MARINE IN SHOOTING PROBE (yes...by the UN...gaggg)

Sky.com ^ | Tuesday November 16, 2004 | Staff

[The_Media_never_lie]

The UN needs to butt out.

The UN needs to determine why its troops abandoned civilians under their protection in Ruwanda, allowing them to be massacred. Also, they need to investigate themselves in the oil for food scandal and come clean.

[boxerblues]

lol your joking right. the UN will never admit to any wrong doing.

[madvlad]

I repeat my previou post:

The moral to this story:

If you are being filmed by journalists,
do them as well.

You've got a semi-auto setting
on that weapon. Use it.
Have a nice day!

Thee journalists are embedded to get shit on
the military. They are not there to report
truth or favorable events. They are there
to dig up shit.

MV

[RamingtonStall]

What a Pile of Elephant Dung!

Let the UN investigate the Oil For Food Scandal and Clean out their own Corrupt practices.

Heard this morning on FOX:
Question: What's the difference between the UN and the Mafia?

Answer: The Mafia holds their members accountable for their actions!

We need to get us out of the UN and take back the Land before they convert it into a Wahhabi Mosque!

RamS

[yoe]

The United Nations is using an American Marine as a human shield to keep the Oil For Food Program of the front pages.

THE UNITED NATIONS IS CORRUPT - KOFI, SECRATARY GENERAL IS CORRUPT - KEEP THE INVESTIGATION OF THIS CORRUPT ORGANIZATION GOING - LEAVE OUR MARINES ALONE!

[yoe]

If you are being filmed by journalists.......((giggle))...don't 'cha reckon this reporter and others like him and feeling a little less protected now?....wordsmithery is the reporters tool - and they haven’t the brains to use it! When you read this reporters home page, it is easy to see how he puffs an article. Send him home!

[madvlad]

Send him home alright! Prostate!

Pop. Pop. "He's f&%$ing dead now!

MV

[rightinthemiddle]

Hi.

Signs=Tinfoil hats=conspiracy theory. It sounded like you thought there was some conspiracy.

I got the number off another thread and it worked for me and several others....just had to be transferred.

[geekchick]

Somebody correct me if you think I'm off base here. IMHO, the "pardon" thing is not a good approach... in the mind of the public, implies guilt on the part of the Marine without even having had a trial. What exactly is this Marine guilty of? This is not about guilt with extenuating circumstances. This is about a soldier doing his job, and learning from conditions on the battlefield. He knew the danger presented to himself and his unit by a possum-playing terrorist. He responded accordingly and appropriately. Pardoning him because of the "fog of war" and extenuating circumstances sends a weak message that will get the MSM running around looking for more chances to smear our troops. I would like to see a response from the President, the SecDef, and anyone else who's "cornered" in a press event that is something like this: "The USMC is getting the full details of the case. On the surface, it looks like we have a Marine who learned from his experience on the battlefield, recognized a potentially hazardous situation, and prevented an attack on our troops and embedded reporter by a terrorist who was pretending to be a corpse." And elaboration can follow all the lines that have been mentioned by thoughtful people throughout the blogosphere. One thing I haven't heard anybody talking about, though... sounds to me like some of the terrorists are sneaking into places where there are dead bodies and camouflaging themselves in a pile of them until the Good Guys (for the benefit of you MSM lurkers, that would be *our* guys and the Iraqi National Guard) get close enough to be taken out with a grenade or other small explosive device. How would a Good Guy know the difference? Seems to me they're literally risking their lives every time they check a body. And gee, um, hmmmmmmm..., what does the Geneva Convention say about that?

[Mrs.Liberty]

thanks for the link...at the time, I needed to hurry and post a response. I was able to google and look it up!

thanks!

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282298/posts
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[Bommer]

Human rights official Louise Arbour said those responsible for any violations should be brought to justice.

So what does that mean for the UN's Food for Oil program? Didn't they help Saddam pay Palestinian suicide bombers to kill Israelis? Prosecute Kofi!

[fire_eye]

I think the Marine should be disciplined for failing to lob a grenade in and blow all the potentially boobytrapped corpses to smithereens, instead of unnecessarily exposing himself to danger.

Then, the reporter should be kicked out of the country for potentially having caused the Marine to exercise undue caution and not throw the grenade because he might have blown up the reporter. (awwww.....)

(btw, anybody who thinks we should kill the reporters who are following the army should remember the immortal words of General Sherman, w/r/t camp follower reporters: "If I had them all shot at sunrise, they would be filing news reports from Hell before noon.")