Posted on 08/14/2014 11:38:47 AM PDT by McGruff
Retired Marine Cpl. Robert Richards, a combat veteran who was badly wounded in Afghanistan and later appeared in a controversial video urinating on dead Taliban insurgents, was found dead Wednesday night in his home in North Carolina. He was 28.
The death was confirmed Thursday morning by Guy Womack, a lawyer who represented Richards in his long legal battle with the Marine Corps after the video was published anonymously on YouTube in January 2012 and erupted into an international scandal. Womack said the death does not appear to have been a suicide, and the cause will not be known until an autopsy and toxicology tests are completed.
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Why don’t these clowns get life,sad but true what have we done to are own nation,
To allow genocidal slaver murder cultists to freely travel while raping the elderly and infants at airports?
Sand Nazis have got to GO!
Excellent! This is a valuable reference.
Well said. This sums it up. Excellent post.
But at least they didn’t cut anyone’s head off or slice children in two, right?
Our messed up ROE and foreign policy.
Then you admit that the only solution is to kill them all. However, that is not going to happen. So what to do that is actually effective and not just for show?
Wanna bet?
"I'm really tired of explaining why we pissed on them. What led up to it — what really led up to it is, they desecrated one of our Marines," he said, noting that militants had spread a dead Marine's body parts around, even planting another IED near some of them to try to kill Marine investigators."
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