Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses

Time Online ^ | 10-22-2005 | Time

[Jet Jaguar]

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[river rat]

"....it unleashed world outrage."

The folks at "Time" must live in a parallel world...

My world didn't give a damn if they burned some terrorists....dead or alive.

Semper Fi

[randita]

I would think the rotting corpses would present a health risk as well. Burning might have been the expedient thing to do, but it certainly wasn't the best recourse from a PR standpoint.

[mlc9852]

Remember the celebrations when the contractors where murdered in Fallujah and hung on the bridge and set on fire? Sorry, no sympathy here.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They were either going to oxidize fast, or oxidize slow. Either way, the result would have been the same.

[cardinal4]

*Sigh* We will never stop appeasing, will we?

[moog]

The folks at "Time" must live in a parallel world...

In the other dimension they are conservative.

[mlc9852]

Allowing it to be videotaped wasn't the best PR. The burning was fine.

[Lee'sGhost]

The world considers this an outrage. Boofreakinwho. Pretty selective with their outrage, aren't they. I'm outraged that they allowed the Talliban to exist. I'm outraged that they allow terrorism to exist. I'm outraged that they are so quick to condemn us for meaningless incidents while remaining deaf dumb and blind when it comes to atrocities committed by al Qaeda.

Screw em all.

[Shalom Israel]

So wait--you mean to tell me that the soldiers did what they did for rational reasons, and the muslims turned it into a humongous story of desecration? No, I can't believe that. Muslims are honest, they follow the religion of peace, and they aren't in the slightest a bunch of ignorant pathological liars. It's easier to believe that our soldiers are the liars here.

[Dark Skies]

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[tuffydoodle]

"My world didn't give a damn if they burned some terrorists....dead or alive."

I agree.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

My world didn't give a damn if they burned some terrorists....dead or alive.

After seeing what I have seen terrorists do to innocent people I am thinking the same thing. My little part of the world is not outraged a bit. I am more outraged that some journalist once again takes advantage of the situation in order to try to make our military look bad. Perhaps next time we could force the journalists to handle the proper burial of the bloated and stinking carcases.

[uncbob]

A Pentagon spokesman described the incident as "repugnant" and said that the army was launching a criminal investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights.

Terrorists signed the Geneva Convention ???

[Just mythoughts]

Maybe Johnny McCain will introduce the proper body disposal legislation.

I think the UN would be the perfect institution for this job description.

[LaineyDee]

had the gruesome act not been recorded

Gruesome? Gruesome is having hands, arms and legs chopped off for various offenses. Gruesome ...is horrific rape and torture. This was a sanitation effort. They were already dead....and they sure didn't drag the burned corpses into the village to parade them around in celebration. These limp-wristed journalists need to grow up.

[airborne]

Sorry, I'm fresh out of sympathy.

[sgtbono2002]

Again with the stinking Journalists and their stories mean more than us winning this war. When is the Military going to get smart and keep the Got dam stinking journalists away from the troops. Patriotism means nothing to these people they would screw their mother for a by-line or a picture with their names on it.

Nothing stinks worse than a rotting corpse of a Taliban , unless its a liberal journalist from any country.

[Piquaboy]

They stink bad enough when they are alive. I cannot imagine what they would smell like when dead. They needed to be rid of one way or another and burning was the expediant way at the time. We really sorry that feelings were hurt. Screwem!