[snarks_when_bored]

We have to be realistic. Sites was tagging along, videotaping whatever happened, with the permission of the Marines. He didn't know beforehand what was going to happen when they went into that armory mosque. He happened to have his camera on the Marine who shot the guy. What was he then supposed to do, erase the footage? Refuse to publish it? Turn it over to the Marines? (Even if he had turned it over to the Marines, who believes that it wouldn't ultimately have come out?)

The point is, the situation is not wholly his fault–which is not to condone the frenzy that the Arab media and the rest are trying to whip up. From what I've read and heard reported, the Marine who fired the shot had every reason to be suspicious of guys pretending to be hurt or dead. I probably would have shot the guy, too. We've already got more prisoners than we need in this terror war.

[MEG33]

He could have turned it over to DOD..He knew this would incite and if ONE Marine loses his life to a "dead " or injured insurgent because of this video uproar I hope he suffers...but doubt he will.

[mtntop3]

"He happened to have his camera on the Marine who shot the guy. What was he then supposed to do, erase the footage? Refuse to publish it? Turn it over to the Marines?"

The answer to all the above is an unequivocal YES. We are in a war in which millions of lives are involved. The keyword here is SURVIVAL. Wartime rules apply - one of the crucial being discernment in the dissemination of public information.

[Little Ray]

You are absolutely correct.

The fault belongs to the pantywaists that think you can win a war without brutally crushing and killing your foe. Can you imagine these cretins' response to Iwo Jima where only 212 Nips out of 22,000 were taken prisoner? Or to Saipan where Japanese civilians suicided rather than surrender? To Dresden?

This is moronic. The Arabs should be told "D@nm straight you're next if dare to take up arms against us." The pu$$ies in the media should be told "That's how you fight a war, moron. You kill the b@stards."