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Originally Posted by buggyone
If Allen West cannot remember the films and the anger of Americans of the soldier's bodies being dragged through Mogideshiu, the bodies hung on a bridge in Faluja or beheaded soldiers - he has a very short or a very selective memory. There was massive American outrage at all of those.
Those videos of Marines ****ing on dead bodies will be used as Taliban or Al-Quaida propaganda to recruit more terrorists against the US.
Wrong of the Marines to do it in the first place and downright stupid to video it and show the video to others.
As for going to prison for such a thing, I would not agree. Reduction in rank to Private and the other items mentioned by Allen West would be appropriate. This is not a prison offense but just exhibited gross stupidity on the part of the Marines involved.
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It wasn't the Marines finest hour, to be sure. But this is not a cotillion, as a great general has said. If you want a polite war use only air power and then go to sleep in clean white sheets afterwards. These marines on the ground there have witnessed all kinds of atrocities first hand, and understandably have a different mindset from those here judging them from the comfort of their Lazy Boy recliners.
At most an Article 15 is in order and a reprimand. I can walk into any funeral home in this country and do what these marines did and not face the consequences that some are demanding toward these young men we put in harm's way.