This is not social work people.
One woman said "if that was my son over there, I'd want him to do the same thing so he could come home alive". Another commented "they didn't let anyone at that Russian school surrender".
No mercy here in the south, back to you Tom
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"I would have shot the insurgent too. Two shots to the head," said Sergeant Nicholas Graham, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "You can't trust these people. He should not be investigated. He did nothing wrong."
I agree. He should get a Congressional Medal, not face an "inquiry".
They took the mosque and actually administered First Aid to the remaining five.
Not only was the mosque "reoccupied" but the Marines were fired upon.
So we saved their lives and they used our kindness to shoot at us again.
All the people not associated with terrorists were warned in enough time to leave the city.
Many of the "civilians" left were there to support terrorists causes.
Gunnery Sergeant Christopher Garza, 30, favored an investigation but like other Marines said the Pentagon should weigh its decision carefully.
"He should have captured him. Maybe the insurgent had some valuable information. There may have been mitigating circumstances. Maybe his two buddies died in Falluja," he said.
Actually just down the street a civilian terrorist that was killed was booby trapped with explosives. It's kind of weird to make the Marine look bad by saying maybe his buddies were killed. The coalition forces are all in it together. So any of them killed were their "buddies" IMO.
Rights group Amnesty International said on Monday both sides in the Falluja fighting had broken the rules of war governing the protection of civilians and wounded combatants.
The other side goes by no rules of war.They brutally murder civilians, cut up their bodies and torture them. They would gladly play dead in order to kill more of the Coalition forces.
I seems only the good guys are seen as bad by the press and liberals.
Not the poor freedom fighters-insurgents-"liberators"-bloodthirsty cowards-terrorists.
If we spent all the time AI and other terrorist supporting groups wanted us to capturing these shameless cowards we would have lost many more men.
Our side DID protect and help heal the combatants. Then they started killing our side again.
War ain't purdy.
8:24am (UK)
Hassan Charity Waits for News on Fallujah Body
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3759565
By David Stringer, PA
The European and American Media Reacts: |
Freerepublic search for 'oil for food'.
"It's God's responsibility to forgive Bin Laden...It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting." -- United States Marines Corps
The first captured American prisoners at the hands of Iraqis.
How they would treat our guys
How they treat their own:
And let us not forget:
CIA operative killed in Afghan prison riot
Posted on 11/29/2001
WASHINGTON - Rioting prisoners killed CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann at Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, the agency said Wednesday. He was the first American killed in action inside the country since U.S. bombing began seven weeks earlier.
Officials recovered his body from a prison compound only after northern alliance rebels backed by U.S. airstrikes and special forces quelled an uprising by Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners.
Spann, 32, leaves a wife, two daughters and an infant son.
On the other hand, I want our enemies to treat our captured or wounded soldiers lawfully. And we can't hold them accountable for not being lawful if we don't follow the rules ourselves.
What I don't get out of this whole situation: don't our soldiers know better than to do questionable things like this in front of a camera?
Something I think about frequently in comparison to this situation with Iraq. Since 9-11 I've heard a lot of American Muslims express various degrees of sympathy with Muslim terrorists. My parents are German, and survived WWII. I saw that scene in "Band of Brothers" where an American soldier shoots a group of captured German soldiers. And all I can think is good riddance. Having full German blood in me, and knowing that my parents lived in German territory at the time, doesn't make me at all sympathetic to Nazi Germans. So I don't understand Muslim Americans being sympathetic to terrorists because they share blood, or heritage or religion. If you're American, you should agree with American values. Or else go back where all your beloved terrorists live.
I'm heartily sick of the MSM hammering, hammering away at our military with negative news. Anything to make us look bad! Taken out of context, splashed around the world will salacious headlines. This ain't the playground at recess, kids.
I suggest the Free Republic establish a medal of honor to be given to members of our military who show great courage in the fight for freedom, particulary, those members of the military who are disparaged by the media such as the Marine who shot the injured terrorist in Iraq.
Seriously, I don't think this would be too expensive and it would certainly let the military know that there are many Americans who support them 100%.
The solution to this type of situation is:
When in doubt as to whether a terrorist is living or not, have the reporter approach the terrorist up close to video him. In fact, put camera lens to nostrils to see if it fogs up. If he is dead, they know. If he blows up the reporter and the camera, they know he wasn't dead, but is now. Nothing lost. The marines are safe.
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