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'Repugnant': U.S. army apologises for graphic photos of soldiers with civilian corpses
The Daily Mail - U.K. ^ | March 21, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 03/21/2011 12:23:18 PM PDT by GreatJoeMcCarthy

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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

Internet tough guy defends haji...perfect.


21 posted on 03/21/2011 1:04:03 PM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

Something about this story stinks. What stinks is the number 4,000.


22 posted on 03/21/2011 1:09:47 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

War is killing people and breaking things. Stryker teams are good at this. What a bunch of gutless weenies are commenting here.......


23 posted on 03/21/2011 1:18:20 PM PDT by klb99 (I now understand why the South seceeded)
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To: klb99

PC run amok........


24 posted on 03/21/2011 1:54:50 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: klb99

These guys deliberately targeted innocent civilians for laughs. They aren’t collateral damage, they are victims of deliberate murder...


25 posted on 03/21/2011 2:24:46 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

“I had enough. Stop the madness. Take him out with one well placed JDAM and lets move on.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2691731,10

Is it against US law to target and kill Muammar Gaddafi?


26 posted on 03/21/2011 2:51:52 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
These guys deliberately targeted innocent civilians for laughs. They aren’t collateral damage, they are victims of deliberate murder...

...Says the liberal foreign rags "Der Speigel" and "Daily Mail".

Sure seem to be a lot of John Murtha wannabes around here lately.

27 posted on 03/21/2011 3:07:58 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

“Obama produced a birth certificate. Birthers responded by saying that the birth certificate was not authentic. Two 1961 Hawaiian newspaper editions had a birth announcement regarding Obama. Birthers responded by saying any foreigner could have planted those announcements. What more needs to be done? How much more truthiness is required?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2684750,79

You defend Obama but you call are quick to call our soldiers animals.

You are a fraud.


28 posted on 03/21/2011 3:12:53 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: PalmettoMason

The Daily Mail is hardly liberal. Besides, one of the soldiers has already pleaded guilty and is testifying against the others. I don’t think there is much room to claim that they are being railroaded here. Even if the civilians were collateral damage, they’d still deserve to get thrown in jail for posing for pics with shit eating grins on their faces with the corpses.
As other people have said, this kind of thing puts other soldiers in danger by inflaming local opinion...


29 posted on 03/21/2011 3:15:10 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Besides, one of the soldiers has already pleaded guilty and is testifying against the others.

I'd be interested in seeing the "deal" he was offered for his testimony.

Even if the civilians were collateral damage...

I'm not convinced they were civilians... yet. Everyone I have talked to, and everything I have seen leads me to believe that it is very difficult to determine insurgent fighters from civilians.

During my time in Gulf I in 1991, we took many, many EPWs who were dressed in civilian clothes, but were definitely enemy combatants. In some locations, flip-flops and sweatsuits were nearly as common as military uniforms.

I will ALWAYS give an American soldier the benefit of the doubt until he has been judged guilty by a military court. I have a higher opinion of, and more trust in the American Soldier than I do of ANY press, foreign or domestic.

I'll wait for the verdict, thanks.

30 posted on 03/21/2011 3:34:59 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
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To: WayneS

If these incidents are proven and are as reported, these soldiers should be court-martialed and put in the big house for a long tour.

This type of behavior, because of its impact on politics around the world, can impact the entire conduct of the war as well as jeopardize the lives of others. It is beyond stupid and reprehensible. It can set back the mission and, for that, any soldier guilty of such misconduct should pay a very severe price.


31 posted on 03/21/2011 3:47:34 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: lmr

All soldiers get training on the Code of Conduct, Law of War, Rules of Engagement, etc.

This type of behavior must be repeatedly and vehemently warned against, and anyone who engages in it must be prosecuted under the UCMJ, shamed and punished.

As I said earlier, it is not just about doing something stupid and reprehensible. This type of behavior can ruin a nation’s entire war effort, not to mention put others, including other soldiers, at risk.

It’s not a horrible prank, but a form of treason, in my book. It can undermine the war effort, and everything that has been accomplished so far, just as surely, if not more so, than providing secrets to the enemy.

There is no excuse for it and the military better be out front telling guys six-ways-to-Sunday what the consequences will be for even thinking about engaging in this crap.


32 posted on 03/21/2011 3:52:31 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: Junior_G

I’m not frustrated by their stupidity. I’m spitting mad at them and hope they are strung up to the fullest extent of the law.

As I said earlier, this is beyond stupidity. This is the type of conduct that, rightly or wrongly, fairly or not, causes incredible political problems for our nation’s leaders and our military leaders. This reprehensible misconduct can jeopardize the entire war effort.

Yes, they are always a few bad apples. But they need to be crushed. And this type of incident must be addressed strongly and forthrightly in every training session that soldiers are given about conduct on the battlefield. And this training needs to include that anyone who engages in this type of behavior will be severely shamed and punished.


33 posted on 03/21/2011 3:57:11 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: Charlespg

Soldiers should always conduct themselves as though anyone around them might take a picture and publish it on the web.


34 posted on 03/21/2011 3:58:14 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: fightinJAG

My only issue is that the media won’t try to taint Obama with this, like Abu Gharib and President Bush.


35 posted on 03/21/2011 3:58:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fightinJAG
Quick..you may be able to prosecute them for a war crime.. Photobucket
36 posted on 03/21/2011 4:12:40 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: fightinJAG
I’m spitting mad at them and hope they are strung up to the fullest extent of the law.,p> A JAG Officer that has them convicted before trial?

Sure glad I opted for that Article 15 back in '76.

37 posted on 03/21/2011 4:13:24 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
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To: PalmettoMason

Durn... I screwed that HTML all up... Sorry, all.


38 posted on 03/21/2011 4:15:28 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
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To: fightinJAG
Lets go after the American bombers who did this..some may be alive. Photobucket
39 posted on 03/21/2011 4:15:50 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: fightinJAG
We should feel so sorry for the Japanese..the US Marines should not have done this..lets go after any Marine who was at Guadalcanal. Photobucket
40 posted on 03/21/2011 4:20:56 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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