I totally agree with the words below. I am sick of people who have never picked up a weapon and certainly has never had one pointed at them talking as if they are the authority on the subject. At some pont in time we need to finally realize the US forces aren’t the enemy. The same spineless punks that want go are the ones that are so fast to pass judgement.
It was that way in Vietnam, Korea, World War II as well as World War I.
The people who get all the protection want to spit on the ones doing the protecting.
God bless the men and women that serve this country. If you don’t like how they are doing it. Call them home and go yourself. Other wise set in your recliner with your big fat mouth shut.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines’ video, and has given us permission to publish it.
“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.”
January 13th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Couldn’t agree more!
January 15th, 2012 at 12:34 am
War is awful and brings out the worst in some….and yet sometimes brings out the best in others…still, I would not want to go through it.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:09 am
1-As far as telling people who have not been in combat to shut up,regarding this incident, I suggest this applies to “conservative” politicians trying to get elected President.
2- Why was a video made of this incident?