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Some marines got a little gun happy...
Dexter:
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on November 16, 2004, 08:27:55 am ---all that Marine saw was a combatant who should have been dead.. for all he knew that soldier could have been laying on a pistol or worse a grenade..
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The same reasoning as Saddam could have had WMDs and could have launched them within 45 minutes. Here we are 18 months later with 100,000 innocents dead. Thats a lot of blood for the sake of hypothesis.
Could have doesn't cut the mustard.
LONDON (Reuters) - A television pool report by U.S. network NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Falluja.
Kevin sites the reporter who witnessed the killing said the shot prisoner "did not appear to be armed or threatening in any way."
On the video: marine says "He's fu
DYNAGOD:
--- Quote ---The same reasoning as Saddam could have had WMDs and could have launched them within 45 minutes. Here we are 18 months later with 100,000 innocents dead. Thats a lot of blood for the sake of hypothesis.
Could have doesn't cut the mustard.
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both yours and my feelings on the war are irrelevant in this discussion so please lets not fog this discussion with such matters.
i agree with you that the wars a farce, so your preaching to the choir..
the fact of the matter is that soldiers are there regardless, they are dying regardless, and people are tying to kill them and when it comes down to a you or me situation i would take no chances as he did.
--- Quote --- "In a combat infantry soldier's training, he is always taught that his enemy is at his most dangerous when he is severely wounded."
If the injured man makes even the slightest move, "in my estimation they would be justified in shooting him."
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the bottom line is that US soldier is still alive and thats all that matters to me.
thats what it is to be a patriot..undying, unwaivering support even inthe face of opposition. you dont have to like the justification for the war to support your fellow brothers..
6 months ago that kid was probobly 17 years old ,skipping school sitting on his couch playing Xbox.now suddenly hes thrust into the middle of an all out warzone figthing for his very life..most of these kids arent mature enough to understand the sensitivity you want them to emote on the battlefield. they just want to stay the f%ck alive,at ANY cost..
give them a break..
Dexter:
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on November 16, 2004, 10:15:31 am ---the fact of the matter is that soldiers are there regardless, they are dying regardless, and people are tying to kill them and when it comes down to a you or me situation i would take no chances as he did.
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Soldiers of any invading force are always 'there regardless' where they shouldn't be, be it Poland or Iraq.
To the best of my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong) the marine in question is 22, well over the age of responsibility for their actions and able to tell right from wrong. If he cannot operate within the boundaries of the Geneva convention he has no business carrying a lethal weapon and making life and death decisions regarding another human life.
Under the Geneva convention you are obliged to care for injured enemies once the area is secured and then their safety is your responsibility from then on. But I suppose you can't ask somebody to fight justly in an unjust war.
Harry Potter:
Nicely outlined and boxed.
rchadd:
the USA way to win hearts and minds...blow their heads off