Army Investigates Burning Of Taliban Corpses In Afghanistan

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

[JimRed]

Were they wrapped in pigskin first?

[JamesA]

Get in a fight, ya fight to win no matter what it takes. Kill as many as you can with whatever means possible.

[mzbzybee]

oops..sorry I dropped a match.

[Ben Hecks]

These soldiers apparently observe good field sanitation rules and understand the need to cremate remains that have not been claimed by the next of kin.
When possible, the ashes should be recovered and placed in an empty Extra Hot Skinner's Pork Rinds container and shipped to the individual's home country if known.

[Ocracoke]

"The Army has launched a criminal investigation following allegations that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters and used the charred corpses in a propaganda campaign against insurgent forces"... Where can we get a copy of the video?

[chemical_boy]

I tracked down the video report and Transcript on the SBS site

Stephen Dupont Interview

Startling scenes of what can be done in the name of a just war, by Dateline's John Martinkus and freelance photojournalist Stephen Dupont. And earlier this evening Stephen and George Negus looked at that Taliban burning footage and then talked about it here in the studio.

Realmedia format

http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2005-10-19

[chemical_boy]

However there is no footage of the elleged incident included in Interview

[GVnana]

Saw the tape on Special Report last night. Militarily effective, I'd say. Bad diplomacy. I don't know who's running the Army these days, but allowing a reporter to video tape this and providing him with the translated text is being a little too nice.

[MinuteGal]

Sometimes, I just don't get Tony Snow. He, along with with one of Fox's mealy-mouth military advisors, just pre-judged the soldiers involved in the burning, while claiming not to, of course.

The whole segment made me sick. The military man was NOT on the side of our guys.

Unwilling to challenge his fellow employee, Tony couldn't figure out how our soldiers could be so "enraged" to do such a thing.

How do we know yet they did this out of "rage", Tony? Were you there?

This segment was preceded by an interview of David Drier who really strained his thinking cap trying to find a conservative organization the equivalent to the radical MoveOn gang of traitors. By golly, he DID come up with one.

Drier stated the closest he could come was the Swift Boat group because like MoveOn's single goal (which we all are aware of), the Swifties also had a "single issue", which I gather meant exposing Kerry.

I tuned out again for the umptieth time this year, having had enough of "Fox Liberal Weekends", a regular feature of the "We Report, You Tune Out" bull-chippie Fox regularly feeds us on Saturdays and Sundays.

Leni