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We had better rally around this young man--they are going to try to make a Calley out of him.

This is not social work people.

Well it's 100% support for the marines in my office. Even the women in the office thought he did the right thing after hearing how insurgents have faked being wounded.

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

bttt

I have not seen the enemy soldier getting shot nor do I plan to see it. From what I've read, the enemy was hiding underneath some blankets and was caught moving around, blowing his cover (J), and the marine acted swiftly and expeditiously in exterminating the threat. What did people expect him to do -peek under the cover and get his face blown off? These embedded reporters are nothing more self-aggrandizing glory hounds. No military personal in full combat mode should have to worry about some jacka$$ with a camera watching over his shoulder 24/7 who looking to make a name for himself/herself at the expense of the mission.

"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".

The mosque was used to shoot and kill our Fighting Men.

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.

[The media should include a picture of the disembowelled and limbless body of a blonde woman, possibly Pole Teresa Borcz, who was married to an Iraqi and abducted two weeks ago, that was found in fallujah.]

scotsman.com

8:24am (UK)
Hassan Charity Waits for News on Fallujah Body
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3759565

By David Stringer, PA

Colleagues of kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan said they cannot yet rule out the possibility that a mutilated body of a Western woman found in Fallujah is the captured humanitarian.

US Marines discovered the corpse yesterday as they scoured the battle-scarred town for militants.

Mrs Hassan, 59, director of CARE international in Iraq, was abducted on October 19 and is one of only two Western women being held hostage.

The other, Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born resident of Iraq, was seized last month.

Reports claim that the body of the woman had blonde hair, unlike brunette Mrs Hassan.

But CARE international said today that it is waiting for conclusive details from Iraqi authorities about the discovery.

Spokeswoman Jessica Walker said: “We haven’t heard anything as yet and are still trying to establish the facts.

“This is a very sensitive issue and we haven’t heard any more about Margaret’s status since the release of a video recording earlier this month.”

After the recorded message was broadcast, the charity called for the immediate release of Mrs Hassan, who was lived and worked in Iraq for around 30 years.

A Foreign Office spokesman said it has yet to confirm the reports that a body has been discovered.

He said: “We take all of these reports seriously and are urgently looking into ascertaining the facts.”

Hear Kerry confess to war crimes:
http://www.streamload.com/jmstein77/Kerry2.mp3

The European and American Media Reacts:

Freerepublic search for 'oil for food'.

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"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

Associated Press
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.

I'm a little conflicted about situations like this. I don't want to see ANY insurgents left alive. Technically, what this soldier did was merciful. It was over fast and painlessly for him. And he couldn't have known what hit him. He would have been a liability left alive.

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.

vaudine