Army Investigates Burning Of Taliban Corpses In Afghanistan

MTV.com ^ | 10/20/2005 | Gil Kaufman

[capt. norm]

You must have one of those new-fangled "double-barrelled" brousers.

[Ocracoke]

I like it!

[Shalom Israel]

...the Pentagon said such acts were forbidden and opened the criminal investigation...

There should be a criminal investigation. Sounds like someone forgot the lard.

[Hadean]

Guess so. Not sure what happened there...

[2banana]

This is exactly the way for fight a war against terrorists (who, BTW, have no protections under the Geneva Convention).

This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be

Does Lady Boys = Girly Men?

[FreedomPoster]

This appears to be a duplicate thread.

[Fawn]

Your time in Afghanistan is short. You attack and run away like women

...like women? Not American women.....

[rhombus]

Does Lady Boys = Girly Men?

It sure does. I'm not sure who says "Lady Boys" - it doesn't sound very...ah, American.

[airborne]

According to The New York Times, video shown on the Australian TV show "Dateline"

And a link to MTV.com!

Looks like the left has their talking pointe for the day!

[BadAndy]

I guess the use of napalm is out of the question eh?

[Redgirl]

Did they stick apples in their mouths and twirl them around in a spit? That would've been a nice touch.

[Shalom Israel]

It sure does. I'm not sure who says "Lady Boys" - it doesn't sound very...ah, American.

I'm guessing that the taunts were made in Pashtu, and "lady boys" is just a poor translation.

[Little Ray]

This is getting stupid. What we do to the enemy, as long we kill 'em, is the enemy's problem. We shouldn't worry about their "feelings" other than how we can better generate stark terror among 'em.

[mrmargaritaville]

SO F'IN WHAT.
If true the guys who did it should be given medals and a ticker tape parade.

[Rummyfan]

MTV.com??? What the???? Regardless, if our men in the field see this as helpful, alright!

[Neoliberalnot]

Agree. Until we wake up to using tactics the terrorists fear the war will continue for decades. Swine guts come to mind.

[Americanexpat]

Sounds to me like the people complaining about this want to turn our soldiers into girly men.

Lesson to be learned: "don't go to war if your not mentally and physically tough enough to handle the unpleasintness."

[Hadean]

MTV.com??? What the????

Yeah...I know...I know! :)

[SittinYonder]

There was a time in history when a nation's newspapers would ridicule and lambast military leaders only if they lost a battle. In moments of victory, the press did not view their own nation's military or the incidents of battle as subject for derision. In moments of victory, rather, heros were made, parades and cheering and what not, with the newspapers leading the chorus.

Now a Western nation's press is as likely to hire foreign correspondents who view certainly that nation's soldiers and perhaps the entire nation as the enemy.

I don't know whether burning bodies and taunting the sons of pigs is right or wrong. I know that far worse has been done on battle fields. But I do know that I'm sick and tired of the press - whether the it's press in America, England or Australia - using the military to further their careers. I'm tired of the men and women defending us and our freedoms being the subjects of exposes on Dateline and 20/20 and all the rest.