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Rules, what rules? Were rules being followed when our embassies overseas were being bombed? Were rules being followed during the 1st bombinging of the WTC? Were rules being followed when the USS Cole was bombed? Were rules being followed on that horrible Tuesday in September 2001?

I realize that we are a moral nation for the most part and I certainly don't condone killing for the mere purpose of killing. But I sure am sick of everyone coming to conclusions based on the simple face value of information and then becoming a self appointed judge, jury and executioner.

An American marine shot an killed an injured insurgent, this is the information at face value. Move past the cover on the book. Those very same American Marines have been burdened with having witness their own being wounded or killed by boobytrapped dead bodies or boobytrapped injured individuals (I ask you, is turning an injured individual or a dead body into a bomb playing by the rules?)in otherwords the gameboard has been changed so then have the rules.

The same bleeding heart liberals that are out in our streets protesting the very fact that our troops should not be in Iraq getting killed for what they deem to be a nothing war are the very same damn bleeding hearts that would now have us string up the very same marine to the highest tree. Sounds like left over Kerryism to me.
The Geneva Convention this, the Geneva Convention that, don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the articles of the GC, however they only work when both sides are accepting of them and abide by them. The only ones abiding by the GC are the coalition forces and it's costing them their lives. Any species of people (and I use the word people very losely)that would use commercial airplanes as missles to take out buildings and obliterate lives are not in the least concerned with rules, much less abiding by them. I would contend that those that are yelling the loudest of their contempt of this fine marine would also yell loudest should the terrorists take over this nation and make these bleeding heart liberals subject to their wrath. They should pray heavily that God hears their cries, because surely no one else will. I know that I won't no matter how loudly their voice should become.
The definition of war: Kill or be killed
Let these men and women do the job that they have burdened with and thank God that they are willing to do what they do and shut the hell up.