You are wrong on this one, Sink. I understand where you are coming from, but we are still at war, and anything that aids our enemy is less important then the objective, which is to win this war with a minimum of casualties on both sides. The press can only hurt that goal with their sensationalism and bias.
Soldiers are human beings who can make mistakes, but the media will only use this incident for their own biased objectives. No soldier should assist the media, because ultimately it works to embolden the enemy and their defenders on the left.
I never had the misfortune to smell blood, my own never had an oder that I remember, but I have smelled a few rotting Bodies aftter a few hours in the Sun, I don't see the connection.
Yep. Band of Brothers was on The History Channel all weekend. One of the salient incidents in the series is where Speirs gives the unarmed German prisoners smokes, and then you hear a Thompson go off...
The objective is to win this war with a minimum of casualties on both sides. If the table saw catches some civilians, then it does. The table saw caught civilians at the top of the World Trade Center, back in September 2001.
I don't hear the press beating the drums about the watermelon splatting noises at the bases of the towers, do you, sinkspur?
IF it turns out that a Marine did this, I really hope you don't try to pass it off as a "mistake." Whoever did this -- an American or an "insurgent," it was not a mistake. It was murder. And let us not forget that.