[Ron in Acreage]

The AP calls the insurgents "prisoners". They are/were not "prisoners". They were terrorists.

[luvie]

So, what if he did! That's one less terrorist to maybe kill one of our brave troopers!!!

[Kurt_D]

One dead terrorists is one potentially saved American soldier.

[RedWhiteAndBlueBlood]

I'm willing to look the other way on this one.

[Domangart]

Looks like a killer faking death to me.

[saquin]

Am I a horrible person for hoping there's some terrorist attack or atrocity in Iraq tomorrow (as long as no U.S. soldiers are killed) that takes this damn story off the front pages?

I am?

I thought so.

[Partisan Hack]

I am horrified over this shooting. The insurgents are following the Geneva convention to the syllable, fighting the noble fight, and we pull a stunt like this.

[Lijahsbubbe]

So this is the big story now for the Bolshevik MSM.

No big story or film of woman with arms and legs cut off.

No picture of Van Gogh with his head nearly sliced off and a note impaled to his body.

How I detest these scum. May I get to see their downfall and disgrace.

[Graybeard58]

The guy was doing his job. What's the problem?

[The KG9 Kid]

I want to know why the USMC supply chain ran out of room-clearing grenades -- the proper and liberal use of which would render this entire media-created 'scandal' entirely moot.

[CWOJackson]

The Geneva Convention decribes the rights that must be extended to the uniformed members of a legitimate military...and what can be done to those in combat who aren't.

[TheCrusader]

"The U.S. military is investigating whether a Marine shot dead an unarmed, wounded insurgent during the battle for Falluja..."

The truth is that in this conflict you can never really know if a man is unarmed.

These terrorists and insurgents wear layers of robes that have hidden many a deadly bomb over the years. Perhaps this Marine may himself have lost friends to this treacherous brand of warfare. Our forces in Iraq are not fighting conventional forces and to try to fight them with conventional rules jeapordizes the lives of our fighting men.

[Mr. Mojo]

If today's media/leftists have such a difficult time seeing actual terrorists - many of whom fake their deaths only to surprise our men with gunfire &/or bombs - get shot they never would've been able to handle seeing what our Marines did to Japanese soldiers during the island-hopping years ('42 - '45). .......let alone the firebombing of Tokyo, Hamburg, and Dresden.

PC wars kill.

[Pastnowfuturealpha]

What I noticed - We don't hear what the terrorist are doing until something like this happens. What is missing in the media -

I guess those terrorist see nothing wrong with waving a white flag - then fighting - or faking death - then trying to kill someone who passes them - or setting traps on dead bodies - all not mentioned by the investigating forces over there - it's only when one on the U.S. side does something that the media goes wild -

The major media is a disgrace -

[nothernlights]

Can't we do something like emails to all networks saying that if they think they are going to repeat the fallacies of Vietnam in trying to sully the brave US Marines that will indeed be the death of their media.

[mlocher]

The human rights organization Amnesty International raised concerns about violations of the rules of war last week, after a British news program broadcast video of what it said was the killing of another wounded insurgent by U.S. troops.

Amnesty also noted reports that insurgents have used mosques as fighting positions, and in one incident appear to have used a white flag to lure Marines into an ambush.

ai actually blamed one on the terrorists! of course, nothing will ever come of this because the terrorists are not aligned with any state (hahaha).

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

don't know all the facts yet, but one thing is for sure, the dead man didn't tell this story. The cameraman told this story.

To this I must ask, why only one bullet?

[Seaplaner]

Knowing what teensy info that I know after seeing the tape on Hannity and What's-his-name, this young and tired Marine may very possibly have seen a movement or even heard a noise, anything that conveyed a threat signal for him and his buddies.

If MSM takes the terrorist's side on this (he wasn't a prisoner) then they lose even more public trust.

[FredWolfe]

If that were me I would have shoved a grenade up his pie hole.

[Peace will be here soon]

""About a block away, a Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a shootout with insurgents.""

Makes you kind of mad that the media is being so critical of the way our military fights its battles, when you have this kind of stuff going on. Kick the media out. Let our military do its job and get them back home.