ Blimpies, a couple of miles, maybe a little less, from the shooting site, when the story came on TV. But I was able to get onto what is called "West Ft. Hood", before they shut that down as well.

The next summer after the shooting, I had knee surgery, twice, in the same hospital where the other DoD cop to respond , Sergeant Kimberly Munley, was taken. I had the same physical therapist too. Made standing at attention, or as close as i could come, during the one year memorial, somewhat difficult.

[Windflier]

if this nation is to survive it's warriors must be freed to wage war.

Amen. A country that will not honestly fight for itself, is doomed to the ash heap of history.

[BenKenobi]

I’m aware of his injury sir.

You folks have my sympathies. I remember hearing about it and calling my friends here in TX, hoping that they were ok. Thankfully they got back to me a few days later being off base at the time.

The worst part is all the folks who gave Hasan a pass. The warning signs were there. His supervisors had it all. It wasn’t sudden Jihadi syndrome, it was a clear and consistant pattern. He never should have been a mile from any military base and dishonorably discharged years before the massacre.

But all we can do is pray for those who fell. Wish I could do more.