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Thursday, November 18, 2004
Stand By Our Men (and Women)
Slagle has a round-up of some of the blogosphere posts about the "Mosque Shooting" video. You know which one I'm talking about. The one where the insurgent (who may or may not have even been an Iraqi) was faking death, the Marine (who had faced this before) shot him, and the sleezy embed exploited the opportunity. Yeah, that one.
Here's my $.02... Granted, I can't read the Marine's mind... but... he yelled 3 (that's THREE) times that the guy was faking it... doesn't that seem like a perfect opportunity for said insurgent to surrender? To say "you got me! Now, please take me to a hospital!" But no, he continued to try to "fake it." There was another insurgent in the same room... he surrendered... he's still alive... does that tell you anything? This Marine had spent several days watching the insurgents break every "law" in the Geneva Convention that they could break... this Marine was responding accordingly.
Not because he's an animal, but because he had spent enough time fighting for his life against the animals.
Go, visit Slagle's site... click on his links, and sign the petition. Stand by our Armed Forces.
Here's my $.02... Granted, I can't read the Marine's mind... but... he yelled 3 (that's THREE) times that the guy was faking it... doesn't that seem like a perfect opportunity for said insurgent to surrender? To say "you got me! Now, please take me to a hospital!" But no, he continued to try to "fake it." There was another insurgent in the same room... he surrendered... he's still alive... does that tell you anything? This Marine had spent several days watching the insurgents break every "law" in the Geneva Convention that they could break... this Marine was responding accordingly.
Not because he's an animal, but because he had spent enough time fighting for his life against the animals.
Go, visit Slagle's site... click on his links, and sign the petition. Stand by our Armed Forces.
