Canadian sniper cleared of desecrating al-Qaeda body

National Post ^ | February 8, 2003 | Stewart Bell

[Clive]

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[Republic of Texas]

Please. The guy should get a second medal for that.

[shadowman99]

Pooping on the guy isn't desecrating the body. That's perfume for a taliban solder.

He should've stuffed a nice ham sandwich in his mouth. He might get hungry waiting for his 72 white raisins.

[txradioguy]

Perfect example of what happens when you let the PC crowd run your military. A LOT of nasty things happen in combat. But from what I understand, the entire Canadian militry is down to just 55,000 right now anyway. After reading this, I can understand why.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

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[Van Jenerette]

"... whether they be enemy or friendly, to be treated with dignity...

The code of honor for most American soldiers includes a respect for the enemy who has the courage to fight him. Unfortunately this code is seldom understood by 'outsiders.'

Van Jenerette - Maj. US Army(ret)

http://www.jenerette.com

[donozark]

I am surprised they didn't go after him for putting a cigarette in the guy's mouth. After all, we all know how harmful smoking is to one's health...

[xJones]

Thanks, Van. Of course what the Afghanis did to live Russian POWs was unspeakable, but we are (and should be) held to a higher standard. There's a good reason why we shouldn't leave our wounded or dead behind in Middle Eastern countries. They don't just cut fingers off.

[Dick Vomer]

surprised they didn't go after him for putting a cigarette in the guy's mouth

That... is funny!!!

[PokeyJoe]

ditto what you said.

but I like SPAM instead of HAM for Taliban/Al Queda.

[Clive]

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

from "The Young British Soldier" by Rudyard kipling

[donozark]

And we know what the Chechin Muslims did/do to live Russians also, via the "Russian death video."

[M Kehoe]

I guess I would be in trouble if I were a Canadian soldier. I would have used fatback.

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[Cruising Speed]

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[Van Jenerette]

Good point...I don't fool myself for a minute about their lack of any code of honor, respect, etc. but, I feel it's critical for us never to let them become our teachers...
Van Jenerette -
US Army Infantry OCS Hall of Fame

http://www.ocshistory.com/hofdb/index2.htm

[Ecliptic]

Not sure whha you mean about respect for the enemy....when I was in we were taught and held the concept that anything we could do to get him to die for his country was fair game...being ruthless and unmercyless should be the mind set of a soldier...

I'm not saying I shot prisoners in the back.....but the way I always saw it was it was him or me.....and I'm still here...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..we always want dead bodies, whether they be enemy or friendly, to be treated with dignity....

Well said, Capt. Giles!

It's that kind of code that separates us, from the enemy.

[FairOpinion]

"... whether they be enemy or friendly, to be treated with dignity...
The code of honor for most American soldiers includes a respect for the enemy who has the courage to fight him.
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How about the enemy who murders our civilians, men, women and children?!
That code of honor is meant, when fighting other soldiers, who happened to be fighting for the enemy, and we may have to kill them to win, but shouldn't dishonor them, because they fight for their cause honorably.

This hardly applies to a bunch of ragtag cowardly terrorists who exactly don't have the courage to fight us, that is why they are attacking our civilian population -- or did you forget, that right now, we are on high alert for terrorist attack.

Those terrorists deserve no respect dead or alive. If anything, their bodies should be wrapped in pigskin, and buried that way, -- and televised -- so according to their beliefs, they won't make it to their paradise. The reason they are in a hurry to die, is because they think that they will go to paradise. Maybe that would serve as a small discouragement.

This Canadian soldier was accused of "desecrating" the body of an Al Qaeda terrorist. To even bring those charges, is ludicrous. The soldier should be decorated, not brought up on charges for killing Al Qaeda. Maybe he should have fed the Al Qaeda body to the pigs. That wouldn't be excessive even.

Or have people forgotten our 3000 innocent civilians, murdered by Al Qaeda, who are plotting to kill many more thousands, even millions of us right now.