Pissed off at the Marines for pissing on the enemy??
Everyone has seen the video or pictures of it where the 4 Marines are urinating on the slain Taliban fighters and the outrage and condemnation has been at an all-time high. People from all across the country have used words like disgusting, dishonorable and despicable and I want to add my own word to the list: debatable.
Yes, it’s a horrible image to send around the world of our brave men and women who are fighting wars against evil people but some of the condemnation seems a bit over the top. I don’t remember seeing the words listed above in ANY of the articles about these people who go into villages and shopping areas to blow themselves up killing innocent men, women and children. I don’t remember seeing the words listed above in ANY of the articles about the people who killed the Blackwater security contractors and then burned their bodies and hung them from a bridge in Fallujah. I don’t remember seeing the words listed above in ANY of the articles about the Delta snipers who were killed and had their bodies dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. What about the 2 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq? Where was the public and media outrage then? Why is the condemnation saved for only when our soldiers act inappropriately? I’d like to see how the average citizen would react after witnessing so much of the atrocities that our soldiers see on a daily basis.
What the Marines did was wrong and they should be punished under the field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment) in accordance with the Marine code of honor. Having the arm-chair Generals in the public and media pass judgment on them is disgraceful and deplorable. As General William Sherman stated, “War is hell…” so unless you’ve spent time in the heat of battle, you should probably just shut the hell up….
Tags: 101st airborne division, innocent men women, Marines, taliban fighters, war is hell
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