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Video of US Marines In Afghanistan

If the video is accurate and the soldiers identified, they should not be worried about being prosecuted, they should be worried about being beaten to a pulp by other Corp members.

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I would think that it would be wise for one to refrain from making such criticisms until one has been there and done that. One must walk in those shoes before one knows what it's like to do so.
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Old 01-12-2012, 09:49 AM
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I would think that it would be wise for one to refrain from making such criticisms until one has been there and done that. One must walk in those shoes before one knows what it's like to do so.
Sorry, that would mean that we would have to give "a pass" to any nation's military or combatants that does the same. Those kinds of "heroes" don't deserve it.
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Old 01-12-2012, 09:55 AM
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Sorry, that would mean that we would have to give "a pass" to any nation's military or combatants that does the same. Those kinds of "heroes" don't deserve it.
Agreed. Apparently part of the reason we are there is to bring civility and democracy. If we can not exercise those values, why should they.

I bet Larry would have had a different comment if it was US soldiers corpses being peed on.
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I would think that it would be wise for one to refrain from making such criticisms until one has been there and done that. One must walk in those shoes before one knows what it's like to do so.
Don't you hate it when someone reviews a situation out of context?
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Personally, I'd rather not "walk in the shoes" of an animal who'd pee on a corpse. Nor would I like to walk in the shoes of someone who'd make excuses for such behavior.
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Personally, I'd rather not "walk in the shoes" of an animal who'd pee on a corpse. Nor would I like to walk in the shoes of someone who'd make excuses for such behavior.
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Personally, I'd rather not "walk in the shoes" of an animal who'd pee on a corpse. Nor would I like to walk in the shoes of someone who'd make excuses for such behavior.

Just more evidence that you haven't walked in those shoes. I'm NOT saying it's right and I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying that unless you've been in such a high stress day to day life, you have absolutely NO WAY of knowing what you would do.
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Just more evidence that you haven't walked in those shoes. I'm NOT saying it's right and I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying that unless you've been in such a high stress day to day life, you have absolutely NO WAY of knowing what you would do.
Last I heard the US military was an all volunteer force. You don't want the stress don't volunteer. These idiots need their asses kicked right into Leavenworth and the key thrown away.

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Marines are trained to deal with battle. There is no excuse nor defense for such disgusting actions even in a war environment.
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Who cares, they're dead. Pieces of rotting, putrid flesh.

But it is poor sportsmanship and there's no need putting guys who play on the same team in more jeoprady by poking at the hornet's nest.
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Last I heard the US military was an all volunteer force. You don't want the stress don't volunteer. These idiots need their asses kicked right into Leavenworth and the key thrown away.

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Key thrown away? as in life in prison?

Graner only got sentenced to 10 yrs and served 6 1/2. AFAIK, his was the steepest punishment handed down in Abu Ghraib. And they were live prisoners, not dead enemy.

If the video is real, and the if soldiers can be identified, brig, court martial, bust to E-1, dishonorable discharge, credit for brig time served. Done.
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Sounds like we have quite an introspective group here. It would require LOTS of introspection to have the slightest understanding of what these guys deal with, much less how they react to different situations.

If it weren't for them and maybe more importantly those who fought before them, we would be living in a much different America.

Maybe some of you need to volunteer to take their place since you could obviously do so much better at it.
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Video of US Marines In Afghanistan

If the video is accurate and the soldiers identified, they should not be worried about being prosecuted, they should be worried about being beaten to a pulp by other Corp members.
Yep. It is at least 3 levels of stupid. #1 doing it. #2 recording it. #3 distributing it.

Courts martial for all. get some chain of command asses, too. The only way to make sure the lesson sticks is to cashier some brass, too.
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Sounds like we have quite an introspective group here. It would require LOTS of introspection to have the slightest understanding of what these guys deal with, much less how they react to different situations.

If it weren't for them and maybe more importantly those who fought before them, we would be living in a much different America.

Maybe some of you need to volunteer to take their place since you could obviously do so much better at it.
I'm confident that your position on this matter would be identical if the video showed Taliban fighters urinating on dead U.S. Marines...

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