Posted on 01/12/2012 12:23:17 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Pentagon condemns alleged Marine misconduct in graphic video
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday harshly condemned the alleged desecration by U.S. Marines of the corpses of Taliban fighters, after a video showing the actions went viral on a number of Internet sites this week. The Pentagon chief said he'd ordered a full investigation into the alleged incident, which comes amid sensitive diplomatic initiatives to try to advance reconciliation efforts with the Taliban.
"I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable," Panetta said in a press statement sent to Yahoo News Thursday. "I condemn it in the strongest possible terms."
The video-which Pentagon officials had not yet definitively authenticated--appears to show four American Marines urinating on the corpses of three Taliban fighters. (Due to its graphic content, Yahoo has posted an edited version of the posted video from ABC News, which you can see above.)
"Have a nice day, buddy,' one of the alleged U.S. Marines said on the video.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday "condemned the video, describing the men's actions as 'inhuman' and calling for an investigation," Reuters reported.
Panetta called Karzai Thursday to convey his horror at the alleged incident and promise a full investigation, Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
Panetta told Karzai "that the conduct depicted in the footage is utterly deplorable, and that it does not reflect the standards or values American troops are sworn to uphold," Little told journalists in a press readout of the call Thursday. "The Secretary also noted in the conversation that he has ordered that the video be immediately and fully investigated."
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This deserves just as much hype against Hussein as there was against Bush for Abu Ghraib. More hype, really, because Hussein was supposed to be the Saviour of the World.
I’m trying to find out just what exactly the problem is here. I keep watching that video over and over and I just can’t see it. Is it that their aim wasn’t very good?
All four should claim to be gay. I’d love to see how that would play out.
Shoulda been pig pizz.
More B.S. derived from treating terrorists like they are enemy soldiers with rights. Bush started this “religion of peace” nonsense and it fit right in with B. Hussein Obama’s Muslim proclivities.
Bottom line: the folks they were pissing on would not hesitate to kill thousands of innocent Americans if given the chance.....F’ em’.....
I am just not getting this. The islamic thugs dismember the ones they kill what’s a little piss?
If I were these Marines’ C.O., I would have dealt with this incident very firmly on the spot and would have told these soldiers:
- OK, knock it off
- Give me the damn camera
- get back to work
As if these Marine, by pissing on their dead asses, had somehow did this to an ally...?
Last time I looked, these terrorist scum were the enemy. Kill 'em and piss on 'em. Way to go, Marines. Next time, be sure to drink some sort of pork kool-aid before you do it.
Orchestrated to smear the military at the same time the Defense Department is being gutted. Obama - winning hearts and minds. ;-)
Sounds like leon has some sand in his vagina. I can’t believe this is any kind of big deal. Pissing on dead terrorists should be mandatory.
To the LSM these mujahadeen are freedom fighters and members of our military are the evil terrorists.
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya Kumbaya my Lord...
Isn’t pissing on bodies some kind of twisted gay fetish thing? Since Obama homosexualized the military, I suspect this will be an increasingly common occurance.
Maybe their names were Mohammed and the acts were a take-off on the “Mohammed, peace be upon him” blessing.
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