Posted on 11/15/2004 3:56:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Probably during a similar situation.
It was a judgment call. I'll take the word of the Marine over the crybaby liberal eurodhimmi media.
I'll say it is another Abu Ghraib. It is an excuse for the media to exaggerate and outright lie.
Last time (AG) they published hoaxed photos of British soldiers urinating on "Iraqi""prisoners" and porn site photos of "American soldiers" "raping" "Iraqis". Such exagerations led to Nick Berg being murdered.
Things like this happen in every war. The kid did what he thought was right to protect his buddies. Leave him alone.
I agree with you - screw the media. The Marine is putting his life at risk every second fighting the terrorist scum. It insults me to know end how media has it in for our troops. Our troops should drop this media scum in the next terrorist den and let that POS get his reward.
Could private advertisements have any place here. If the report of what soldiers and fighters are doing is unfair, don't just moan in a blog room, get your message out to the public.
Dont go wobbly. THis is the kind of crap that can cause split second delays and get people killed.
We osama and some dumb@ss jag officer kept us from plinking him.
We should have fire bombed this place as I have said above and we not even having this conversation.
Then we become our enemies.
Hardball Outrage: Chris Mathews just said the insurgents weren't the "Bad Guys", they were just "defending their country."
But apparently he missed the reporter.
If the Marine thought the "dead" terrorist was booby-trapped or was going to try to kill him, the other marines and the journalist, then he did the right thing by killing him.
He could have saved their lives.
i'm with you on that. God bless him.
Also, the FOX News Channel report included the fact that insurgents have been known to fake being injured, and then attack U.S. troops as they moved in closer to assist.
That's no doubt true. I don't envy our soldiers who have to cart reporters around with them, only to have their actions captured on tape for the world to see and second-guess.
It seems like an impossible line to walk in instances such as this one.
Yeah he did and I'm sure any minute now he will come on TV and tell the world that this Marine deserves a Silver Star instead of a court-martial, Right? When Hell freezes over.
He will probably be the one leading the charge for a congressional investigation like they had for Abu-Ghraib.
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BTW Chrissy Mathews just asked one of their "Monday morning quarterback, colonels" why we don't just take them prisoner. He said "when our guys get hurt, they get taken to Germany and get the best care money can buy, but these insurgents don't have anyone to take them". then he went on to ask if "our guys" just don't want to take prisoners.
I guess implying that they would rather be murderers, than babysitters for POWS. I wish the "colonel" would have told him that these aren't an army enemy, these are terrorists that would just as soon blow themselves up as to look at you.
Amen,Thank you very much....
you should be. NONE of this was necessary. Had we fire bombed the place in April, Iraq would be free and we would only have around 950 or so dead americans.
THE liberal media is literally killing marines by the hundreds by our passiveness and we even have freepers getting squishy about WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
If entering a situation where an enemy man would be likely to arise and attack, then no civilians should be allowed to follow. Seems to me.
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