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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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Old 01-15-2012, 10:31 AM
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I guess it's better than seeing someone from the Taliban cutting a marines head off..
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Old 01-15-2012, 10:52 AM
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I guess it's better than seeing someone from the Taliban cutting a marines head off..
Oh no, The Geneva Convention frowns upon that practice so it never happens..............
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Old 01-15-2012, 11:53 AM
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A lot of you have made some excellent points and have enlightened us regarding what has happened in the past on 'their' side and our side that would be considered inappropriate behavior by most standards. Yet, some of these actions were committed by Americans fighting a war and a lot of us can’t comment first hand on what that does to a person.

This incident showed poor judgment from those Marines. Our county will make an example out these Marines in an attempt to show the rest of the world how much better we are than they are, and that these types of actions should not be tolerated. To me, that's what will make us win the stupid award after the atrocities that have been committed to Americans mentioned in the comments above.

We should leave it alone and move along but we won’t.
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Old 01-15-2012, 02:18 PM
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They tend to render thoughts useless .
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Old 01-15-2012, 07:34 PM
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A lot of you have made some excellent points and have enlightened us regarding what has happened in the past on 'their' side and our side that would be considered inappropriate behavior by most standards. Yet, some of these actions were committed by Americans fighting a war and a lot of us can’t comment first hand on what that does to a person.

This incident showed poor judgment from those Marines. Our county will make an example out these Marines in an attempt to show the rest of the world how much better we are than they are, and that these types of actions should not be tolerated. To me, that's what will make us win the stupid award after the atrocities that have been committed to Americans mentioned in the comments above.

We should leave it alone and move along but we won’t.
We don't have to prove a damn thing to the rest of the world, anyone anywhere witnessing the atrocities of terrorism either see the difference or are blinded by their hatred. We ARE better than this and all of us who have, are or will serve know it!
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Old 01-21-2012, 02:11 PM
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On video of Taliban corpses, let’s not be so quick to pass judgment..

Leonard Pitts piece on the subject..

The point being, war is a different universe. What seems normal there is appalling here. It is not too much to say that war is a form of madness


http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/1...pses-lets.html
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On video of Taliban corpses, let’s not be so quick to pass judgment..

Leonard Pitts piece on the subject..

The point being, war is a different universe. What seems normal there is appalling here. It is not too much to say that war is a form of madness



http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/1...pses-lets.html
The Taliban rapes little boys and kill their daughters out of honor.
Piss on them
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