Marine who shot insurgent acted rationally

New York Daily News ^ | Originally published on November 21, 2004 | Bill O' Reilly

[kellynla]

Thank you

[ravingnutter]

Here is a link to the article by Oliver North:

War crimes?

[the invisib1e hand]

What is an "insurgent?" Is that the same thing as an "enemy?"

[kellynla]

Thank you

[narby]

On the tape, you can see the insurgent move before the Marine pulls the trigger.

Really?!? I didn't know that. Fox blanked out that part of the tape completly.

If I were covering someone that I thought was getting ready to come out with a gun or roll a hand grenade out, I might pull the trigger when he moved too.

One thing is sure. The media is still working overtime trashing the United States and the Marines in Iraq in particular. The media is anti-american, every one of them.

[.cnI redruM]

If you really want to get technical, once an enemy fighter

a) Fights out of a religious shrine
b) Refuses to properly wear a recognizable uniform
c) Tortures POWs
d) Plays dead only to then engage the enemy,

the Marine is allowed to take them out. Such is the Law of Land Warfare.

[.cnI redruM]

I would say that about covers it...

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>Here is a reminder, if you needed another one, of what our guys are up against in Iraq, from yesterday's Times: "Two marines were killed and four wounded in an ambush on Friday in which an insurgent deceived the Americans by waving a white flag, military officials said Saturday."

From NRO (The Corner)

[Samwise]

I found the Ollie North commentary. Thsnk you.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/on20041119.shtml

Ollie was on the Garrison show last week. He was extremely neutral in his discussion. He said that he had seen the whole tape. I wondered what else he would say.

[Cold Heart]

On another thread entitled "Insuregents faking dead fires on Marines", Freeper, JeeperFreeper coined the term
"The Sites Manuever".
The aptly named manuever is named after Kevin Sites, the reporter that has encouraged terrorists to play dead and then shoot at our servicemen.

In the particular article the insurgent was shot and killed, or men unhurt.

[xzins]

Bill took an immediate position on this and it was in favor of the soldier.

That's so different than what he was doing during the campaign season where he was hyper-cautious about everything. He wanted too much to be covered from every angle. In other words, he was playing CYOA. He was probably doing it so he wouldn't wreck his chances to get interviews.

But, he didn't raise his finger to check the wind on this one.

Good for him.

Maybe he found his lost cajones.

[.cnI redruM]

I blogged an incident where a group of reporters knew where an IED was and sat there w/ their cameras until the US Army drove by and then ran footage of the ambush. The creeps will stop an nothing.

http://orsa.blogspot.com/2004/06/they-knew-it-was-coming-and-stood-by.html

[lillybet]

I assume the trashy Media types have family, sons daughters same with these celebs, do they really think these moron terrorist will treat them differently, This just minifies me, how they want to undermine there own, Dont they even want to look to the future, God Bless the troops, Keep safe., .