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Here is what I would like to know...what was the mission of this unit? Were these men and women not told to go in there and kill insurgents (God I hate to use that word...they are terrorists!) or were they told to go in there and wound them and bring their poor pitiful bodies out to a medic???? I think the mission was kill! Sorry to those who disagree, but the Marines are over their saving my a$$ every second of every day and I am one damn glad and proud American!
My support is with this soldier and his family and his buddies 100 million percent!!!

I totally agree with you. My understanding is that another group of Marines had been there the day before and did the fighting, this group was there to "mop up", I take that to mean to clean up that area. When they entered the building this was what they found. I would guess they expected to find only dead there but to look for others who may have moved back in over night. What I don't understand was why any wounded were left there, but if Marines weren't close behind to move out the wounded the first fighting group can't take time to do that. Do we leave wounded terrorists behind to just die, or other terrorists to get them to maybe heal and fight another day, or do we send troops in to somehow "Mop up" and what exactly does that mean?