Posted on 01/13/2012 6:04:20 AM PST by LS
Edited on 01/13/2012 6:21:44 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The buzz today is Drudge's headline, "P@$$ed" and the associated Wapo blog
Most Freepers know that I'm as far from a conspiracy theorist as one gets. But this seems too convenient. You have:
a president whose polling is tanking, whose re-elect is deeply in trouble, and whose policies cannot possibly improve things in the next eight months;
a president who despises the military (there is a new book out by Michael Hastings, The Operators, reporting that Obama in Baghdad didn't want to shake any more soldiers' hands or sign books http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/book-depicts-cranky-obama-on-baghdad-visit;
a president who desperately wants out of Afghanistan and Iraq and who has refused to take the recommendations of his senior generals;
and now, out of nowhere, a video of Marines "desecrating" the bodies of Taliban killers suddenly appears. (For the record, I seem to recall Patton urinating in the Rhine and it was cheered by the press. Also, for the record, I seem to recall Taliban/al-Qaeda types actually cutting off the heads of living Americans, and I'm supposed to get upset by urinating on the dead body of an enemy? Sorry, gotta meditate on that one).
Also for the record, to me the video is extremely staged. The bodies are neatly positioned, the Marines lined up, and obviously this wasn't spur-of-the-moment passion, er, erupting. At the end, the photographer apparently says, "Is that it?" So the video was meant to be released.
As I say, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but for an administration desperate to be hailed for something positive and desperate to radically reduce the size of the military, this little incident seems tailor made.
Rush discussing this seemed to agree with some of the other posters on the thread who said that we are close to getting a deal with the Taliban to leave and for that reason they are saying this is “no big deal.” But you should go to the link and watch for yourself.
Dead Taalieban, PISS be upon them!
I tried to watch it but my computer wouldn’t do it. Showed about 4 seconds and that was it.
Do not watch the MSM, so have missed all the hyper ventilating on this story, but from my perspective, this seems like a psy-ops operation to prepare the American sheeple for something coming down the pike. Something very big. You can kinda understand the outrage over the prison abuse scandal from Iraq because they were living people being abused. And hey, that evil GWB was President then /sarc. But these guys were dead, Jim.
I think you got it right.
Neither the mediots, nor the “president” are to be trusted in any way.
Yep....anyone who hasn’t been on the battlefield of war knows nothing of what they speak when condeming any of our soldiers. ...they know nothing of war...nor the depravity of those our guys are fighting against.
I have no problem whatsoever that this happened and probably released alot more than just urine across the face of a dead man...a small thing compared to what our guys see them do to their friends and comrads in arms.
Can’t say I disagree with anything he said!!
Didn’t Gen Mac and a thousand others also piss in the Yalu? Before the Chinese hordes had our fathers or uncles running through th frozen Choisen for cover.
My take on this is that this short little video of the Marines peeing on those scum dead sh1tbags was the most inspirational morale building thing I have seen since this miserable occupation started.
Partial video then Hitlery speaks.
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