Posted on 01/12/2012 5:28:20 PM PST by Nachum
Top U.S. officials moved swiftly Thursday to try to prevent diplomatic damage and contain public disgust from the release of a video that appeared to show Marines urinating on three Afghan corpses — images that spread quickly around the globe. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said he had viewed the video and considered it “utterly deplorable.” He telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai and pledged a full investigation. Prior to the call, Karzai described the video as “completely inhumane and condemnable in the strongest possible terms.” His administration called on the U.S. military to “apply the most severe
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You pansy.
If this actually took place, it should be condemned.
Actually I thought it was appropriate, otherwise those bodies may begin to STINK.
Piss on Penetta.
I’ve heard that urine is sterile (even if the pisser ate pork).
Patton, pissing in the Rhine
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Buchenwald/GeneralPatton.html
Taliban Corpsemen?
lol. I know that is what the old tanners used.
It is an action that is going to damn these otherwise fine young men and their careers,they should not have done it and they should certainly not have filmed it.
“If this actually took place, it should be condemned.”
Agreed.
They may have used bark (tannin) too.
I don’t have a single problem with this. Our soldiers are trained killers. It’s what they do and they’re damn good at it. What’s next? A front page story about them not holding their pinkies out when drinking tea?
Piss on the Taliban...
DUH!
Video is the weapon of the 20first Century.
I agree pissing on them is not shall we say best practice unless they were uberjews(pissors) They should have faked pig fat bullets and then wrapped them in pork and burned them.
These Marines were pissing on dead enemies - which is forbidden going back to the Lieber Code of 1863.
Art. 47.
Crimes punishable by all penal codes, such as arson, murder, maiming, assaults, highway robbery, theft, burglary, fraud, forgery, and rape, if committed by an American soldier in a hostile country against its inhabitants, are not only punishable as at home, but in all cases in which death is not inflicted, the severer punishment shall be preferred.
Art.71.
Whoever intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted, whether he belongs to the Army of the United States, or is an enemy captured after having committed his misdeed.
Art. 75.
Prisoners of war are subject to confinement or imprisonment such as may be deemed necessary on account of safety, but they are to be subjected to no other intentional suffering or indignity. The confinement and mode of treating a prisoner may be varied during his captivity according to the demands of safety.
The UCMJ:
893. ART. 93. CRUELTY AND MALTREATMENT
Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
912. ART. 112. DRUNK ON DUTY
Any person subject to this chapter other than a sentinel or look-out, who is found drunk on duty, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.
So, as you can see, there is a real difference between a symbolic act of defiance and desecration of a dead enemy. Patton understood this point. Patton fought hard but fair.
Two words!!! Daniel Berg!
Agreed.
But, enough of the global hyperventilation over peeing on a dead body.
“completely inhumane” B.S., inhumane is when you hurt an innocent animal to watch it die. These animals were already dead. These soldiers don’t owe Taliban fighters any respect.
(still don’t know why someone has to film this stuff, it only serves to bite them later)
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