Posted on 11/15/2004 3:56:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Let me get this straight. We're supposed to bring in our medics, patch him (terrorist) up, so he can regain his ability to rig explosives on the side of the road or continue to attack and mangle our forces? MSM is useless.
But if the situation was that dangerous (the "dead" fellow could perform a murderous attack), why were the reporters permitted to come in?
"NBC would have had apolexy had Bush ever questioned Kerry recieving one of these for essentially the same thing."
You got THAT right! Kerry was an admitted war criminal, and no problem with that, or with shooting a KID in the BACK, as far as they are concerned. Yet -- this is the worst of horrors . . .
IOW they sure have a case of selective condemnation . . .
Shotguns are excellent for close in work.
.45 Thompsons are good too but showing my age now,,,,,
Next time the marines come across a "possom player" they should just throw a few spitballs at them...that'll fix em.
Well, maybe it is time to limit access of journalist.
Excellent idea! I am tired of our soldiers and Marines getting a lot of criticism. GET RID OF THE PRESS.
Didn't Kerry get a Silver Star for that?
If the marine had been killed by this terrorist, it would have been another statistic on the "Bush's fault" list of war dead.
The media sides against America. ALWAYS. Newsrooms harbor as many Rats as the Boston tunnel system.
I'm concerned that is what is putting our troops lives in danger. A few seconds of hesitating to see if a camera on, may get them killed.
Lets see how the leftist commie pigs in the congress handle this this time lets see if they have learned their lessons watch out for the TED Kennedy effect.
The bleeding heart liberals will be the death of this nation. These insane communist media rats want our guys to fight the sadistic terrorists by the 'rules', meanwhile we march along and find the dismembered, disembowled body of a Western woman, and decapitated bodies of our kidnapped civilians. I am truly, truly getting sick of the media subversives who hate America so much they take sides with terrorists over our own guys.
Waitaminnit, you saying this possum had planted an ied in himself?
Insanity defense???????????!!!!!!!!!!! May this man receive the death penalty for what he did to his fellow soldiers! He is worst than scum!
The marine did what he thought was necessary. I thank him for doing his job.
I almst hope they keep it up so thy just lose more power
It makes me puke to see the MSM call these sub-human devils "insurgents"!
In retrospect, "what could he have been thinking" was the wrong phrase to use. I understand what he was thinking, and his action is certainly understandable given the climate. As I stated in later posts, this points to the problem of having cameras on the front lines. Things can easily be taken out of context - or blown out of proportion. If he did anything wrong the military will deal with it, and I feel no sympathy for the terrorist who was killed.
That's certainly true.
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