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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Absolutely. Obama's way to piss on the U.S. military. We can all piss on him on election day.
If it were me, I might be jumping up and down on them after I killed them. This is war. They tried to kill the Marines. The problem here is they recorded it.
Vietnam ‘69
“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:”
Exactly
This is the treatment Osama Bin Laden should have gotten.
Vote ABO.
Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
It washes off with water.
How would that be done? These were reported to have been taken by a cell phone.
Exactly.
If these Marines had not pissed on the Taliban corpses, the Afghans would really really like us.
WOW!
Reminds me of Chesty Puller’s cousin, Georgie and his own P!zzing pic back in the old days!
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Buchenwald/GeneralPatton.html
This incident, if true, shows a breakdown in discipline.
Wizzing on their dead bodies is as far as I would be willing to go.
Same here. I bet more than a few Marines pissed on dead Japanese in WW2.
Oh...Muslim are so thinned skinned that this will drive middle of the road Muslims into killing Americans. What a bunch of balloon juice. If the wind blows funny these jerk-offs will blow themselves up.
“Oh...Muslim are so thinned skinned that this will drive middle of the road Muslims into killing Americans. What a bunch of balloon juice. If the wind blows funny these jerk-offs will blow themselves up.”
History of the last 1,400 years supports your thesis. In light of that, I suggest it is time to play Cowboys and Muslims.
Let the nuking begin!
The thing more stupid than taking a vidro of this is identifying the unit in the video .....How stupid can you get !!!
I don’t care if our boys pissed on the Goddamned taliban.
so... it’s ok to shoot them in the face... but peeing on them is strictly taboo
I’m fairly certain if you could ask the guy, he’d have preferred being peed on over getting shot/stabbed/blowed up
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