Posted on 11/15/2004 3:56:58 PM PST by Kaslin
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so?
"And he should be VERY carefull around a dagerous enemy.... "
He could get killed somehow.
AMen
Thank you!
I agree. Also, "playing dead' is much different than having your hands in the air or a white flag saying "I surrender" (and even then should be treated with extreme caution). If he was playing dead his intentions were most likely not good. It is a common tactic of these terrorists to fake being injured and then ambushing the soldiers who come to help them.
I agree. A 24 year old Marine from my town of Plymouth, WI was shot and killed by the insurgents in Iraq on Friday. I would have rather it was the "innocent" Iraqi who was dead right now.
What if the body had been boobytrapped?
'There ARE rules of warfare- our soldiers and marines are highly trained in following them.'
Set aside the argument re: whether the 'insurgents' are lawful combatants entitled to Geneva's protection. When your side engages in 'perfidious conduct' ie fake surrenders, misusing protected symbols, faking protected status etc; your side loses the protection inherent in those symbols/status. If the enemy has faked death/wounds and used that advantage to attack, this Marine is not going to be prosecuted. Especially if they had been briefed about these types of occurences.
I was taught in Army Leadership School that in a combat situation any decision made with more that 75% of the data available is hesitation. In combat a moments hesitation can get you and your buddies killed. The last thing we need is to ask out troops to have to go into combat with a squad level JAG.
LEt these self righteous aholes fend for themselves. I am sure their new allies, the iraqis 'freedom fighters' will take good care of them...
Who gives a crap, he's dead. Give the boy a medal and send him on.
"FNC want
this to be another ABU. I don't trust them anymore."
I was suprised by the tone of the FN story, too. Wasn't that Greg Kelly reporting? I believe he's a former marine and did good reporting as an embedded in Iraq in 2003.
True. The terrorists couldn't ask for a better propoganda machine than our own media.
They need to get the media the h*ll out of there. Period!!
Certainly, our Troops are going to screw up from time to time and within the Military ranks, there exists a process for dealing with such things.
The media has no business frying a Troop in public and putting a cloud over ALL of our Troops during a time of war.
Frankly, I hope this reporter gets fraged!
Go read the applicable Geneva Convention on wounded soldiers on the battlefield. It says specifically (Article 13) that it only applies to certain categories of combatants. These guys are excluded. See my post 153.
I agree. He should have FIRST shot the reporter, then the Iraqi and any others he could see.
http://www.kevinsites.net
this guys has some great coverage on his website although a report of his I heard on MSNBC was very negative.
Nonetheless, "the system" is what hired them. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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