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Like I said in my original reply, I saw the video.

The video was posted on FR a few days ago and the MOD pulled it. It was some lefty website claiming I just saw (emphasis mine) US serviceman kill someone in cold blood. I was pissed the mod pulled the thread. It was no big deal. Some dirtbag got what he had coming.

From your original post I didn't quite get that you had seen the video, I thought you were simply talking about comments you had read on that liberal web site. Rereading your original comment (as linked above) I see now that you had seen the video. I obviously picked the wrong comment to respond to, but your assertion that there was no wrongdoing ties in exactly with the point I was trying to make.

My comments then would be directed not at you but at others posting in this thread, and posters expressing similar sentiments (similar not necessarily to your's, but the aforementioned other posts) elsewhere in free republic. That is, people posting things such as that dirt-bag got what he had coming, and not referring to an individual who the intent and ability to harm a US Soldier, but one that had it coming simply a random individual in Fallujah.

I still maintain that having an attitude of they had it coming rather than one of this story was misrepresented by the liberal media is an dangerous line of reasoning to follow.

There is a need to us to treat terrorists humanely (within reason). Not because they deserve to be treated this way, we really should not even be obligated to treat them as enemy combatants. They are not in uniform and they attack (in fact primarily attack) civilian targets. No, this this is for the same reason there are laws against cruelty to animals. It is to maintain our own respect for the value of human life and dignity. We clearly have the higher moral ground in this situation, but liberals in this country, and the governments and citizens of many other countries who could benefit from America being knocked down a notch, are trying hard to disprove that.

There is no reason to give them the satisfaction of our admitting that we do not have the higher moral ground. I see trying to justify inhumanity to insurgents as doing just that. Especially when there is no need for us to justify anything. Except for a few isolated incidents, that have all to the point been dealt with properly by the US chain of command, Iraqis are being treated equitably and humanly by the US military.

-paridel