Our troops there are fighting subhuman scum who butcher innocent women and saw the heads off of truck drivers!
They ought to shoot each and every one of the scum they catch and send them straight to hell where they belong!
Kevin Sites belongs in front of a firing squad for aiding and abetting the enemy during time of war. Hell, I'm in a good mood...throw Chris Matthews up against the wall with him, as well.
will stand with the Marine bump
War is ugly. America needs to get used to it.
This young Marine has my utmost support.
I have sent email to my Congressman and Senators!
This is WAR! I am tired of the Liberal Media judging a solider from the comfort of their office cubes. Send them over to Iraq. Have one of his sons or daughters killed by these Terrorists.
THIS MARINE NEEDS OUR HELP!
WE CANNOT SIT AROUND AND LET THIS HAPPEN TO OUR TROOPS.
WE SUPPORT MUST SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND SCREW THE LIBERAL PRESS.
Can someone explain this to me...
If everyone is so proud of what this Marine did and thinks it was right, then why is everyone outraged that the video is being shown?
Are you afraid of the American people knowing what our military is facing and what it is doing? Are you hoping the civilian harness and reins will be slipped and we can have an unfettered military? Are you ashamed of what others might think?
Why don't people complain about other footage this reporter has sent back? Why aren't they complaining about the pro-military things he's done? If there's no shame in what this Marine did, then why is everyone claiming the reporter did something wrong by sending the video?
What separates this from other footage is that the Marine likely committed an atrocity -- shooting a prisoner for the crime of being wounded and still breathing (the cameraman can clearly be heard telling the troops that these are wounded prisoners). If there were nothing wrong, then there would be no outcry.
Yes, these enemy are scum. Yes, they have played dirty. But that doesn't mean we must lower ourselves to their level. And it doesn't mean we should close off knowledge to our citizens; it's all the more reason to know what's going on.
Perhaps the Marine believed there was an imminent threat from this wounded prisoner; perhaps ignoring the warnings of the cameraman (that these were already-captured wounded) was justified; perhaps leaving prisoners unpoliced (if they were) was reasonable; in other words, perhaps the shooting was justified. Regardless, there should be nothing to prevent the video from being seen...along with video showing the other horrors our troops face.
If you think what you are doing is "journalism", then you must have missed the demise of Peter Arnett.
You aren't worthy to breathe the same air as that Marine who probably saved your sorry butt.
Al-Jazerra has the unedited tape and are running it unedited. How did they get it? From NBC?
The art of warfare involves being able to handle stress of unimaginable proportions. It is a nasty thankless venture that drains you emotionally and strips you of every shred of decency you ever had since you were born.
Consider the fact that you are in a cultural nightmare situation in countries where you are compromised at every turn. Unable to directly communicate in most cases and deep resentment and hatred are your only companions besides your brothers in arms.
The house to house fighting in close quarters is the most stressful of all and unless you have been challenged face to face by an aggressor in a life or death situation you have no right to judge someone's actions when everything is weighing you down. If you have never held a buddy who has had his brains shot out or trying to hold in his intestines you are completely inept to stand or sit in judgement of someone's actions. Put yourself in his position of not knowing if a person is faking death or injury and is not officially held or immobilized as a prisoner like this marine faced after having lost his buddy the day before and being shot himself. After and during the intense emotional life threatening firefight with bodies strewn about think about what you would be feeling like ;not knowing if a grenade or some other booby trap weapon was planned for you and your buddies. Self preservation is what a soldier is trained to accomplish, and don't think for a minute or second that this situation is a isolated incident. It happens all the time, this time a scumbag reporter was in full view of what was happening. The embedded reporters must be handled differently in this WAR people. To get the SCOOP;is not the story. What I related to you in this article is the real story of what it takes to prosecute a successful War effort.
The sleaze bag reporters looking to one up the competition or win a Pulitzer prize is what I am the most disgusted about. The managed news media is the chief enemy of our media frenzied nation. This was a major concern in Vietnam and it has not gotten any better since then. The truth is they don't care anymore now than they did back then in fact its worse!
Now we have a nation in full blown denial not believing we are in a WAR for our very survival and we slip further down the slippery slope never to return the greatness we once enjoyed. Most of you don't have a clue, having never been put in a situation like this brave American hero was in and how dare you smugly condemn him for doing what he was trained to do. This is what being a Warrior is all about. War is as I said is a nasty thankless gut wrenching life changing situation that will leave you humbled and drained of emotion that makes you human. To fight these BASTARDS successfully you have to almost reduce yourself to their level stopping one notch short of total insanity to achieve victory. Never condemn what you don't understand and those ignorant pansies who protest against these soldiers will never know how to view the real world and what is right and wrong.
NBC should be nailed to the wall for releasing this before it was vetted. They are helping the enemy. They are becoming the enemy.
Right now MSNBC is talking about Court Marshall procedures with an Army judge advocate asking questions like "will it matter that this insurgent was a prisoner". It makes me sick. A prisoner? It was a mosque where the Marines had just taken fire from, not a prison. I still find NBC's behavior hard to believe. Of course those crooks at the UN and the Arab press are running away with this story. Maybe NBC News should move from New York City to Paris if they want to be an unbiased international news organization. This behavior is treasonous and should not be tolerated. Why does everyone on TV sound like they are routing against us?
What's your opinion on this one John? I have mine, but I suspect you know what mine is. :)
I am in, how I can help!
Is this Sites character attempting to portray this as a war crime? As I understand it, Sites just filmed it and the libs in the MSM are painting this as a warcrime. Should we put this guy's feet to the fire or what?
OK... I know this is the trick of the libs... but why don't we begin by discrediting Mr. Sikes. Find out everything about him and get it out there. Attack his character, the way they attacked John O'Neill.
John Kerry chased down a wounded kid in a loin cloth and shot him dead. He was given a medal. It's called war idiots. It's not pretty.
All embed reporters need to be sent home now due to the irresponsibility of Kevin Sites.( or minimally he should be given the boot. Any embed allowed to stay, at the very least should have his film cleared with the military before being shown) Let the Marines finish their job without the extra pressure.
Let's not forget these are the same people who dragged Americans through the streets and hung their charred bodies on the bridge. They have beheaded people.
They beheaded and chopped up a woman.
The people of Fallujah were warned well in advance that the troops were coming so they could get out. Those who are hiding in Mosques are not innocent. They have been regularly using Mosques for cover while they fire at our troops.
I will be calling congress. President Bush can put a stop to this now.
If we are going to keep throwing our military in jail at the behest of liberals "upset" about the deaths of terrorists in war, we've already lost.
If we are going to repay the best and brightest who are over in that God forsaken hell hole, risking their lives to protect us- with allowing the liberal media to subject them to a PC crucifixion-FORGET IT!. Bring the troops home, turn our country over to the 'rats and let it be destroyed, we don't deserve it.
You have my support...if our govt. can't stand up and defend those who are defending us than it sickens me to no end.