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(Hoax, see posts 256-271) Video captures grinning U.S. Marine throwing yelping puppy off cliff in Ir
Daily Mail.co ^ | 4th March 2008 | staff writer

Posted on 03/04/2008 6:36:57 AM PST by yankeedame

America's shame 1: Video captures grinning U.S. Marine throwing yelping puppy off cliff in Iraq

Last updated at 13:49pm on 4th March 2008

The U.S. military are investigating a shocking video of a smiling Marine throwing a puppy off the top of a steep hillside in Iraq into a gully below.

The video gained widespread attention and condemnation after appearing on the web site YouTube, where it has been viewed over 8,000 times.

The footage shows two Marines, in combat gear and smiling, as one holds a white-and-black puppy by the scruff of its neck.

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Sickening: The grinning soldier holds the puppy aloft
and then throws it off a hillside

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The small dog seems to be about eight weeks old and is motionless as it is held.

"Cute little puppy, huh?" says one Marine as he smiles broadly.

"Oh so cute, so cute, little puppy," says another in a child-like voice.

The Marine holding the puppy then turns and hurls the animal overhand into a desert-like gully below.

The puppy can be heard yelping in terror until it thuds to the ground at the bottom of the gully.

"That's mean," one Marine says after, in a sickening understatement.

"The video is shocking and deplorable and is contrary to the high standards we expect of every Marine," a spokesperson revealed.

Marine spokesman Major Chris Perrine believed the culprit is based in Hawaii.

"We do not tolerate this type of behaviour and will take appropriate action," he said.

The 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment of about 1,000 Hawaii Marines recently replaced a sister unit in Iraq, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.

Marine Corps Base Hawaii said the vast majority of Marines "conduct their duties in an honourable manner that brings great credit upon the Marine Corps and the United States."

"There have been numerous stories of Marines adopting pets and bringing them home from Iraq or helping to arrange life-saving medical care for Iraqi children," said Major Chris Perrine.

"Those are the stories that exemplify what we stand for and how most Marines behave."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hoax; marine; puppy
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To: dead
“Dude you just make things up and write them down. I never once said I found a joke like that funny, but your whole argument is based on that contention, which you’ve completely invented.

I meet all kinds of weird people on the internet.”

No, you DO find it funny. Lying isn’t becoming - even you you ... “dead”. What an odd moniker ... fitting for an odd person ... I know what you mean about meeting all kinds of “weird people on the Internet”.

221 posted on 03/04/2008 9:49:44 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: yankeedame

Probably faked by supporters of the Obamunist.


222 posted on 03/04/2008 9:51:17 AM PST by exile ("Get off my phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
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To: longtermmemmory

Let’s not insult the puppy!

I’d bet that puppy is sweeter than Hitlery.

If the video is true, let’s give the little puppy some respect.

;)


223 posted on 03/04/2008 10:02:20 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: dead; All

I’m glad I’m late to this party.

We need more info, like who posted this. But I can tell you now that if it’s a a toy, I’ve seen the same done and Monty Python and laughed my butt off.

We are told these are actual marines and that it is a live puppy so we believe it. Sorry gang, I need more evidence before I believe either. I’ve seen better on Veoh or YouTube. And it wasn’t done specifically by military haters to discredit them.


224 posted on 03/04/2008 10:07:33 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: nmh
No, you DO find it funny.

As I said, you just make things up.

I never said it was funny. I never implied it was funny. In fact, I said it was dumb and inappropriate.

But you, through the magic of some sort of internet voodoo psychic friends juju, have somehow entered my brain and will correct my interpretation of my own reaction to the video.

As I said, weirdos abound on this internet of Al Gore's.

225 posted on 03/04/2008 10:07:37 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: netmilsmom; dead
I went to watch the video, but YouTube has pulled it for an unspecified rules violation. Curious what that's about.

I'm skeptical. Like Southack, I think the fact there are two camera angles from the top and base of the cliff make this appear staged. The lifelessness of the puppy is odd, too. Nothing in the pictures can locate this in Iraq versus any other arid place, such as the American Southwest.

I'm ex-Army, but don't Marines today wear uniform patches with unit, name, rank, etc? I see nothing on these uniforms.

I'm skeptical until I get more info, as the Daily Mail should have been. Shame on them.

226 posted on 03/04/2008 10:13:16 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: dead

Me: No, you DO find it funny.

As I said, you just make things up.

I never said it was funny. I never implied it was funny. In fact, I said it was dumb and inappropriate.

But you, through the magic of some sort of internet voodoo psychic friends juju, have somehow entered my brain and will correct my interpretation of my own reaction to the video.

As I said, weirdos abound on this internet of Al Gore’s.

Me: If I were you, I’d stop now.

You’re making an utter fool of yourself.

I know it’s terribly important for YOU to have the last idiotic word so, go ahead!

I’ve got better things to do than argue with someone like yourself ... .


227 posted on 03/04/2008 10:16:07 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: yankeedame

If this is true, I honestly hope all of these guys and their families contract cancer.


228 posted on 03/04/2008 10:28:21 AM PST by jmc813 (Chris Peden is a New England Patriots fan)
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To: BGHater
It’s just a dog.

People that say things like this are typically miserable human beings, I've noticed.

229 posted on 03/04/2008 10:30:18 AM PST by jmc813 (Chris Peden is a New England Patriots fan)
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To: roses of sharon

OK, we get it.


230 posted on 03/04/2008 10:32:46 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Experience Change!)
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To: colorado tanker

“I think the fact there are two camera angles from the top and base of the cliff make this appear staged. “


There is no second camera angle, where did you get that from?


231 posted on 03/04/2008 10:33:42 AM PST by ansel12 (Ronald W. Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr., both were U.S. Army veterans.)
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To: yankeedame

That’s a classic sign of a serial murderer. I can only think back to that video of Saddam’s henchman throwing those guys off the bridges, and here this animal is over there, the firing squad for him or else we get to deal with him murdering and raping when he gets back.


233 posted on 03/04/2008 10:34:38 AM PST by Scythian
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To: ansel12

Picture number four.


234 posted on 03/04/2008 10:38:23 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

I saw the video earlier then I went to watch it again and it got pulled. To me the film was continuously filmed. If these were Army guys, there would be an American flag on the shoulder. Marines and Sailors do not wear any patches that are on the sleeves of the blouse, they have rank devices on the collar. The flak vest does look authentic but it looks like there is no SAPI plate inserted in the chest. The poor quality of the film does make it hard to see if the uniform is the DUU’s or the Marine Desert ditigals. The first thing I thought of was what weapon the person might be holding, but I could not see it at all up until the last half of a second before the film ended, it appeared to be something that looked like a rifle butt under his arm.


235 posted on 03/04/2008 10:40:07 AM PST by SeabeeDet01 (OOORAH SEABEE!!)
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To: BGHater

” second, at the very least the military deserves to be treated innocent until proved guilty. The fact that there is some ‘video’ on the Internet showing a bad act does not change my stance until something is proven in a courtroom.

If they did do it then, it was bad. However, it is not the end of the world. The mere fact that you are joining the MSM propaganda machine initially without waiting for a decision by the military is troubling to me.”

AMEN!


236 posted on 03/04/2008 10:54:42 AM PST by cizinec
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To: cizinec
Combat affects different people different ways. If you haven’t walked the mile, don’t judge.

I'm a "mile walker"....

IF this is real, their senior NCO and a couple of junior NCO's should make these two turds eat dog sh#t, beat the cr@p out of them and then ask them if they'd like to go to the C.O. for office hours after they get out of the sick bay.

They hurt all Marines with bullsh#t like this. Immature and idiotic.

No, killing innocent stuff isn't a way to handle stress. Going out at night into the boonies and hunting for bad guys is how to handle stress. Killing bad people always makes it better.

I'm never going to trade a dog for a man, heck I wouldn't even trade a civilian in country for one of my men...... but if I ever caught one of them pulling a stunt like that, then FILMING IT!!!! and then posting it. I'd have my boot so far up their rear that they'd pray to go to a court-martial instead of office hours and possibly meeting me again.

IF and I mean "IF" these guys are Marines, they have dishonored themselves and, by wearing the uniform, every other Marine. They should call Murtha for a job and be done with it.

237 posted on 03/04/2008 10:57:57 AM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: colorado tanker

“Picture number four”


That still is from the video and the same camera and angle, it is not from the base.

That shot is the start of the dogs descent as the camera follows it down to the ground below the cliff.


238 posted on 03/04/2008 10:59:35 AM PST by ansel12 (Ronald W. Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr., both were U.S. Army veterans.)
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To: colorado tanker

Like I said, I would need to know who posted it. It seems just too contrived to me to have a couple of guys with a puppy being launched for all the world to see.

Come on, hurting puppies? It’s just so cliche.


239 posted on 03/04/2008 11:01:06 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: Dick Vomer
So... what do you really think? Don't hold back this time.

(Well-said)

240 posted on 03/04/2008 11:01:55 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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