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Marines video: What’s your reaction?
Washington Post blog ^ | 1-12-12 | Haley Crum

Posted on 01/12/2012 7:01:06 PM PST by bigbob

The Marine Corps said Wednesday that it is investigating the origins of a video on the Internet that purports to show Marines in combat gear urinating on the corpses of three Taliban insurgents.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marines; nicework; piddlingmatter; pisstaliban; semperfi; taliban; urinating
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To: mnehring

Hey Liberals:
If a crucifix submerged in urine is “art”
The dead taliban covered in Jarhead pee is a FRIGGIN MASTERPIECE.


That’s a Freeper masterpiece, mnehring!


61 posted on 01/12/2012 8:06:44 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: bigbob

Unprofessional behavior that may be demonstrating insecurity and frustration on the part of those desecrating the bodies.


62 posted on 01/12/2012 8:07:07 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: NavyCanDo; A_perfect_lady; Cyman
The conduct would be covered by the The Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations, as follows:

6.2.6 War Crimes under International Law

The following acts, if committed intentionally, are examples of acts that could be considered war crimes, but would not be considered grave breaches of the [Geneva] Conventions:

2. Mutilation or other mistreatment of the dead

The only question would be if this provision includes the mistreatment of non-uniformed dead combatants (such as Taliban fighters).

I am all in favor of killing the enemy. Once the enemy is dead, however, I am not in favor of desecrating the body. This view is not unique to me. This is the traditional view of civilized societies, including the United States, and it has, as far as I know, always been a part of our military code.

I expect our guys to act better than the enemy.

Of course I am much more repelled by the abominable, murderous, brutal conduct of the muzzies than I am by a few of our guys pissing on those bodies. A reprimand or some other mild form of discipline might be in order, though. What they did, while understandable emotionally to some extent, should not be condoned or excused.

63 posted on 01/12/2012 8:08:36 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: bigbob

I guess those Marines were really pissed off!

Note to Taliban...Don’t piss off the Marines or else!


64 posted on 01/12/2012 8:12:10 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Todd Palin gets my vote for toughest first dude ever!)
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To: castlebrew

Thanks!


65 posted on 01/12/2012 8:12:19 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: bigbob

But why did they urinate on those Talaban?

Because they couldn’t reach the liberal media talking heads from that spot.


66 posted on 01/12/2012 8:13:35 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: bigbob

They should’ve eaten asparagus first.


67 posted on 01/12/2012 8:16:04 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: bigbob
The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012

Remember this?

As I recall it's about a war with Iran.. in 2012 -- written by a military officer as the Clintonoids were assuming power (1993) with plans to dismantle the military into global-meals-on-wheels service and a "social experiments" lab.

Well the Clintons did everything they could including IMO covering for the Islamists (political Islam, jihad and sharia law advocates) who attacked and killed Americans all during the 1990s leading to 9/11.

Now Obama intends to dismantle the military. Period.

Well, Obama should have read this document; if he's screws up the military so much that the predicted war with Iran in 2012 goes badly, he could very well see this prediction from 1992-93 come true.

68 posted on 01/12/2012 8:17:47 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: bigbob

Piss happens.

Semper Fi.


69 posted on 01/12/2012 8:17:58 PM PST by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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To: bigbob

not promoting it but really which is worse, peeing on the dead corpse of someone who tried to kill you or letting hundreds of thousands of POWs starve in the mud and filth with no water and no medical care like Ike did.............hmmm


70 posted on 01/12/2012 8:18:51 PM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bigbob

I’m mildly annoyed that there is a video. OPSEC, guys. Other than that, pee at will. At Abdul too.


71 posted on 01/12/2012 8:21:17 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: bigbob

They wouldn’t let me take the poll. What were the results?


72 posted on 01/12/2012 8:21:40 PM PST by altura (Perry 2012)
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To: Billthedrill

When you gotta go, you gotta go.


73 posted on 01/12/2012 8:23:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: bigbob

Haven’t seen the video but heard some holier than thou comments.

It seems like much ado about nothing.

I’m on the side of the marines and I’m sick of people pi**ing on our troops.


74 posted on 01/12/2012 8:24:05 PM PST by altura (Perry 2012)
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To: bigbob

When the Islamist capture a marine, they behead him on live TV, seems to me this incident pales in comparison.


75 posted on 01/12/2012 8:25:13 PM PST by swamprebel (Where liberty dwells, there is my country.)
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To: bigbob
Leon Panetta is a candy-@ss Rear Echelon MFer.

Of course, he's got no problem using these young men as hitmen (see The Whack On Osama Bin Laden)...

76 posted on 01/12/2012 8:26:31 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Iron Munro

I thought he squatted.


77 posted on 01/12/2012 8:26:51 PM PST by satan (Plumbing new depths of worthlessness on a daily basis.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“The NAVY should have p1$$ed on Obama, er, that is Osama before they tossed him overboard!”

Who says they didn’t?


78 posted on 01/12/2012 8:29:14 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: bigbob

They did not go far enough. They should have dropped a duece on their face and then fed them to pigs.


79 posted on 01/12/2012 8:36:29 PM PST by WMarshal (Where is the next Sam Adams? Getting madder every day)
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Honor pissing vs honor killing. Tough call.


80 posted on 01/12/2012 8:39:15 PM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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