January 13, 2012
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Peeing on Dead People
Some of our finest troops are coming under fire because of a video of them peeing on dead Taliban troops.
Here is the video:
Do you think it is wrong for the U.S. troops to pee on the dead Taliban troops?
Some of our finest troops are coming under fire because of a video of them peeing on dead Taliban troops.
Here is the video:
Do you think it is wrong for the U.S. troops to pee on the dead Taliban troops?
Comments (121)
WOW! Yeah, I think it’s wrong. They’re already dead… why do such a thing?
Pee… ALL THE THINGS!!!
It’s completely disrespectful.
It’s almost as bad as the video of them beating a sheep to death with a bat.
Yes.
I hope the Marine Corp sends the video to Iran and Jihad Central, Afghanistan.
It’s wrong to insult the dead period.
Silence!I Kill You! Never insult a dead terrorist!
Killing them’s cool, but peeing on them after they’re dead is wrong???
Oh come on, really? :I
Just sad…
I wonder when it is that our troops… American people… lose their sense of humanity to this point…
Dear Dan,
I’ve been saying Xanga has been slowly turning into tmz.com for at least half a decade now.
This is proof.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
(My browser doesn’t want to play the video. Probably a good thing.)
Of course it’s wrong. Many things that happen in war are wrong. Many things that happen outside of war are wrong. Somewhere some Marines are horribly disgusted by this group’s behavior. I was in the Navy, I know any one group of military people may go and do something stupid and disrespectful. They are people afterall.
lololol, THIS IS MY FAVORITE XANGA BLOG TITLE EVER. That was one fucked up video…
ugh that’s just embarrassing
I know, I should take this seriously but honestly, does anyone actually think it’s ok to do that? War sucks and what it does to people sucks even more.
I think it’s wrong but I also think I wouldn’t expect any other thing
it’s wrong to pee on a person, dead or alive. as simple as that. the fact that it is done on the dead, well, that just adds the weight of shame and degradation on the dead. maybe that’s the whole point of the act purposely done by those troops. no respect what so ever. to think they are the better people than the people they were fighting against. how sad.
I think it’s awful, but, then, these dead guys weren’t just trying to kill me.
It’s wrong that there is any question about it’s wrongness.
You don’t pee on dead people. Ther should never be such racial hatred for that.
i mean if you can’t pee on dead people then what/who can you pee on nowadays ?
Of course it is wrong! Would you like someone doing that to you or someone in your family? It is disrespectful no matter what! Plus the point is that these people are setting the wrong example. They are supposed to serve and protect not act like total jackasses. Would they like it if someone did that to their relatives? I bet not! I think there should be a maturity test if there isn’t one already before accepting people into the service. If they can’t be mature enough to serve their country respectfully then they have no business being in the service. I’ve never been in the service cause obviously I couldn’t do that for many reasons, but I do have family in the service and this makes me so angry and ashamed for them. It is also disrespectful to what the services stand for. I hope they get what they deserve for their stupidity!
Absolutely wrong. @TiredSoVeryTired - Right here. Apparently, they were part of a scout/sniper section operating in the bush for awhile. Does not excuse their behavior whatsoever, but does make one wonder what the tolls of this conflict are.
Wrong. Absolutely wrong. You don’t do that to the dead. There’s no need. It’s completely disrespectful I understand these people were trying to kill our troops & whatnot; but once they’re dead – there’s no reason to act inhuman & desecrate the bodies. Have some respect for the dead, I am sure if we found out Taliban troops were doing this to our dead troops – there’d be such an uproar. It’s just disrespectful as I stated. Let the dead have their peace, no matter who they were when they were alive.
It’s easy to to say it’s wrong when you live comfortably judging people from your i-products but I for one have never seen my friends killed next to me so if I had the chance I would piss on anyone that tried to kill my close friends dead or alive.
These are common individuals. If you notice not even one dare being different. They are servile.
They’re already dead, there’s no need to pee on them. It’s a shame… I can’t imagine being in a war that would make me think it’s ok to do something so disrespectful, no matter how angry I was.
Is it wrong? Sure. (on more than one level, actually) Ultimately though, I think that there is far more outrage over this than is really warranted. Maybe I’m a bit callous to many of the horrors of war but then when you’re fighting an enemy who has no hesitation airing videos of decaputating those they catch alive, having someone peeing on one that is already dead doesn’t seem quite as bad. Again, I am not saying it’s right, nor am I saying that those who did it should not be dealt with by their superiors as a result. Clearly they should as it undermines the nature of the war that our military on the whole is trying to wage. But with how publicized this has become, I have little doubt the situation will be handled and so I suppose I can brush it off, knowing that those who did it will be punished.
wowzers! U.S.M.C.
yes it is wrong.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - I’m a Navy veteran. It’s always wrong to desecrate a dead body. It’s one thing to vent frustrations out and quite another to disrespect a dead body.
I just wanna know who the hell came up with the idea?!
I’m fairly certain it would never cross my mind to piss on anyone, dead or alive!
These actions don’t really surprise me. A war zone is where the grunts show their true faces, after all.
And yeah, in any way one tries to rationalize it, those soldiers are on the wrong.
Oh wait, I am one citizen who express an opinion comfortably behind an “i-product” so I should not have a word.
But we can blame the massive uproar by social media. Culture of knowing and expressing have changed – you need to be discrete about these things.
They were being typical americans, give these guys a break, they are in a foreign country with no bathroom.
You do not pee on anyone.
It is wrong to pee on someone who has died.
wrong, disrespectful and inhuman.
America’leaderrs rejected this act and said it would punish those involved in this. My question is, where is the muslim world when their guys cuts our peoples heads off and pees our troops. No one ever says anything. Not even those muslims that live in America. I wonder about their silence and who’s side they are really on.
all i really can say is wow , i think multiple guns shot are enough,
the real question is how often has or does this happen ???????????
TOUCHYOURHEARTSOFTLY313
see thats exactly whats wrong with the world , so after u kill and piss on your enemies is ok for them to retaliate and piss on you@Kevin_is_a_pirate -
Of course it’s wrong. It’s downright disrespectful and shows a lack of moral fibre. Disgusting.
morally wrong. unethical. no honor at all.
I find this disturbing.
THEY DID NOT EAT ASPARAGUS BEFOREHAND.
This is wrong no matter who the dead are, imo.
hopefully, lesson learned. do not videotape the celebratory dance of the conqueror. bad karma and very average wieners “/.
The U.S.M.C does the best that it can to screen and pull out the best in people but a few Jackasses still make it through.
So when you watch the videos, don’t focus on the uniforms they’re wearing becuase they’ve all lost the right to wear them. They’re probably wearing new prison uniforms now. Instead focus on the 4 guys and the camera man actually committing this act, and you’ll probably be reminded of the Jackass you’ve met growing up.
Wrong, but then again, I sometimes feel like spitting on the graves of dead Nazis. I think it see it as more wrong because I am not affected by the Taliban directly, and have some distance so this whole thing is more of a “phenomenon” to me. We wonder HOW COULD THEY DO WHAT THEY DID? and want to take revenge on them, but they are a.) already dead and b.) the ugly truth is we are ALL human and all not so un-alike. The best thing we an do is try and understand how they thought, so we don’t think and act the same way, and in my opinion gestures like this are only giving power to the “evil” in us.
@Lithium98 - Yeah exactly you know why? Cause when you’re out in combat they’ll shoot you dead so make them die for their country instead of dying for yours. You like your safe warm bed you like your freedom of speech you the military doesn’t have the same rights they have even stricter laws within the military and they will be punished very harshly for that and peeing on the terrorists will follow them for the rest of their career and in a bad way.
I hate this. I saw this on the news and I find it upsetting. They’re dead, no matter what or who the person was don’t be jackass and do things to the body it only makes you look bad not them their soul isn’t there anymore.
To me, it is disrespectful to do such things to the dead. We do not know what type of people these troops were. I do believe (I could be wrong) that some of these Taliban troops do not have the choice to be in the their military, so they may not have believed in this war they are in. Maybe. None the less, I think doing such things to the dead is a sin what ever God our troops believe in, may just pee on them
Arrogant and wrong – Who’s the idiot that took the video?
For some reason, in my sick and twisted way, I find this funny. Maybe it’s because of the way that the Taliban treats women. Hell, smear fesces in their faces too.
Total wrong.. that’s a terrible disrespect.
animals kill bc it’s in their instinct. people kill because they want too. so i guess for people killing is wrong in the first place. then peeing on someone you killed is just ….
that’s absolutely disgusting. they should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes they are desecrating the bodies. They took it a step too far.
Okay, I’m going to break from the pack here and talk about how disgusting I find the Taliban. I loath their genocidal actions against the Hazara in Afghanistan. I abhor the inhumane way they stone women for all offenses… making sure the women die in the most public and painful way possible. I hate their tactics of fear and terrorism, burning down schools to make sure that young girls don’t learn. I despair when I think that Taliban troops regularly threaten Afghan civilians, promising them that when the Americans leave “we will still be here and we will know who collaborated with the US troops.”
If anyone deserves to have their corpses pissed on, it’s the Taliban.
Yeah, these Marines were unwise in getting caught on camera. They allowed their emotions to take over and have disgraced American military tradition… but frankly I can understand their motivations. The US marines in Afghanistan are extremely young men (average age of a US Marine is only 20 years old) who live in fear and see their friends get wounded and die. I can understand why they would want to piss on the corpses of the fighters they killed. Still, it was a breach of the rules… a serious offense in a military outfit as disciplined as the US army.
The actions in this video, in my opinion, are a far cry from the nightmarish images of soldiers physically and sexually humiliating prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This is not Haditha where US soldiers were captured on camera killing civilians- including women and children- in Iraq. This is not Mai Lai in Vietnam back in the seventies where hundreds of children were killed by troops. Those incidents just absolutely turned my stomach.
This video is just of a bunch of Marines understandably- but unlawfully- acting out their frustrations against the bodies of the troops who have been terrorizing and killing them. These men should be court-martialed and disciplined according to the regulations that apply here. But my outrage meter is not going to tick up sky-high over the actions of these soldiers.
How would anyone be expected to be taken seriously, by anyone, ever again, if they had peed on a dead person?
Pshhh no it is NOT WRONG to pee on a group of people who spend their whole lives bombing innocent people and dying in the name of MURDER. Get the fuck out of here! They are not human, they are worthless. It’s like peeing on a piece of dead wood, WHO CARES. Let’s respect their dead bodies while the rest of their group plants some roadside bombs. They are not “trying” to kill our troops, they DO kill them and they DO kill other innocent people on a daily fucking basis. Shame on you Taliban loving hippies. -_-
this is bad because there is no reason for that. they are dead, that ought to be enough. there are other reasons, too, why this is causing the uproar that it is. the first being that the US is trying to work things out with the Taliban, and come to peace, and these “marines” just threw a wrench in those workings. the other thing is that the Taliban have an american soldier hostage, when they see their men getting pissed on by these assholes, that soldier’s as good as dead. no questions asked. i understand that those men are angry and frustrated, and they need a way to vent. i’m not insensitive to that. they were stupid to vent that way, and even if they REALLY couldn’t control themselves, they shouldn’t have recorded it. they’ve shamed the rest of the marines, who have do have respect for the dead.
Yeah, I’d say it’s pretty disrespectful. Sending us videos of our troops being beheaded is a lot WORSE in my opinion, but that doesn’t make this right. Whether or not you agree with what they’re fighting for, how would you feel if you were a family member of one of these dead men?
I come from a military family and usually support our troops 100% (my son has been in for close to 25 years) but this was just wrong. And what’s worse is that they even film their actions.
I see this as the inevitable end of this particular mission creep. And I hope it encourages the decisions of those deciding when and where to use our fighting forces to leave that place for the devil to finish. Or, as an alternative, offensive drones can fly almost anywhere and rarely piss on anybody, especially on camera!
@npr32486 - Agreed. Being stuck in an isolated microcosm does shit to people.
Peeing, defacating and even spitting on people, living or dead, is a violent, vile and stupid thing thing to do. It defiles the humanity of the doer and sends a message to the foe’s advocates that: A) They have won, in the court of public opinion and B) They can rattle the other side’s sensibilities, at will, just by their existence.
Personally, I think that is overboard but I wouldn’t lose sleep over it. Those soldiers are stressed completely the fuck out and not altogether there, mentally that is. It’s war…shit like that happens. I mean their dead, right?
@phoebester -
I agree.
Pretty sweet. Religious people should generally be pissed on, especially if they celebrate when American marines and soldiers are killed in action.
@Shadowrunner81 - As funny as that comment was during the comedy show…
Yeah deff sick. I mean that is just despicable, wrong and disgusting…
Two things – First, military teaches to treat your enemies with respect. Sure, you can kill them, but maintain pride and be respectful. Second, I see no weapons in the pictures. Are we assuming they were unarmed, or the weapons were moved before they all decided to relieve themselves?
I am going to explain the complicated thought behind this for all of the PEOPLE who are not willing to really take the time to think about this. I will use the movie the Gladiator for a reference. War IS NOT PRETTY do you expect them to put flowers on there Grave? So in the movie Gladiator His family was killed right? You along with everybody else thought “I cant wait till He gets the bad guy?”. This Is the kind of thought that pushes even the best to revenge. These men are taking out aggression that is pent up from other situations. Its not pretty to see your best friend blown up or cut open with a time bomb sewn inside his gut so when you try to pull him out he blows up along with your arm or leg. I urge you to look up Stanford Prison Experiment and just imagine that x100. Then because you are a “smart person” take a good look at who is in charge of the whole experiment. Not the gaurds… Not the Prisoners… Yup…You got it, Professors!!! So please take the time to get involved with our government. Take time to not point fingers at the people doing the action but who is making this happen and why?
@SasGal - They don’t teach to treat your enemies with respect. they teach us to be proffesional. There is a difference.
Someone’s going to bitch at me for saying this, but there’s a whole lot of douchebaggery in the military.
Not to say that all soldiers are douchebags. These men are incredibly brave for fighting, but incredibly stupid for doing this.
The Taliban is evil. Evil evil evil. They deserve much worse than this, but we don’t need to stoop down to their level and fucking pee on them.
@twosidedme - Part of being professional is treating everyone, including your enemies, with respect. It should go without saying. Maybe someone should update let the soldiers on what it means to be professional. Or is this it? Is pissing on your enemy professional?
@SasGal - Ma’m, being profesional has nothing to do with respect whatsoever. I’ve ran across people who I had to treat profesionally without respecting them whatsoever. Respect is earned, not given. Example, I was a guard at a facility with detainee’s. Did I ever respect those bastards? Hell no. Did I do my job in a profesional manner? Hell yes, because they weren’t worth my rank. And as for updating the Marines on being professional… most are. you just have that 10% like in every other group that ruins the image and rep for all. What these Marines did is wrong. But what made it even worse is that they recorded it and uploaded it. Geez, you think people would have learned not to take still photos or video’s after Abu Gharib.
@stopandreallylook - I agree wholeheartledy. This isn’t exactly summer camp in the poconos. This is war. It’s not supposed to be pretty despite the Geneva Convention that’s supposed to be followed. Even the, the GC emphasizes humane efforts as much as possible when fighting the enemy. These victims were already dead. Should USMC piss on them? No…but at that point – it’s mute topic. Smh
@twosidedme - I guess I get a different side of the 10% coming from a military town. We get guys coming back from deployment excited about showing pictures of playing poker with dead Iraqis, and all sorts of degrading shit. If it’s not the ones acting unprofessional, it’s the ones taking the pictures, or the ones showing the pictures, or the ones laughing about the pictures and thinking there is no problem with anything depicted in them.
I get that war is a terrible and difficult thing to deal with for soldiers. There is NO excuse for this.
@SasGal - I’d rather have them vent out their frustrations and emotions on an enemies dead than, have them come back home and flip out on our own people. But until you’ve served, or ever been on the front lines, then you’ll TRULY understand.
yes but they do a lot of things that are worse. And Vice Versa
@sometimestheycomebackanyway - Yes, but yet we can’t release the supposed Bin Laden death pictures because we can’t risk fueling terrorism, right?
I think all you people who are saying its wrong ought to consider who your troops are peeing on! ..these animals hate every one of you! they want you dead! hate your kids, parents, freedoms, and everything about you.
as a Canadian I urge you to rejoice that your troops are peeing on dead terrorists, and its not the other way around, support your troops!
political correctness is a western weakness and it is a one way street when dealing with islam as they give no quarter to us, maybe you have forgotten 9:11,
my comment will be removed by spineless people who dont want to “offend anyone”, but my words are only offensive because they are true,..this act on video is a triumph that i applaud and these men have earned by watching there friends butchered over there
On another matter, I love America, and love to go to New York, It really makes me sad to see halal meat being sold on every corner of N.Y.C. and people lining up to buy it and they dont even know they are financing the very people who murdered 3000 of your own American brothers and sisters, very sad
@twosidedme - My dad was in Vietnam for 8 years, lost friends, had his helicopter shot down and yet he is still disgusted by such behavior. So i don’t think the shortcoming here is civilian understanding, i think it’s about compassion for the fragility of life. Everyone has family. And perhaps these soldiers snapped, or perhaps they just don’t respect life at all. I can’t say what drove them, but either way the act itself is condemnable and just part of the repeated disrespect of human life that comes with war itself.
@Lithium98 - Another valid point. War itself, is the abomination. Love cannot come from such seeds as the seeds of war.
@temporarilyinnocent - I also wonder if we ever had it.
yep. entirely wrong.
@whyzat - No one knows what they were trying to do. Insurgents, if that’s what they were, are insistent on having their country un-occupied by foreign troops(kinda like the Revolutionary War). That’s separate all together from them trying to kill you. Remember, you are thousands of miles from them, and yet have sent soldiers up in their space, covering their land in craters.
@twosidedme - What is there to understand that this shit is not right? I have spent years volunteering for troop support organizations. I have seen amazing men and women from the military. I know that there are a lot of incredible people in the ranks. I also know there are a lot of digusting people in the military who do things like this. No, I wouldn’t *rather* they piss on a dead enemy’s body. I would *rather* they talked to someone, a chaplin, a mental health counselor, or whoever their superior officer is. I would RATHER they didn’t get the attitude that they were above all life on the planet, and god’s gift to the world. I would rather the military was a group that clung tightly to their convictions and refused to do things that disrespect themselves, their unit, and their country.
You think I don’t get it? Well, I don’t. I watched a Major trauma nurse slip into depression and take her own life because of what she saw after 4 tours in Iraq. Do you think she had anything to do with this sort of act? Prisoners whom she had cared for had sent her letters thanking her for her respect and compassion for a human life. I get that people are disgusting and wish us harm and want to destroy everything. I get that to win wars, these people have to die sometimes (probably most of the time). What I don’t get is going so far as to piss on a dead body… Yeah, they sound like they are having a terrible time, all smiles as they whip their dicks out.
@whyzat - said it perfectly. When someone is trying to kill you, it is probably normal to have a little hostility toward them, even after you have killed them.
Yeah, very disrespectful even if they were their enemy.
@baldmike2004 - Although TMZ has posted this, they usually focus on idiot celebrities. Not videos that will create more terrorist propaganda. This will absurdly cost more soldiers their lives.
@stopandreallylook - You DO know that those people weren’t ACTUALLY guards and prisoners, right? It was a study (I won’t call it an experiment, because it didn’t have enough control to determine cause and effect)… people signed up to be a part of it… So, of course a professor was behind it. Are you accusing professors of starting wars based on a simulation? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
I feel like one of my good friends who is a Marine said it perfectly.
“I don’t see why everyone is making a big deal about the Marines pissing on dead Taliban fighters. As I recall, 10 years ago on 9/11/01 3,000 plus United States citizens died as a result of a terrorist attacks. So the liberal media can kiss my ass. I back those Marines 100%”
Quite frankly, I see no issue with this. At least their families can find their bodies, unlike the ones left unfound at Ground Zero.
@jaydedheart - That’s what the politicians say. A US Marine always knows where of he pisses. And why.
“We have a problem here Jane. You’re trying to kill me and I find I’m caring less and less for your well-being.” – John to Jane in the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but after all the mind-boggling inhumane monstrous acts committed by the Taleban against women in general and our people, military or not, I find I don’t give a damn about their well being or whether or not they deserve respect. I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care. In fact, I don’t consider them to deserve respect whether living or dead. Respect should be earned, not assumed. They’ll have no feelings of respect from me in any manner, shape, or form.
@jaydedheart - I think it would be hard to separate anything from the fact that they were trying to kill me. Nobody right now knows what was going on there. I know why our troops are there and why they’re resented. Like I said, I don’t approve of it, but I’m not going to try to get anyone demoted for it.
I don’t get why men like to pee on things so much. Does it have something to do with the fact that they can do it standing up or are they all just a little retarded in general when it comes to bodily functions?
As a former Marine, there is no way in hell I can condone this action. This is conduct unbecoming a United States Marine, and these dudes should be given some time in the brig. Unfortunately, I still don’t think punishing them will cure their stupidity and lack of honor.
@Ampbreia - Your opinion of the Taliban has no bearing on how Marines are supposed to conduct themselves, and that’s probably why you aren’t one. It also probably why these guys won’t be Marines for much longer.
Yes but who knows what the Taliban are doing to American Dead? War is Hell….
@canadiansforusa - I am a Marine, my father and two uncles were Marines, my great-uncle was a fighter pilot in the RCAF. You obviously haven’t been raised with the same traditions of honor and decency that exist within my military family. I couldn’t think of a more base and despicable form of collective joy than for Americans, Canadians, or people of any nationality to rejoice at the defilement of a human corpse. There is no honor or dignity in such an action. We are humans, not animals.
@alwayslighter - Tell your friend from one Marine to another, that he has no honor.
@monkie_dance - Cost soldiers (Marines) more lives? Maybe these Marines should have thought about their Corps before filming something that could be used in a propaganda video, hmmm? When exactly do people take responsibility for their own actions? Has this entire planet gone bat-shit crazy?
Absolutely. It shows zero respect for the dead and makes America look bad. I have heard from some that they are just bodies, objects. No, they are dead human-beings.
if you think you are better than they are morally, then don’t; if you have no problem playing at their level, then by all means
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1812055,00.html
I think it’s wrong to pee on dead people in general, regardless of if they’re Taliban.
Three times in three comments you mentioned you are a marine, pretty proud of that fact it would seem! you also say that I “obviously haven’t been raised with the same traditions of honor and decency that exist within my military family” what a load of crap.
you forget that you are commenting on marines pissing on corpeses and you yourself are saying its terrible, so dont give me the honor of a military family garbage, military men are no better than anyone else, so get offf your high horse!
you are lovin this because you get to tell everyone “I am a marine”
try defending your fellow marines, and not by telling the world what a honorable man you are. your comments are very funny
As a combat-wounded veteran of 3 tours to both Iraq and Afghanistan, I would like to chime in. Yes, it’s “wrong”, like everyone has said… because “you don’t do that to dead bodies.” Look at the bigger picture. More importantly, it is NOT what the United States of America stands for. Just because the Taliban are barbaric does not mean we lower our standards to their level… that is total bullshit. Even MORE importantly… the Taliban is a gang. Do you think that the Taliban is not going to be extra certain to exact revenge on US troops? Watch… I guarantee you within the next couple of weeks, there will be some major attack on US troops as a retaliation for what these clowns did.
These “Marines” are an absolute disgrace to the United States of America, and should receive the harshest punishment possible for shitting on everything that troops in the past and present are doing over there to try and keep the United States out of harm’s way, and provide a better life for the people of Afghanistan.
@canadiansforusa - I don’t think you are paying attention to what he is saying. People keep bringing up “You’re not in the military, you don’t understand” and he is responding with YES I DO understand. You think he is dishonorable because he doesn’t agree with marines pissing on dead bodies? You certainly have your shit backwards. Then again, you don’t seem to care about what a man in a uniform is representing for his country when he acts dispicably.
YOU are what we call a BIGOT. Take your racist remarks and go to hell with them.
Lady! you are the one who has it all backwards, I didnt say he is dishonorable for not liking what those guys who peed on the dead terrorists did , so you need to read a bit slower…., He is the one who said that about me, so get your facts straight, and who are you to call me a BIGOT, I grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland, so I know about honor and bigotry and terrorism but I can assure you of one thing….you wont find anyone in Pakistan or Afganistan verbally attacking the people who are killing your soldiers, they remain silent, and so should you if you cant defend your own people…
@SkyyL - You Got it.
Basically, I thought Marines were supposed to be the good guys. Yes, the Taliban are evil. Yes, they were an oppressive regime that took civil liberties and ruled with an iron fist. Yes, if the roles were reversed, they probably would have done the same thing. But does doing what the villains would do in the same situation still make someone the good guys?
Of course it’s wrong, but to be honest, I’m not surprised. I guess this is a step below the troop that posed with the dead bodies for photo-ops. This is billions of taxpayer dollars at work.
Why the f*ck are you posting about this, because it’s simply a current event? This is stupid and embarrassing. Again. We’ve already seen them make prisoners have sex with each other.
I didn’t watch the video, and I won’t, I don’t want to. To be honest, I want to say I expect more of soldiers…but I’m not surprised at all knowing these are U.S. soldiers.
The backstory needs to be taken into account. The taliban doesn’t mind beheading people who are bound and unarmed. The taliban often commits rape on those deemed infidels. It is like the famous Viet Nam shooting of the captured viet cong fighter by a police chief in the mid Viet Nam war. The backstory explains inhuman acts. It doesn’t excuse them, but it makes them understandable. Get the entire story, not just the soundbites. As a nation we follow “spin” so often no wonder we are all dizzy.
th first thing that came to mind is the many soldiers who have been crippled and killed by the Taliban. No wonder that these soldiers despise them! I would be furious if I hear they are punished for this. A war none wanted and was politically started makes me furious. I think if these politicians each had a child who came home minus a limb or stressed out , they just might regret what they have done.
Dishonorable discharge in order?
Some people’s corpses deserve a lot worse.
uhm… it makes me feel bad so it must be wrong. Personal opinion would be no. but i know that’s just wrong.
That is soooooo disrespectful.
Wars are usually just pissing contests anyway, aren’t they?