Maybe their heads were on fire?

[MrSplitshot]

Rep. Allen West, a former Army LT. Col, on the recent video showing Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers:

“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage a...nd condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

Precisely...

I don't think there was as much shock over the bodies of American soldiers being desecrated because we expect it from the Taliban...that's why they are the bad guys, the enemy, the evil in the equation. They have shown over and over what kind of people they are. We're the good guys because we hold more regard for human life than those ******** do. That's one of the main reasons we're there trying to kill them off ain't it? If we didn't hold more regard for human life, we'd just nuke the whole **** country and be done with it. It would be much easier. Lord knows the Taliban would do it to our country if they had half the chance.


I agree with his reprimand for the Marines...shouldn't be anything heavier than that.

[Dave Stewart]

An Article 15 is definitely in order here...you get caught you pay the price...but the price for this should not be a Court Marshal with prison, reduction to lowest rank and loss of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge....but you can bet your butt that there will be a lot of folks both civilian and military that will be calling for it....because of all the press and the politically correct environment these troops have to live in now....let's hope it does not come to pass.

[DJD]

So true, punishment is coming and IMO the punishment won't fit the so called crime. Maybe something else will happen and the hoards of news hounds will focus their efforts elsewhere. Out of sight and media......out of mind.
God bless our troops!

[RoadToad]

I don't think there was as much shock over the bodies of American soldiers being desecrated because we expect it from the Taliban...that's why they are the bad guys, the enemy, the evil in the equation. They have shown over and over what kind of people they are. We're the good guys because we hold more regard for human life than those ******** do. That's one of the main reasons we're there trying to kill them off ain't it? If we didn't hold more regard for human life, we'd just nuke the whole **** country and be done with it. It would be much easier. Lord knows the Taliban would do it to our country if they had half the chance.


I agree with his reprimand for the Marines...shouldn't be anything heavier than that.

What he said!