No comments from the leftists?

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Originally posted by Mike AI@Nov 16 2004, 02:56 PM
I thought for sure there would be open rebellion on Oprano claiming how the evil imperial US Marine assassinated a wounded, innocent Iraqi.....

I guess I am being too pesimistic.

Glad we are coming together!

I have yet to see any regular on this board denigrate the current U.S. Military in any form whatsoever and ask that you post some links to threads where any of us so called "leftists" have done so.

I can't speak for all of us commie liberals (but I'm gonna anyway) but I don't think any of us have a problem with the US military and the Men and Women who serve in it or have served in it. In fact, many of the military veterans on the board (myself included) fit into the liberal ilk that you so love to hate.

Many of us have a problem with the guy in charge of the whole mess (George, not Dick), many of us have a problem with the US invading a sovereign nation under false pretenses, many of us have problems with an announcement stating the war is over when it had hardly begun, many of us have problems with a political party that strives to breed ignorance and depends upon that ignorance to prevail. But I don't think any of us have a problem with the military or the men and women that proudly serve.

Mistakes happen, whether the Marine was following SOP (standard operating procedures for you armchair generals) or whether it was a moment of frustration, I think any of us who have been in any situation even remotely close to that can sympathize. He was in a lose-lose situation for the most part as far as I can tell. If he goes and tries to help the wounded guy, he faces the possibility of booby traps and such and then there is the problem of what to do with the prisoner. Drag him along on the rest of the mission ? Leave him there and then find out he was fully mobile and is now eating your flank ? Lot's of problems if the guy is left alive. Simple, most expedient solution is kill the guy.