Posted on 11/15/2004 3:56:58 PM PST by Kaslin
It's war
Like I said, I haven't seen the video and it may very well have been justified. But I think if you shoot a wounded guy laying on the ground on camera, it's likely you're going to end up being punished as a result.
I suggest you take up arms and go fight with the Marines everyday in places like Fallujah for a year or so, (mabey even do a couple of tours like many of them do), then come back and YOU tell us what he might have been thinking.
As for me, I already know what he was thinking, the terrorist trash he killed was payback for the friends he saw felled by other terrorists, or perhaps by this man himself. These Marines and soldiers not only see their own guys harmed and killed, they see what these murderous scumbag terrorists do to their own people every single day. To me the only surprise is that this doesn't occur far more often. AND IT DOES NOT MAKE ME SHED ONE SINGLE TEAR FOR THE DEAD TERRORIST.
In a war zone, an armed combatant who is not wearing a recognized military uniform can be summarily executed. Lawfully.
That is all.
Anybody been able to find a link to the unedited video?
The media doesn't seem to discuss the prosecution of Sgt. Akbar's murder of American soldiers with nearly the same zeal as they are promoting this story.
On the face of it, the Marine's actions were wrong, and it sounds like he will be disciplined for it.
NBC would have had apolexy had Bush ever questioned Kerry recieving one of these for essentially the same thing.
They are breathlessly reporting this minor incident now, because they are anti-American, and love demoralizing the U.S. in general, and the military in particular.
? They were surrounded. They could have surrendered. They didn't. THey lost.
The swifties came to KErry's DEFENSE on this issue when he ran against Weld.
38 Marines dead.
If we had just firebombed the place with no warning, much more iraq dead (including 'civilians') without having to put up with crap.
Michael Savage has picked up on this incident and is commenting on it right now.
If you can tune in.
Getting a little tired of these public MEDIA hanging's of our troops in a time of and heat of battle against a non military scumbag terrorist.
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Yes I am. In a war zone it is exactly that. War is NOT pretty. War is the absolute ugliest part of our human exsistance. Yet, it is a necessary arbitor in cases like this where the other side wishes to inflict pain and suffering on us as much as possible. It is either us or them.
You know, that newsclip reminded me of the captured German in "Saving Private Ryan" who was allowed to walk away free, only to kill some of those same Americans later. I just can't seem to find any sympathy for these terrorists, regardless of how we find them.
Let me guess- Its shep the girlie man lib from ole Miss.
This really ticks me off.
And MAtthews and ALL of the MSM make such a big
deal about it.
The hero was just shot y'day.
Perhaps the real problem is that embedded journalists can easily take things out of context, and shouldn't be allowed on the front lines.
What is he saying?
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
Robert E. Lee
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