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To: marty60
I guess your sensibilities would be happier if the maggots and buzzards took care of the bodies.

Read my post again. I said if they did it for sanitation purposes then so be it. There is nothing wrong with burning bodies if they present a health problem. It isn't clear that's what was going on in this case. If they did it to send some kind of message or to vent their frustration or anger, it is wrong. I was a 19 year old grunt in Vietnam and saw mutilation of enemy corpses on occasion. Fortunately, we had officers who would put a stop to it. Once you allow your troops to start desecrating bodies for fun you no longer have an army, you have a mob.

41 posted on 10/22/2005 6:59:24 AM PDT by Casloy
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To: Casloy
Some how I can't link 24 hours, near a hundred degrees heat, requests for the locals to retrieve the bodies, and incineration as 'for fun'.

Burning a corpse is not mutilation, it is sanitation.

And, I don't remember reading anything about burning trash in the Geneva Conventions.

I do, however, bet that this lieutenant will have his butt handed to him just so we can show the left how much we care.

52 posted on 10/22/2005 7:13:24 AM PDT by norton (This is not about the DIA or the CIA. This is about CYA...)
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To: Casloy

Oh palleeeze save me the holier than thou crap. After 9-11 the Islamofascist deserve every "insensitive" thing we can think of.


62 posted on 10/22/2005 7:55:53 AM PDT by marty60
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