Shot him in the head
While the embedded TV reporter rolled the tape.
Abu Ghraib redux: the image of the good work of the thousands of soldiers for the people of Fallujah wiped out by one over exhausted soldier- POW: “He’s dead now.”
How many times a day will this video play on al-Jazeera vs. the tape of the Marines giving out food and water?
CNN played the tape three times within one 10 minute segment. Its very bad to killed a wounded guy point blank when there’s no threat. Even if he was shooting at you yesterday. So was there a threat?
CNN: About a block away, a Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a shootout with insurgents.The human rights organization Amnesty International raised concerns about violations of the rules of war last week, after a British news program broadcast video of what it said was the killing of another wounded insurgent by U.S. troops.
Amnesty also noted reports that insurgents have used mosques as fighting positions, and in one incident appear to have used a white flag to lure Marines into an ambush.
Another recruiting tool against the people who are trying to bring liberty to the Iraqi Nation and for the car bombers who kill civilians at indescriminately. And the star of the film is an American again.
The thing that sets us apart from the terrorists is the rule of law, morality. While the action may be understandable in the context of this prolonged battle, when the enemy is breaking every rule of war, when yesterday a wounded terrorist killed an American soldier, when the soldier himself was wounded a few hours before, summary execution of prisoners is not the best America, and we know, not the true America.
Brain Shavings: Keep in mind that our side isn’t the bunch that decapitates hostages, targets civilians, fakes white flags, and lures the opposition in with fake wounded. There could very well be a satisfactory explanation tht mitigates what seems (at first glance) to be a war crime. Give the NCIS time.
Right on Red: “We are at war with a murderous, totalitarian, racist ideology which has no remorse or honor, and swears allegiance to no country. If American Leftists were as outraged by the enemy’s atrocities as they are by our mistakes, we’d be a lot farther along in this war. The terrorists’ worst nightmare is a united United States.”
Ace:“It also has to be noted that these guys have played dead before. And that “playing dead” is not surrendering. And that if you’re not surrendering, you’re a legitimate target.”
David notes the unconditional support from some on the right: “They more or less say the Marine was justified no matter what the circumstances were. ”
Say anything: ” This sort of thing is the exception, not the rule. Also remember that the incident will be thoroughly investigated by our government and the people responsible for it will be punished for it if found guilty. The enemy who we are fighting against routinely commits war crimes with impunity.”
In the Bullpen: What strikes me as being the most infuriating thing about this is that reporters have all but ignored attrocities committed by the terrorists in combat, yet when a story that shows a United States soldier in a less than honorable light it’s front-page time.
Digger: All you smart guys out there who have never served a day in combat can kiss my ass. Apparently a day or so before, in a similar incident involving the same unit, a dying terrorist blew himself and a soldier up. You only have a split second to react. At the most this soldier should be reprimanded.
Six Meat Buffet: What should have happened is, once the mosque was identified as an enemy base, it should have been annihilated completely – killing ALL insurgents inside. I suppose that would be considered offensive to the Religion of Peace™, though.
The Command Post notes another article on the treatment of wounded enemy: The new patients at the field aid station screamed out in agony as they were gently laid on stretchers. Fresh from the battlefield, flies swarmed around their infected wounds. US army medics barked out orders beside the makeshift triage beds.
Rusty has a clear view: Kevin Sites, more interested in a Pulitzer than in the lives of American soldiers, has stolen the victory which was Fallujah and handed us defeat….In war, propaganda is a weapon.
And this from Protein Wisdom: If enough prone terrorists have fired at you, you learn to kill prone terrorists before they can pick up another gun. Simple as that. In short, you react to the tactics of your enemy, not to ethical hypotheticals—and no simpering retrospective sanctimony should obscure that very real fact. Period.
I was just watching some analyst discuss how under the Geneva Convention, you are allowed to kill a sleeping enemy. And then I came across this at the Conservative Revolution: I was pissed because FoxNews made it sound as if this Marine did something wrong.
Cross posted at The Left Right Debate .
