Kelly,
I respectfully ask, how many gooks did you uncuff so they could go back into the hooch and look for boobytraps?
How many zipperheads did you tie up, then execute?
And, how many little dink babies' skulls did you buttstroke with your M-16 A1 because you didn't want waste the round?
Once again, I don't mean any disrespect, I'm just trying to find your left and right limits of your sense of right and wrong.
And I will tell you that I also have been in combat. I didn't have as dangerous a mission as you, but I can tell you that I would never shoot somebody who was in restraints, even if they were the enemy. If I did, then I know that I would be in violation of the regulation, and I certainly wouldn't go whining to O'Reilly, Hannity & Colmes, Stone Phillips, and Time magazine about it when charges were preferred against me.
I would hope that I would have the integrity to get up on the stand at my Article 32 like LTC (R) Allen West and say, "I know what I did [violated the regulation] (I wouldn't characterize it as "wrong"), but I would walk through hell with a can of gasoline for my men."
Pantano's either lying or telling the truth. Sounds like whatever it is, you don't care, let him go either way. Am I wrong about that?
I'm not so ignorant where I see only one side of the issue. Don't you have any faith or loyalty to the Corps as an institution?
"I respectfully ask, how many gooks did you uncuff so they could go back into the hooch and look for boobytraps?"
NONE!
"How many zipperheads did you tie up, then execute?"
NONE!
"And, how many little dink babies' skulls did you buttstroke with your M-16 A1 because you didn't want waste the round?"
NONE!
But I will never, never, never judge a fellow Marine, Sailor, Airman or Soldier unless there is blatant murder involved!
Now I have said all I am going to say on this subject!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Again, either the MSM, politicians and all Americans are going to allow these American Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines to WIN THIS WAR or then just bring every swinging dick home! PERIOD!
"Pantano's either lying or telling the truth. Sounds like whatever it is, you don't care, let him go either way. Am I wrong about that?"
Don't even start to put words in my mouth!
Pantano's investigation should have never gone this far.
He was in a live or die combat situation and unless YOU have ever been in that situation YOU don't have a friggin' clue.
I HAVE and I say HE DID THE RIGHT THING!
I wouldn't have gone through that car myself either.
Let the idiots go through it and if they try to pull something wrong then END IT!
Better them than me and my fellow Marines.
Good day!