[Slam]

War is the ugliest of all businesses. It is the worst, the most despicable thing we humans do to each other. We ask young men to do the work of the devil For US (we sanction it)and then are amazed when they don't act like angels?

[RippleFire]

a court martial for shouting at a chaplain

What next, failure to raise a pinkie while sipping tea?

[My Identity]

"This is how they show their appreciation to me, by sending me back to Canada."

Oh, the horror, the horror.

[Argus]

American plans to award Bronze Stars to all five Canadians have now been delayed.

Why? These guys deserve not just medals, but instant US citizenship. If Canada doesn't want her own heroes, we should welcome them here.

[Bigg Red]

Maybe this young man should have gone to Pali and al Queda combat school where he would do less shocking things such as disemboweling and dismembering dead combatants and targeting civilians.

[AUgrad]

Cpl Perry has been sent back to Canada to face, instead of a hero's welcome, a court martial on discipline charges, reported to be in connection with threatening remarks he is alleged to have made to the Canadian chaplain during a "stress debriefing".

A sniper has one of the most stressful, dirtiest and least appreciated jobs in the world. So what if he blows a little steam. They should cut him some slack.

[DSHambone]

I'd trade any chaplain for his weight in main gun ammo - about four rounds.

[Tacis]

Perhaps, the Cpl. should suggest that the chaplain fondled him and made inappropriate advances, as chaplains do, and that is why he yelled at the pervert.

[jlogajan]

This is the same logic that football players at high schools and colleges use to get favored treatment.

Look, in the military there is a chain of command. MacAurthur might have wanted to chew Truman out, but the chain of command works the other way.

[spunkets]

"We ask young men to do the work of the devil For US...

It's not the work of the devil at all. It's a person's work of defending Life and Freedom against the onslaught of muderous jihadist will. There's nothing sinister, or evil about the deliberate destruction of the forces of evil.

[Grig]

The 'culture of distain' belongs to the Liberal Party of Canada (who recently bought old broken down subs for the military and shiny new executive jets for themselves) not to the nation of Canada.

[another cricket]

"We ask young men to do the work of the devil

What do you want to bet the chaplain said something similar?

a.cricket

[Prodigal Daughter]

The details about the chaplain are conspicuously absent. Maybe he was a Muslim chaplain?!?!

[Psycho_Bunny]

It is the worst, the most despicable thing we humans do to each other

I deny it's the "worst".  One of the "worst", maybe.  But, even then, there have been perfectly honorable wars which could be described as, so far from being despicable, entirely necessary and proper.

I was just hearing on the Northwest Cable News about police in Washington finally finding the body of a missing 13-year old girl who - it turns out - was abducted, raped, and stabbed to death.  I consider THAT far worse than armed combatants going into battle forewarned of their possible fate.

When using words like "worst" you really need to think twice about what you're saying...unless, of course, you consider all war as being worse than capital victimization of innocents.

[wardaddy]

Ridiculous.

[VOA]

...a photograph showing the corpse of an Afghan fighter with a cigarette in its mouth
and bearing a sign reading "F*** terrorism".

Today's Los Angeles Times has a photo of a funeral for a Palestinian.
The departed is shown laying in a open coffin, with a cigarette between his lips.

Article said that it's a traditional thing.

[RightOnline]

The Canucks are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off on this one.

Leave the kid alone. Medal 'im up, promote 'im, and let him go kill bad guys.

THAT is what they trained him for, damn it.

[B4Ranch]

"Canadians don't kill -- they don't even use the word kill; that's the problem," he said. "I think the military is not sure that the government is prepared to accept the fact, let alone celebrate the fact ... that Canadian soldiers do sometimes end up killing people."

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020423/3932.html

I can just imagine what the conversation between the sniper and the chaplain was like. The chaplain trying to convince him that he didn't kill the enemy and the sniper saying, "Well his friggin' head exploded and he didn't shoot back at me fer chhrissakes."

[Snowyman]

Southam Newspapers here reported yesterday that the Canadian Government would be "very honoured "if the U.S wants to award the metals. Three snipers to receive a Bronze Star and two to receive a Bronze Star with distinction.

Master Cpl.Perry has been sent home charged with a disciplinary charge and is accused of unbecoming conduct relating to a picture he took of a dead Afghan.

Some how I doubt Perry gave any interviews to any reporters (jmho)

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Wow, this sounds like the attitude towards our Military in some circles here in the U.S....