Posted on 01/15/2014 10:28:46 AM PST by nickcarraway
With Fallujah back under the control of Sunni insurgents, the nightmare of Iraq in 2004 is alive again. Today, TMZ published eight horrifying images, allegedly taken nearly a decade ago in Fallujah, which appear to show U.S. Marines posing next to dead bodies, soaking them in gasoline, and lighting them on fire. The gossip site claims to have published just a few of the 41 photos it obtained — "Many are just too gruesome" — and the military has opened an investigation.
"The actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members, nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than 2.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Commander Bill Speaks, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, in a statement. "The Marine Corps is currently investigating the veracity of these photos, circumstances involved, and if possible, the identities of the service members involved. The findings from this investigation will determine whether we are able to move forward with any investigation into possible wrongdoing."
There is no statute of limitations on violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The upsetting pictures are not the first of their kind and track with known abuses in the region by U.S. forces at the time. According to a 2005 report from Human Rights Watch, "The torture of detainees reportedly was so widespread and accepted that it became a means of stress relief for soldiers."
The recent fall of Fallujah has brought that time to the surface again for some troops. "It's just like, wow, thanks for dragging up all these memories I tried to forget that were controlling my life," one soldier told the New York Times recently, calling photos of the recent developments "nauseating." "For a while I lived out of a bottle trying to shut the memories off," he said.
Their souls were already burning in Hell anyway so why shouldn’t their bodies be burning too.
What is wrong with cremation?
Now, you have a real problem: Muslims <> Arabs. Not all Arabs follow Mad Mo's insane religion, and many of the followers of Mad Mo aren't Arab. You have misidentified the enemy, badly.
So what?
Good God, you are self-righteous.
< snicker >
You apparently operate in some different space/time continuum then I. Pray show me ‘rhetoric’ I have directed against Indians or Jews or any of the other long list you posted. Cite your sources and show quotations.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the rhetoric and propaganda associated with the Indian Wars of the late 1800s, with the settlement of Australia, with The Great War, with the rise of the Third Reich, With the conduct of the Second World War ... Are you truly ignorant of such?
How about simply issuing military style cell phones, NO IMAGE CAPTURE CAPABILITY, and imposing severe penalties for any camera-capable device found on any human in the field. PERIOD!
Some moron inevitably pulls this nonsense, again (Abu Ghraib), and here we go again.
No but your syntax is garbled:
Your rhetoric has, in the past, been directed against Indians, Japanese, Aborigines, Jews, Germans, French, British, Russians ...
This sentence says ‘your rhetoric’ possessive ‘has been directed’ verb saying I have done something. Trying being more careful with the sentence structure when making insults.
Now, get the behind me.
Okay, slippy-slidy around like a typical Lib, and bring up TORTURE, which was never mentioned, or even implied.
My statement was that one must dehumanize an enemy before they can effectively fight them. That is not the same as saying they are not human beings.
Sounds like a furriner, to me. “Your rhetoric...,” as in “America’s rhetoric...,” based on the context of the rest of the posting.
Also found a post where he claims to have worked in “First Nations” villages, indicating a Canadian origin. That could explain a lot.
Yes ... your rhetoric. The rhetoric you are using. You chose it, you own it. You didn't invent it, you took it from other unsavory characters in this country and elsewhere. Don't try to weasel out of it.
That's silly. It does you no credit. Your idiotic attempts to portray me as some kind of foreigner (Canadian, no less!) also do you no credit. Your attempts to make the argument about me, rather than the issue at hand, indicate that you have nothing useful to say ... not that I'm surprised.
Goodbye.
That does indeed. “First nations’ is PC designation of Indian tribes used only in Canada. This appears to be a troll and as such merits zotting.
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