[Clive]

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[Republic of Texas]

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

[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...

[M Kehoe]

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

5.56mm

[Cruising Speed]

Check out Ogrish.com and the entries for 7/20, 7/3, 8/3, 6/25, and 8/26.

[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.

[cmsgop]

I Will Poop On You!

[The KG9 Kid]

I don't like it, but it's nothing worth ruining a good sniper's career over.

Seems that his commanders agree.

Those Al-Queda aren't even worth burying. Shoot them and leave them like the dropped after you rifle through their pockets, I say.

[swarthyguy]

Good. Jihadis have a tradition of violating corpses and performing nasty mutilations(eyes gouged out, penises severed and inserted into the mouths).

[weegee]

"It's as much moral as it is legal. We always want dead bodies, whether they be enemy or friendly, to be treated with dignity."

Al Qaeda fights for no nation officially. They are terrorists. Never forget. Civilized treatment is due a civilized combatant. Terrorists do not fight "civillized war", they strike cowardly at innocent civilians (including children). They dress as rescue workers and cause further injury.

[dogbrain]

...interesting..

[VOA]

bump

[Godel]

So its okay to kill your enemy, but not to make fun of them afterwards.

PC ruins everything.

[Liberatio]

I didn't think Canadians had that much anger if it was true. Good thing it isn't. At least they help us out when we need it unlike the other country to the south.

[sneakypete]

Military investigators dug up the corpse and searched tents at the Canadian military base, seizing a knife. DNA tests were conducted to see if the knife could be tied to the body, but no link was established.

Well,I guess them doing that is ok. After all,there is nothing important going on,and soldiers don't have anything better to do that dig up bodies.(sarcasm)

[sneakypete]

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

Politically Correct HorseHillary is still HorseHillary! Who the hell do these PC clowns think they are fooling? Have they ever seen bodies being bulldozed into a mass grave,or even dug up and lined up for inspection by intelligence officers and surgeons? How much "dignity" is there in that?

Where the hell do thise PC yahoos come from,Sesame Street?

[xfmrman]

If he stayed with the ears, he could tell people they are just dried apricots on a string...

[Clive]

I have never seen a thread run so deeo (472 whei I wrote this).

Can we all please try to remembet that this soldier was acquitted.

As a result of his having been (wrongly it turns out) charged with this offence, Canada would not allow him to accept a Bronze Star awarded by the United States. (Five Bronze Stars were awarded to Patricias during this deployment, his was one of them.)

I suspect that the political consequences of the beating death of a teenage infiltrator at Belet Huen are still reverberating through DND Headquarters leading them to be somewhat too astute to charge this soldier.

Committing indignities on dead enemy soldiers is an affront to morality and to the laws and usages of war.

But every affront has an exception for operational necessity and some on this thread have brought this aspect into consideration in their observations that in this war we are often dealing with fanatics.