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Old 01-15-2012, 10:24 AM
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Got this email from a Marine vet friend that served in Nam...He said what these Marines did was 'sissy' stuff...they played stick ball with a viet cong brain...




Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video <http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/silence-republican-candidates_616690.html> , and has given us permission to publish it.



“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 and 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.”

War is hell, but we are better than that! I've never been shot at by the Taliban but Viet Cong bullets were just as deadly, right is right and wrong is wrong and self-discipline by the Marines is not appropriate here!
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