“As an ex-soldier, I find no fault with their actions. If anyone is offended, sorry about that but learn to live with it.”
And this is where I’m torn.
As a soldier it’s unprofessional and doesn’t do us any good in a day and age where the media is already looking for any little thing they can to make us out to be knuckle dragging barbarians. Heard some talking head the other day trying to link this back to the actions at Abu Ghraib.
As a human being who has witnessed atrocities by the people we have fought in Somalia...Iraq and now Afghanistan...I think it’s a dead terrorist getting about what he deserves.
Oh, I understand the unprofessional aspect of this but I’ll give it a pass during a shooting war and in light of the past actions our enemies have exhibited.
And, I could care less what the anti-war crowd, including a media/press that shows bias towards our enemies, wants to complain about.
I wasn’t that upset with Abu Ghraib either. The military handled that situation well from what I read so outside second guessers can once again get over it and live with it. Their views are not worth the substance used on those dead Taliban soldiers.
Just heard William Kristol on FNS. He’s right. Let the military handle such a low level minor incident.
What is really despicable is what our own Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense said and making a bigger issue of this than deserved.
Compared to a John Kerry or a Dick Durbin or any number of other Democrats, our Marines are choirboys.
This came in to me this morning so I’ll pass it along.
Subject: Rep. Allen West (R-FL)
West To Pundits & Armchair Quarterbacks: “Shut Your Mouth”
No doubt you have heard about the latest “Abu Ghraib” incident — a video of Marines allegedly urinating on the bodies of Afghan terrorists. Our media and political elites have offered their effusive apologies. As always, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) had some choice words of his own. Here is West’s statement, courtesy of our friends at The Weekly Standard:
“I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”