Disgusting - the investigation is not over and the marines are convicted. Same old Vietnam garbage.
They're trying to make it Vietnam again, but this time we're fighting back. Don't sit back and take it.
The situations are similar. As usual, the MSM report it in the fashion they prefer "one Marine was killed and they just went berserk!" At My Lai, the same unit patrolled the same road around the same town and REPEATEDLY lost soldiers to the IUD's of the day. Pick out your closest frieds and people you trust. Picture them losing arms, legs and testicles to a village that willfully harbors the people that do that to you. I guarantee if that happened, I would be severly tempted to do my own investigation in 5.56 mm.
That said, IF it happened as the MSM judge, jury and executioner (they hope) it was a war crime. American soldiers, aiding the safety of the homeland by shining a light of freedom in the Middle East have to behave as a civilized bunch. My fear of this is that it is so overplayed in the media it paints with a broad brush hundreds of thousands of good Americans. How many Jihadis were spured to action because they were insulted by the presence of used panties on their heads? If they weren't from Lydie England, I might enjoy that myself. Put that into contrast to "wanton massacre" as it is posed? How many people (I use the term loosely) will see this and decide to uload an AK clip at the next exposed soldier? One is too many and I suppose the number will be more than one.
If an American soldier executed civilians I hope he spends a long time in the brig. The strenth of this countries morals is demonstrated by the fact that we exonerate these people. We do not promote or encourage the indiscriminate killing of non-combatants. Let the jihadi's do that. Their time will come We are civilized and we do not do that. But the fact that this is the best way the Democrats have of winning this war says alot about their base and their goals. Not to mention that their frontline defense is to grasp at straws. Sorry, ALLEDGED straws. Contrived American humiliation should never be a campain platform.