Kill them all
Posted on 11/14/2004 6:29:14 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry
A US marine has sparked world-wide revulsion after being seen shooting an injured and helpless Iraqi.
The sickening scene was broadcast by Channel 4 News after a fire-fight in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
The trigger-happy soldier had been asked to get nearer to the injured man.
But instead of trying to capture him, the marine is seen leaning over a wall and cold-bloodedly shooting him.
He then turns to his colleagues and says: "He's gone". Coalition chiefs were last night under pressure to investigate the incident
I can't blame the soldier when the reporting is this thin, he wants to come home alive. I would not approach an enemy unless I determined that he was totally helpless and wasn't laying on a grenade waiting to blow us both up.
In fact, to heck with the enemy, one less that we will have to imprison for life, or worse, one who is eventually set free to fight again.
Frankly wardaddy, I don't care what the Marine said. They were not sent there to babysit. The Marine did what he was suppose to do.
The last count I heard today is that we had 38 dead and over 400 wounded from this battle, thats 38 too many.
And this article is in a UK tabloid. The mirror.
hey...I'm just relating the video as I saw it.
I'm black flag all the way with these missing link types.
HA!
Now why didn't I think of that.
After all it'd be serving some real justice, wouldn't it.
...while making one hellova statement.
Bookmarking.
Kill them all
reciprocal..
frankly Landru....I will admit....i am not sure what scares these barbarians....what would really break them?
they already are willing to sacrifice their kids (and our's or Beslans)
I don't know....some think destroying their holy sites may be the only way.
It could come to that.
I was only expressing my thoughts. I was not directing my post to you personally.
He does clearly say "he's done"(i.e. he is dead, your time on Earth is done, I have dispatched diaperhead, one less jihadi)...not sure where some are getting "he's gone" from???
One less terrorist thug.
Good riddance.
only that marine saw what was in that alley.....
he can't leave a wounded ragger to fire back and he shouldn't risk his life to crawl back in that alley.
he did the prudent thing....he appears to have killed a potentially RPG trigger pulling ragger from fighting another day.
well done.
i hope his superiors don't cut him adrift
to hell with the Stalinesque Brit media...they are puss...till they get a good bombing.
How can you shoot an unarmed man ?
Its easy, since they don't have a gun you can take your time aiming.......
To hell with this catch-n-release strategy. This ain't sport fishing......
Google news search = only one article.
Thanks for the link. In my understanding of the phrase, certainly from a layman's point of view, the term seemed to follow this logic.
Quarters being a person's living space, the lending of quarters would be providing some form of hospitality to the enemy. Perhaps favor or 'consideration' would be more prefered words than hospitality. It was my understanding that lending quarters to the enemy could be described as extending humane treatment, or reasoned treatment to the enemy after capture, or when the enemy was caught disarmed, vulernable without means of opposition.
I have no problem with this when war has been declared, leaders have been identified and non-combatants are treated with some modicum of respect, the rules that govern battlefield relations adhered to in at least a rudimentary way. Where I differ with extending quarter to the enemy, is when the enemy extends no quarter to anyone else.
The terrorists in Iraq respect no one. They kill Americans, Iraqis, any other national they can capture. They kill innocents as easily as they kill any 'reasoned' enemy. If Iraqis truly hated us and want to destroy us and push us out of their nation, that might be deemed a flawed but rational position, but that position would preclude killing innocents and clearly irrational targets.
Legitimate causes don't warrant the destruction of neutral players. Innocent Iraqis do not warrant inhialation. Food relief workers don't warrant inhialation. Infrastructure rebuilding workers and civil supply workers don't warrant inhialation.
In the strictest terms, what Iraqis might see as an illigitimate government and illigitimate foreign military forces might be bonified targets. While I would disagree with that, it could at least be argued that those were fair legitimate targets.
The tactics the terrorists in Iraq have employed, have left them vulnerable to a complete dismissal of Geneva Convention norms. Any member of the press that tries to apply Geneva Convention terms to this conflict hasn't got the amperage of a gnat, when it comes to brain function.
Understandable, but I caution you not to permit the quisling Liberal-Socialist mediots to build these 3rd-rate savages into more than they are, too.
The Japanese & Germans in WWII, now they were formidable foes. Well armed, trained & all on the same page.
That's hardly the Muslim whackjobs we're talking about, here.
But in response to what'll stop those who are insisting on making the stink is clear: a grave.
"...they already are willing to sacrifice their kids (and our's or Beslans)"
99.9% want no part of the .1% loonies or the 72 virgins.
Their beloved city would never have been decimated & over run in a couple days, otherwise.
"I don't know...some think destroying their holy sites may be the only way. It could come to that."
I sure hope we don't take that tack.
Doing so would only serve to galvanize & make 'em into an avenging army.
Something they're sure not, now.
I submit we destroy the entire lot of 'em, that is, anyone who resists as demonstrated by their participation in a combat zone.
That'd make it real easy to see who was & who wasn't a *player* subject to extermination right there and then & without prejudice.
Their mosques?
...will become just so many empty buildings.
I had it on the 11th...tried to e-mail to my pal Squantos here but it was an ABC video on Comcast.net's site and would only share with other Comcast users....I think it's still linked here on FR
I'll look for it.
Come to thing about it I could not have said it. LOL
According to the account I read sKerry shot the boy in the back. And I believe he received a medal for it, IIRC.
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