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A Onetime Marine Scout Sniper on What His Comrades Did to the Dead Taliban
battleland.blogs.time.com ^ | 12 Jan 2012 | Alex Lemons

Posted on 01/12/2012 6:01:56 PM PST by smokingfrog

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To: smokingfrog

Or just maybe they saw what happened to Army Rangers in Somalia.


22 posted on 01/12/2012 6:32:12 PM PST by Figment
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To: TigersEye

Those Marines are misguided. They ought to decorate the dead moslems with BACON.

That way, the mozzies don’t get into “mozzie heaven” and never get 72 mozzie virgins.

After the bacon ceremony, go ahead and piss on ‘em if you wish.

President Omoslem pisses on America every day, so his fellow jihadis deserve a squirt.


23 posted on 01/12/2012 6:32:17 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of Islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Melas
My point being, I don't give a $h!t about taliban corpses. If those marines derive some sort of physiological relief from it, getting revenge for a lost comrade or whatever, they shouldn't be hung out of the bowsprit by their own government.
24 posted on 01/12/2012 6:33:03 PM PST by NakedRampage (Puttin' the "stud" in Bible study)
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To: smokingfrog

Whatever happened to tearing off head and s******* in neck?


25 posted on 01/12/2012 6:34:18 PM PST by Figment
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To: smokingfrog
– If you aren’t surprised and disgusted by this as a combatant, veteran or as a civilian whose country has been at war for a decade, then maybe you need to take a look in the mirror. Have you become this callous?

Shut up, dude. Just shut up. Go have a good cry somewhere.

26 posted on 01/12/2012 6:35:22 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: smokingfrog

Some time after WW II, the USA either forgot how to actually fight a war to win, or the “powers that be” chose to quit winning wars.

Korea ended in a stalemate
Vietnam ended in the US tucking tail and running

In the first Gulf War, we chose to quit before we won.

In our current “wars”, we continue to fight a “war” by tying the hands of our warriors with insane rules of engagement, catch-and-release of terrorists caught in the act, and we wonder why a handful of those warriors behave badly? I think we should be praising the 99.9999% of them who actually carry out their jobs with honor.

By no- we have to make them all out to be monsters.


27 posted on 01/12/2012 6:35:57 PM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m not interested in what a part time Marine sniper has to say as he runs down his fellow marines.


28 posted on 01/12/2012 6:36:41 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Todd Palin gets my vote for toughest first dude ever!)
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To: KoRn

They shot the ears?


29 posted on 01/12/2012 6:37:08 PM PST by Krankor ( spare time.)
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To: heartwood

For our nation to give more than a token apology is to grovel before a people not known for their delicacy in refusing to desecrate the dead.

Was there ever an apology for the beheading video of Daniel Pearl? A non combatant who was alive when his head was cut off and video circulated worldwide on the news?


30 posted on 01/12/2012 6:38:17 PM PST by Figment
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To: smokingfrog
This is not a war crime or mutilation. May be it is not right but it is hardly what it is being drummed up to be. It is quite mild as to what the other side has don to Marines. Remember balackhawk down?

Could be a new sort of water boarding.

31 posted on 01/12/2012 6:40:13 PM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: Krankor
"They shot the ears?"

No, the enemy, but shooting an ear falling from a helicopter would have been a challenge! LOL

32 posted on 01/12/2012 6:42:05 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: smokingfrog

Daniel Pearl


33 posted on 01/12/2012 6:47:19 PM PST by Fireone (Building the gallows, this one has two nooses.)
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To: KoRn
Stuff that shouldn’t really be talked about in wide circles on the home front.

I disagree. It should be talked about. It should be documented. And medals passed around.

Give people a really good dose of what it is they should expect from the politicians they vote in.

Start some kind of "police" action. Or any other kind of unwar war.

And then make some kind of misguided judgment on the result(s).

F*** that.

34 posted on 01/12/2012 6:47:59 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: smokingfrog
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -

-- George Orwell

35 posted on 01/12/2012 6:51:31 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: TheBattman

I have long stated that we have worked very hard to take the horrors out of war. The civilization of warfare has led to the state of perpetual warfare. Until we humans return to absolute war with absolute caputulation with all the horrors of total conquest and the loser cries out “no more” - the politicians will be far to ready to risk the people in war.

For only in total conquest will a person, nation, and the world learn the harsh reality of war. And when the politicians once again rattle their sabers and cry out for blood, then the PEOPLE will say no, we will not do that or risk that, again.


36 posted on 01/12/2012 6:53:52 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: bigheadfred

Very good points!


37 posted on 01/12/2012 6:55:04 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: LyinLibs

I’ll send them a supply of bacon grease.


38 posted on 01/12/2012 6:55:12 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: smokingfrog

Clinton and Obama are worried that the Taliban might not talk to us now! These jerks are cutting people’s heads off and blowing up innocent civilians the world over. Why do we give a crap if the Taliban will talk to us.


39 posted on 01/12/2012 6:59:19 PM PST by discipler (How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
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To: Renderofveils

“The last thing they need is a bunch of armchair Eleanor Roosevelts sentencing them to more “finishing school” classes.”

For those with no sense of humor I was joking.


40 posted on 01/12/2012 7:00:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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