Posted on 01/12/2012 7:01:06 PM PST by bigbob
The Marine Corps said Wednesday that it is investigating the origins of a video on the Internet that purports to show Marines in combat gear urinating on the corpses of three Taliban insurgents.
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What exactly do you think happens in war? Are you aware of the horrors the muslim jihadists inflict on others and themselves? And a soldier treating them as the crap they are is a problem for you?
A little perspective here: An enemy of America engaged in an attempt to kill American soldiers is instead killed by them, they gives them a liquid “FU” in the heat of battle... and this is somehow a war crime?
IMO this whole ‘civilized’ warfare crap is insane.
And yes, we have to descend to their level. They do not understand anything else. Let them understand that they won’t get the PC treatment that results in American soldiers in Leavenworth every time they complain. Let them understand they are animals to be treated as such until they choose to act like a civilized human being.
At that point, we can be civilized too. When the bodies stop hanging from bridges and girls get to keep their privates intact, we’ll do lunch.
I didn’t say it was a war crime. I said I was disappointed in them. Can you read?
And as for you, “Honey,” the fact that they are Marines doesn’t excuse every single thing they do in the heat of the battle. If you did similar things, you are also guilty of acting like a 12 year old, and I am disappointed in you too. Grow up.
Can you miss the point? Why be disappointed? Would you be disappointed if the soldier urinated on any other garbage? Achmed the dead terrorist is a pile of garbage. Everything he represents is evil. Everything he fights, oppresses and kills for is evil. You accept evil or deny it.
If a demon from the pit of hell rose up and was urinated on by a US Marine, I would fail to see the difference. Nor would I be disappointed.
Well, the dead Taliban guys weren’t complaining, so what’s the big deal?
Why dont you stick to the things you know something about and leave the rest to us 12 year old boys.
the fact that they are Marines doesnt excuse every single thing they do in the heat of the battle.
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Yes. It does.
If we actually had 12 YO boys from the WW2 era rather than the adult liberals, we’d have finished the problem about 9 years ago.
This thread reminds me of Monty Python’s “The meaning of Life” movie where the Brits in Africa are getting slaughtered by ZULUs/bodies everywhere and the ‘civilized’ commanders/civilians are casually drinking tea and tut-tut’ing the problems. Then one wakes up missing a leg to a tiger attack and sits reading the morning paper and drinking tea rather than addressing the actual problem.
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“If we actually had 12 YO boys from the WW2 era CALLING THE SHOTS rather than the adult liberals, wed have finished the problem about 9 years ago.”
They need to replace the urine with pigs blood, which is what Blackjack Pershing did in the Philippines to the muslim terrorists.
In war, men engage in psychological warfare, they try to intimate the other side.
These same Taliban are the ones cutting off women's noses and stoning them for BEING raped.
As an Army infantry veteran, and a Christian, I disagree. Gee, I even talked to my Force Recon Marine with 18 years in the Corps brother, and he agrees with me! I guess he is a joke too?
What is utterly pathetic is all these ananamous posters talking crap, with no regard to decency. No better than the Muslim terrorists our troops are fighting.
“As to the psyops aspects, we are not fighting an honorable foe. We are fighting human garbage that deserves every humiliation that we can pile upon them.”
“When I was in the service they always reminded us when we were on foreign soil, that we were American ambassadors. What the people see in us when they come in contact, is how they will perceive Americans for the rest of their lives.”
To: A_perfect_lady
Have it your way muzz.
“IMO this whole civilized warfare crap is insane.
And yes, we have to descend to their level. They do not understand anything else.”
To: A_perfect_lady
the fact that they are Marines doesnt excuse every single thing they do in the heat of the battle.
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Yes. It does.
WaPo didn’t get the results they wanted. The page has been moved and comments are hard to make there.
What is wrong in the ME theater is that we have not come down with such force that the enemy does not quake in their boots every time they hear us coming or see us. They learn war from birth and fight their whole lives, with a Total War approach to life. We treat war as a skilled profession, learned and practiced for a while as adults.
Panetta’s smooth hands and fingers, along with almost all of the DC crowd’s and their children’s, need to go fight themselves and get back to us before they need smelling salts to overcome the vapors from what our guys do or don’t do—let alone what the enemy and their toddlers do as a matter of course.
Case in point: many in the US, its pols and newsmen do not report and do cave to muslim demands because they are afraid of what muslims will do to them personally. That is what muslims have already done to us here.
I'm perfectly fine with them killing or enemies. I don't expect them to be particularly respectful about it. As many have pointed out, the Taliban is the scum of the earth.
But the measure of a person's character is how they comport themselves, and this was childish and disappointing, as is your defense of such behavior.
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