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U.S. Marines Urinate On Dead Bodies In Afghanistan

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The U.S. Marine Corps has launched an investigation into a video that purports to show American Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban members.The video, posted on YouTube, shows four Marines peeing on three dead bodies lying in the dust in front of them. In the 40-second film, the soldiers are laughing, and one of the Marines jokes, "Have a great day buddy." A second man is heard saying, "Golden, like a shower."The men in the video are not identified. A caption on YouTube says the men are part of the "Scout Sniper Team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune." A senior Marine Corps official told CNN that the men are wearing helmets typical for the Marine corps sniper teams and that their rifles are 30-caliber sniper rifles.The video also has been brought to the attention of the Marine Corps headquarters."While we have not yet verified the origin or authenticity of this video, the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps,"ABC quotes an official statement. "This matter will be fully investigated.""Regardless of the circumstances or who is in the video, this is egregious, disgusting behavior," Department of Defense spokesman Capt. John Kirby told CNN. "It's hideous. It turned my stomach."

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This is disgusting, and there should be appropriate disciplinary action. I can't imagine that there's anyone out there who has anything else to say on the matter.
 
I wonder what Duke Nukem would have to say about this.
 
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Honor: Honor requires each Marine to exemplify the ultimate standard in ethical and moral conduct. Honor is many things; honor requires many things. A U.S. Marine must never lie, never cheat, never steal, but that is not enough. Much more is required. Each Marine must cling to an uncompromising code of personal integrity, accountable for his actions and holding others accountable for theirs. And, above all, honor mandates that a Marine never sully the reputation of his Corps.

Ruh-roh...
 
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Marines urinated on some dead Taliban.Can't say I am outraged. If I was standing over some dead terrorist I would be probably do a lot worse than piss on them. People find the stupidest things to be outraged about.

Whiney lib says "Oh no my ***** hurt because some marines pissed on a dead terrorist, oh the humanity! They were so nice to their prisoners and treated their captives with the utmost respect.Now they will resort to cutting off their captives heads and planting road side bombs"
 
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Maybe they thought the Taliban were thirsty. :lol:

Uhum yes, this is quite disgusting and immature....and against the Marine code. :3oops:
 
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At the LEAST, this is just incredibly classless and arrogant. It's a poor representation of our country and if people want to act like this, they ought to do it on their own time when they aren't officially representing their country. I hope that they will be properly disciplined.
 
War legalizes and rewards the killing of fellow human beings. Why is this a surprise?

Are there animals who kill their fellows in the numbers that human do for the reasons humans do?
 
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Whiney lib says "Oh no my ***** hurt because some marines pissed on a dead terrorist, oh the humanity! They were so nice to their prisoners and treated their captives with the utmost respect.Now they will resort to cutting off their captives heads and planting road side bombs"

I thought the whole point of having a code of honor and being one of the few and the proud was that you're above this sort of thing.

Oh, well. Used to be that Americans were all about being the best, but I guess the new paradigm is that we're settling for not being as bad as "that guy over there."
 
People who already want to put a bullet in the heads of our troops,are you talking about those people?

Who else? It's not like we have to win the hearts and mind from the people who already like us. Plus, I believe he was being facetious.
 
War legalizes and rewards the killing of fellow human beings. Why is this a surprise?
It's not a surprise. It's disgusting and it evokes an amount of disgust worth mentioning.
 
Because even in the midst of slaughter and chaos and the fog of war, there are rules -- or else, we're no better than animals.

So its cool to kill you and I get a medal for that but heaven help me for peeing upon the corpse. Strange rules.
 
So its cool to kill you and I get a medal for that but heaven help me for peeing upon the corpse. Strange rules.
Killing in the defense of one's country is one thing, but pissing on a dead body serves no purpose beyond arrogance.
 
So its cool to kill you and I get a medal for that but heaven help me for peeing upon the corpse. Strange rules.

No, it's not cool. People come back from wars where they felt their cause or their side or whatever was totally justified and totally in the right and they're still seven different kinds of ****ed up. Killing the other guy is the point of war, sort of like killing the armed burgler in your home is the point of defending your property, but it's not cool.

Pissing on a corpse is bad for much the same reason that torturing a prisoner of war is bad -- it's disgusting and against what we stand for as a nation. Or so I thought.
 
Gotta pee somewhere might as well be on the corpse of the enemy. Its a fitting send off to an islamist pos.
 
Perhaps the debate about which is the worse offense to humanity
a- murder of ones fellow man
b- peeing on ones fellow man

should be held halfway down the rabbit hole on the way to Wonderland?
 
my overmountain men ancestors pissed on the corpse of col ferguson - he of the "pissing proclamation" - at kings mountain
family tradition compels all males to do the same to his grave


this is not torture
it should not be found the equivalent
less than civil? absolutely
but war is uncivil

need to tell the marines to quit videotaping their golden showers
 
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