Posted on 01/15/2014 10:28:46 AM PST by nickcarraway
With Fallujah back under the control of Sunni insurgents, the nightmare of Iraq in 2004 is alive again. Today, TMZ published eight horrifying images, allegedly taken nearly a decade ago in Fallujah, which appear to show U.S. Marines posing next to dead bodies, soaking them in gasoline, and lighting them on fire. The gossip site claims to have published just a few of the 41 photos it obtained "Many are just too gruesome" and the military has opened an investigation.
"The actions depicted in these photos are not what we expect from our service members, nor do they represent the honorable and professional service of the more than 2.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Commander Bill Speaks, a spokesperson for the Pentagon, in a statement. "The Marine Corps is currently investigating the veracity of these photos, circumstances involved, and if possible, the identities of the service members involved. The findings from this investigation will determine whether we are able to move forward with any investigation into possible wrongdoing."
There is no statute of limitations on violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The upsetting pictures are not the first of their kind and track with known abuses in the region by U.S. forces at the time. According to a 2005 report from Human Rights Watch, "The torture of detainees reportedly was so widespread and accepted that it became a means of stress relief for soldiers."
The recent fall of Fallujah has brought that time to the surface again for some troops. "It's just like, wow, thanks for dragging up all these memories I tried to forget that were controlling my life," one soldier told the New York Times recently, calling photos of the recent developments "nauseating." "For a while I lived out of a bottle trying to shut the memories off," he said.
Hummmm, 1.21 million murdered U.S. citizens (babies) or, as the left likes to call them, abortions, in America each year or 55,772,015 murder victims, defenseless babies, (abortions) in America since Roe vs. Wade in 1973.
TMZ is getting their panties all knotted up in a wad over a few scumbags getting burned, probably after getting killed for shooting at said Marines....WoW! Talk about some really F’ed up priorities. Look into 1.21 million murdered U.S. citizens a year...there is your news.
Oh **** tmz... I have the pictures of the bodies of Blackwater contractors which the terrorists mutilated, beheaded and burned after they hung them upside down on a bridge in Falluja. I just want the pukes that gave these pictures out to be dealt with by those that can deal with it.
TMZ are a bunch of whiny leftist homosexual urbanized mentally and physically weak fools. They’re occasionally amusing, but their priorities are seriously wrong.
The muslims used jet fuel on 9/11 to burn trapped people in the WTC.
yes but it’s ok for mandela and her thugs to burn people alive.
Un wad your panties, North. Jihadis adhere to a subhuman ethic, they get what they get.
They burned bodies in Galveston after the hurricane in 1900.
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I looked at their gallery of nine pictures and I didn’t see anything “horrifying.”
I have an idea ...lets pull our troops out of Iraq and let Iraqi humanity restore itself!
oh
wait
well the lefties sure get offended by Kermit Gosnell’s victims’ photos, don’t they?
Leave our troops alone
I don’t know burning bodies to prevent disease spread is a common thing particularly if you can’t safely bury.
I guess TMZ thought it was okie-dokie for the jihadis to burn American contractors’ corpses on that bridge and splash the photos around to the world’s media, though...right?
And those people were alive when they burned ... unlike the corpses our Marines burned.
In respnse to 9-11 we killed mohammedans by shooting, stabbing, explosive concussion, fragments and shrapnel, crushing, burning, oxygen deprivation, and likely a few other causes of death I can't think of at the moment.
IT'S A WAR! People get killed in wars, and it's ugly. If the mohammedans don't want to get killed in wars, they shouldn't start wars.
But that's beside the point ... the pansies at TMZ are getting upset over a field expedient method of corpse disposal. That's retarded. And a handful of jerks on this forum are trying to pretend that our enemies aren't human. That's evil.
Oh, for heaven's sake. It was just a remark. Do you really think any Freeper believes Muslims are not human beings?
Though I will admit, they're as far down on the civilization scale as they can be and still be classified as human. Probably a little pig DNA in there, maybe....
It's not just a remark, it's a mindset ... and not a good one.
>> Though I will admit, they're as far down on the civilization scale as they can be and still be classified as human. Probably a little pig DNA in there, maybe....
I presume that's intended to be some sort of joke. It's very informative, though.
Once again: Burning large numbers of corpses has nothing to do with what the deceased allegedly deserved. It has everything to do with keeping the living from joining them. Lots of rotting corpses spread fatal diseases. That's somethnig TMZ fails to understand. You?
There were lots more bodies burned on Iwo Jima.
For the same reason that eating horses which have to be put down is a problem.
People are intrinsically idiots.
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Say it again! Muslims burned LIVING people on 9-11. Living people, screaming and frying as they jumped covered in jet fuel. Are we supposed to care about burning DEAD Muslims? I wouldn’t be against burning LIVE ones...all of them!
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