U.S. Troops Posed With Mangled Bodies of Afghan Bombers (GRAPHIC)
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U.S. troops posed for photos with the mangled remains of suspected Afghan bombers, the Los Angeles Times reported.
An American soldier released 18 images to the newspaper, taken in 2010 after members of the 82nd Airborne Division were tasked with inspecting the body parts of insurgents who had blown themselves up:
They inspected the body parts. Then the mission turned macabre: The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held — and others squatted beside — the corpse’s severed legs.
A few months later, the same platoon was dispatched to investigate the remains of three insurgents who Afghan police said had accidentally blown themselves up. After obtaining a few fingerprints, they posed next to the remains, again grinning and mugging for photographs.
Two soldiers posed holding a dead man’s hand with the middle finger raised. A soldier leaned over the bearded corpse while clutching the man’s hand. Someone placed an unofficial platoon patch reading “Zombie Hunter” next to other remains and took a picture.
The Times published two of the 18 photos. The images have sparked outrage and condemnation from U.S. military leaders, who have said an investigation is underway.
“It is a violation of Army standards to pose with corpses for photographs outside of officially sanctioned purposes,” Army spokesman George Wright told the Times. “Such actions fall short of what we expect of our uniformed service members in deployed areas.”
Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, strongly condemned the photos and called the behavior depicted “entirely inconsistent with the values of ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] and all service members of the 50 ISAF countries serving in Afghanistan.”
Before the images were even published online, Pentagon press secretary George Little said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “rejects the conduct depicted in these 2-year-old photographs,” according to the Associated Press.
“Anyone found responsible for this inhuman conduct will be held accountable in accordance with our military justice system,” Little said.
One image published shows a soldier posing in front of the body of an insurgent whose hand appears to be on the soldier’s shoulder, with another member of the military looking down at the corpse. The second shows a group of people, including uniformed American soldiers, posing with what looks like the mangled legs of an insurgent.
According to the Times, the photos were taken during a yearlong deployment of the 3,500-member brigade, which saw 35 of its soldiers killed during that period. At least 23 were killed by homemade bombs or suicide bombers, the Times reported.
The soldier who provided the photos to the Times — who did so on the condition of anonymity — told the newspaper virtually all of the troops pictured had friends wounded or killed by homemade bombs.
“They were frustrated, just pissed off — their buddies had been blown up by IEDs [improvised explosive devices],” the soldier said. “So they sort of just celebrated.”
Times editor Davan Maharaj said of the the decision to publish the images: “After careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangering U.S. troops.”
The photos come at a critical time for the American mission in Afghanistan: In January, video emerged of what appeared to be U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. One month later, the inadvertent burning of Korans at a U.S. base set of days of deadly riots around the country and resulted in the deaths of several U.S. troops, including two shot inside the Afghan Foreign Ministry. Last month, a U.S. Army sergeant allegedly went on a shooting rampage in an Afghan village, killing nine children and eight adults.
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Los Angeles Times: "A soldier from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division with the body of an Afghan insurgent killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb. The photo is one of 18 provided to The Times of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses."
Image source: Los Angeles Times
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Comments (299)
Krutch
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:35amBut it is OK for the enemy to drag our boys’ bodies through streets, hang ‘em up, burn ‘em, and other mutilations?
Report Post »I have never understood why it is OK for our enemies to do whatever they want to our troops, yet we must cater to the whims of our enemies. Actually, to the stupid libs on our side of the battle.
When will we ever get back to winning a conflict instead of killing our boys by whussing around in a war zone for too long?
On Guadelcanal jeeps and tanks had the heads of japanese displayed on them to un-nerve the enemy. What they did to our boys was much worse. The American solder does not have the reputation for torture but almost every enemy we have gone against has done so to their enemies. and their own peoples. However our own libs want to claim atrocties by our guys any time they can. Too many years of letting the libs abuse and sissify our military personel gets into these drawn out conflicts where we lose troops unnessecarily. We need more George Pattons!
VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:20am@Krutch
Are you really trying to live up to their standards? It’s not about who hit who first, it’s about being a civilized society and not tolerating barbarity.
Analogy:
You are an adult, a baby hits you in the face during a temper tantrum. Are you going to wind up and clock it in the face because “well he hit me!” or are you going to act like the ADULT YOU ARE and set an example for others to follow.
Grow up man!
Are you seriously trying to compare America with that country? You need a reality check. I expect more from my troops because we have running water, electricity, and respect Human Rights.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:40pmWe need to need to pull our military out of those country and let them do what they’ve been doing for the last 1500 years. We aren’t making an ounce of progress.pull out ,cut of all foreign aid and let them handle their own sh**.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:47pmPiss on emm…….
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:53pmTHIS IS WAR … or we should get the hell out of there. The bottom line is that in a war the goal is to defeat, to kill, the enemy. To destroy his will to fight, his desire to live for his beliefs that compel him to fight. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER is the goal. Until the enemy reaches a total lost of faith, belief in his life he will only continue to fight. If we leave, those we protect will die and those who hate us will rule. Either way, we are directly or indirectly blamed for the death of those who do not oppose us. Bottom line, we should be killing and creating the respect of fear in the hearts of others. Not demonstrating we are somehow not like those who hate us. TSA creates fear, strips searches us, steals from us and you okay with that? F these Muslims, kill them until they hate being Muslims
Report Post »BossHog36
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:03pm@votebushin12 You are a grade A moron. It makes me sick that you sit at home in your comfy chair and judge acts of war like you are better than the soldiers over their fighting it. War is hell and it’s real so pull your head out of your pompous behind and thank God that some braver men then you are over there dealing with it. I would hate to see how a war would pan out with a bunch of self righteous tender foots like you fighting it. In the meantime, stay strong keyboard warrior!
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:07pm@VoteBushIn12
“Are you really trying to live up to their standards?”
Reminds me of when the Right turned on the faux outrage machine about the so-called “ground zero mosque” (which was neither at ground zero nor a mosque) and I would hear cons say “in Saudi Arabai they won’t let anyone build Christian church”. My two thoughts in response were always, “Yes, that’s the difference between us and them”, and “don’t forget, the Saudis were George Dubya’s buddies”.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:08pmWhen you can’t “Win their Hearts and Minds” this is the
Report Post »end result..What do you think our troops are doing there??
It’s NOT R&R folks, these are pictures of WAR !!!!
TPaine
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:42pm@VoteBushIn12 – Are you a moron, or do you just sound that way? War is hell, and you should be thrown right in the middle of it to see how it is. A baby slapping you? These guys are skilled at killing men, women and children (using children as suicide bombers) without remorse. And when our troops send a bunch of them to meet Allah, it’s payback time. We aren’t in Afghanistan to be nice little children – they already brag that American soldiers are weak and spineless. Guess a few of them don’t fit that description.
Far as I’m concerned, the more of these fanatics we kill, the fewer of them are around to set off IEDs, use bombs and guns and otherwise kill our troops. My faithful wish is that we get all of our guys out of that hellish sandbox and let them kill each other off.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:59pm@VOTEBUSHIN12:
I’ve read your “Analogy:
You are an adult, a baby hits you in the face during a temper tantrum” several times in row and thought the following:
No matter how hard I’d try, I wouldn’t be able to invent a more idiotic analogy than yours comparing our rabid, smart, skillful, ruthless enemies with kids.
Report Post »What a real Liberastic comparison!
I could imagine what would you say if it was our soldier dead on the photo and a Taliban insurgent rejoicing how successfully he planed a roadside bomb…
1proudAmerican
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:39pmThis is what other soldiers have done in years passed – I have a relative with pics of dead enemy soldiers during the Korean War. The only difference now is the internet. People need to be more discreet now that our enemies use this kind of thing as an excuse to do worse to us and libs use them to discredit our military.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:42pmIt’s not ok for either side to do this.
qzak491
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:53pm.
VOTEBUSHIN12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:20am
Are you seriously trying to compare America with that country? You need a reality check.
No you are the one that needs a reality check. Look at what our government is doing to this country, why do you expect any different from it’s people. This administration is trying to turn this country into a third world country, and you act surprised when we act like it, why???
Report Post »rlimike
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:31pm@KRUTCH, right on brother … right on.
Report Post »tgp42rhr
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:35pm@votebushin12: Then you go over and do the job. I am sick and tired of hearing all you pantie-waists cry about this ****. That is exactly how you should be thinking about your enemy. Kill ‘em and remember thay are animals. Otherwise you get killed instead. Its called WAR ir sucks, its dirty and nasty and your holier then thou attidude gets AMERICANS killed.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:43pmThese were animals planting IED’s, apparently not well trained..
Report Post »I would have been a happy camper too.. like to see more of
them end in this fashion, God Bless and Protect our Troops..
Don’t think this Administration has your back though..OORAH !!
Bama want’s a full investigation, AGAIN !!! GOOD GAWD !!
teamarcheson
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:09pmI Like It
Where can I buy a 3/4 poster?
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:11pmI’m with you krutch.
Report Post »@votebusch12
What is wrong with you?Haven’t seen enough combat or brutality to understand what has to be done?It isn’t the point of whether we are better. We are.Krutch isn’t acting like a kid hes telling you like it is.Literally.There are times that brutality has to be met with the same.What does the fact that you have running water and electricity have to do with it?The afgans going to turn it off?If so then our military has become one sorry lot if it can’t even provide for its own units especially energy.What are you angry about that they posed for the pics or that it wasn’t authorized?Cmon inquiring minds want to know.
vehoae
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:12pmFor KRUTCH, who said: “I have never understood why it is OK for our enemies to do whatever they want to our troops, yet we must cater to the whims of our enemies. Actually, to the stupid libs on our side of the battle.”
What I don’t understand, Krutch, is why the only time our dictator-in-chief gets perturbed is when a muslim is killed by an an American. Well, I actually do understand … was being a little facetious there. I think we all fully understand by this time what we‘ve allowed to sit in the President’s chair in the oval office.
It’s the same thing racially back home in the U.S. with regard to black v. non-black (i.e., Sanford, Florida). Had the media and Treyvon Martin’s parents shown photos of what Treyvon actually looked like as of the day he was killed (instead of the picture of him as a young, innocent-looking thirteen-year-old), do you really believe Obama would have declared that if he (Obama) had a son, his son would have looked like Treyvon? Since it takes two to tango, I wonder if Obama‘s spouse concurred in her spouse’s assessment of what her male progeny would look like (she seems always to be overly self-involved in her body and how she looks and how she wants others to look).
Lord, come quickly.
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:34pm@blazingaway
Report Post »I hate to disagree with you, but this a frickin joke not a war. How come it‘s photo’s like this that show up all the time and never the ones of soldiers helping the Afgans. Also look at the photo, Why does the one soldiers hand just disappear into the shoulder of the dead one. Who’s hand is on the others shoulder. To me they look fake as hell. I would not doubt these are manufactured just to get us to take our eyes off the ball and for the Sharpton’s and Jackson types so they can preach to us how evil our military and country is. You can bet this will be all over the leftwing media condemning the military for (if this is even real) for doing their job. Sorry this kind off crap just pi$$es me off.
VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:03pmI may not have seen war, but I have friends and family that has – some of which saw combat and saw their brother’s fall.
Every single one of them denounces these actions. Non of my friends or family took pleasure in humiliating their fallen enemy. It is disrespectful to your fellow man. It is disgraceful. It is uncivilized. And above all else it is inhumane. Being a soldier does not mean giving up your morals!
Soldiers do what they do to gain a strategic advantage in combat – “IN COMBAT”. It is for this same reason that we don’t parade through villages killing civilians.
We do only what is absolutely necessary to obtain the advantage and win the hearts and minds. Taking pictures of yourself in appropriate positions over mutilated bodies of the enemy does nothing to further the mission objectives. It is cruel.
The fact I have to explain this is exactly why you – as well as all soldiers who think this is acceptable behavior – are the problem in the world.
What would I say to insurgents doing the same thing? I would say that is barbaric, inhumane, uncivilized, and down right evil. The only difference is those insurgents don‘t fly my country’s flag and don’t represent my people on the national scale.
Show some class.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:48pm@ votin… “We do only what is absolutely necessary to obtain the advantage and win the hearts and minds. ” That is your winning war strategy?
Glad you weren‘t in Ike’s shoes during WWII or we would be speaking Japanese or German now.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:54pmI see nothing wrong with displaying the remains of the evil enemy you have destroyed. Maybe one day, if we get lucky, we will see the same sort of pics, only with the part of the dead Muslim being played by some of our treasonous politicians.
Report Post »AZ Walt
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:16pmYou are right on Krutch! When you go to fight a war you go to WIN ! No attempt to “win the hearts and minds” nor “nation building”. Your only option and goal is to win!
The Middle East is a 7th century Bedoin/Muslim cess pool. Isreal is the ONLY country in the Middle East that lives in the current times and is worth anything!
I grew up in the 1950s. I remember hearing the stories from WW II of adults – family/Boy Scouts/Explorers, etc. about what happened to particular Nazi and SS officers in Europe and the Japs in the South Pacific after they committed their war attrocities to our troups.
The only thing these kids did wrong was posting the pictures for Liberals et all, to see and complain about.
Report Post »4XGrace
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:17pmIf America doesn’t want their sons and daughters doing just this sort of thing, she should bring her troops home. In the meantime to all you Freaking Bleeding Hearts out there “leave the troops alone!” They have a job to do and it‘s more stressful than you can imagine because it’s a political war with no clear aims or goals. So they are going to be screwed up from the moment they step on the sands of the Middle East. What they need is a release … better posing with body parts than doing opium or anything else that was popular in Vietnam, Cambodia or Korea. People who think that mankind can mature into some Christ-Like perfection are sick even as they deny Christ – go back to watch Star Wreck.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:24pm@KAYDEEBEAU
Winning the hearts and minds is the creed for the Iraq War so that was a little social commentary. Thought you would have picked up on that, but I guess not…
@TXPILOT
You see nothing wrong with that?
That‘s weird because the Geneva Convention’s Rules of Engagement does.
“Article 34.-Remains of deceased
Report Post »1. The remains of persons who have died for reasons related to occupation or in detention resulting from occupation or hostilities and those of persons not nationals of the country in which they have died as a result of hostilities shall be respected, and the gravesites of all such persons shall be respected, maintained and marked as provided for in Article 130 of the Fourth Convention, where their remains or gravesites would not receive more favourable consideration under the Conventions and this Protocol.”
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/protocol1.htm
YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:33pmAfter looking at the second photo why from one camera angle do you have shadows facing three different directions?
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:39pm***** EM!!! Pull our boys out of that worthless schitt hole, and let em go back to living like the animals they are! BUT… CUT OFF ALL AID TOO! This is becoming just like Viet-Nam… We didnt know who we were fighting or what your fighting for. Their corrupt prez Kharzi or however you spell his name is laughing all the way to the bank, and as soon as we do leave, he will side again with the Tinkerbells. Winning hearts and minds? NO… Kicking azz and killing more of them then they can stand and putting fear in them that if they step out of line, we would come back to finish the rest of em off is how the peace is won.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 6:49pmVOTEBUSHIN12, You are simply a whining child. Get over it and recall what General Grant said…”War is Hell.” Somebody like you will never serve anyway, and you will never understand.
Report Post »KRUTCH, good one, and I say that they should follow Black Jack Pershing’s suggestions. We would really see the gutless lefties fly out of the woodwork…LOL.
Lucy Larue
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:00pm@VOTEBUSHIN12,
Tres degoutant you are. I read posts like yours as a military spouse and…, too, too, many words fill my brain to explain to you your complete ignorance. It is diificile to make a cogent post. I will attempt.
They are not “YOUR SOLDIERS”. They are not. What I read shows me that you would never be able to stand equally with the lowest rank in the military. You would not. You are a smug coward!I
I now have the tears because you make me think of Daniel Pearl and many of our soldiers who were BUTCHERED by what you call “BABIES”! Les Infants! NON! You lie.
They are not babies. They are brutal sociopathic KILLERS!
GOOGLE the death of Daniel Pearl. He was concious when his penis and testicles were sawed off with a dirty rusty knife. He was conscious when they were stuffed in his mouth. He was conscious when his BEHEADING ensued! His “BABY” Killers posted his murder on YOU TUBE!
These soldiers being photoed with Suicide Bomber body parts are heroes. I would do the same if I were them.
You could NEVER be a soldier VOTE!
Report Post »No Islamofascist would EVER sever your testicles. You don’t have any!
StonyBurk
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:04pmRead Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell pp312-313 .The part that bothers me is we train these men to kill for God and Country and then we say do not confirm the kills . We want them to be “Macho Men” but we want to discourage any of the stuff that is part of it. IT’s about time we stop telling these men we deploy in harms way they need to fear the American attorneys–and the American Press and the PAgan – anti-American Communist now residing in the Whiteouse. SO they took some pictures to prove how unafraid they are in a place that would scare the crap out of any sane civilian? SO they took the photographs. Now I say go after the newspapers and the one who sent them there to begin with.
Report Post »dogday
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:28pmGod Bless you Krutch!! Well said!
Report Post »Baron_Doom
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:00pmThese brave men see atrocities committed by the enemy each and every day. If they use a little humor to deal with it, more power to them!
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:52pmMove along nothing to here, just a war, get over it, its been more than 10 years, we’re tired of this winless war, I don‘t care what they doto these POS’s, they are doing worse to us.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:16pmVoteBushIn12, good posts. I particularly like this one, “What would I say to insurgents doing the same thing? I would say that is barbaric, inhumane, uncivilized, and down right evil. The only difference is those insurgents don‘t fly my country’s flag and don’t represent my people on the national scale.” I also appreciated your quote from the Geneva Convention.
After WWII America was viewed as the moral leader of the world. We fought when war was forced upon us. During war we abided by Geneva Convention and our own rules of moral conduct during war. And, after the war, the US prosecuted those of other countries who violated the Geneva Convention. We, at that time, had the moral authority to do so. Because America was exceptional and, even during war, abided by the Christian morality, and the Geneva Convention.
But the responses you got here show clearly that many do not believe in American exceptionalism. They don’t understand how smiling and holding up a dead torso, or photos of torture undermines the moral authority our country once had. These people defend torture of captives, they defend the desecration of the dead. And they declare in no uncertain terms that America has no moral authority in the world, that America is not exceptional.
That’s not my view of America, but I guess the good Christians here don’t believe that America has a higher moral standard than those we fight.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:38pm@voted biggest douche
Report Post »Way to replace jzs as the most hated person on this website. It never ceases to amaze me how people can totally eff themselves with their idiot comments.
OlderCowGirl
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:06am@Vote
Report Post »“We do only what is absolutely necessary to obtain the advantage and win the hearts and minds.”
This is nice romantic thinking. How noble. But not a wit of reality in your honorable display. Ponder the fact that we are all “animals”. Everyone of us. Go without food for a week or two, or watch your family or friends tortured…see your animal side. We are all animals underneath our warm and fuzzy exterior, pretending to be civil. Reading the news…every day sees insanity.
I praise and adore all you soldiers…and thank you from the bottom of my heart that you fought, died, were maimed, and survived all the ugly wars. We send our men and women to uncivilized wars. Sometimes we thank them, sometimes we shame them. Regarding these pictures: the dead men are dead…matters not what happens to them. These soldiers did NOT maim or kill them. I say leave these soldiers alone! They are youngsters fighting a terrible war, doing what boys and some girls) do. Caught up in the moment…I might have done the same thing. I admit these things now that I’m a 65 years old woman. Life…many times…sucks. Let’s get off our high horse and praise these soldiers for their contributions. What matters is that they chose to serve. Some pose with dead people. Some don’t. Carry your own cross and not judge others how they carry theirs. Dead people are dead…feel nothing. Don’t bury these living soldiers over this 2 yr old event.
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:12amJZSaul,
I did not know you were old enough to have served in WWII so that you have first hand knowledge of exactly how all that fighting went down.
I got news for you moron…………you don’t know squat.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:38am“We do only what is absolutely necessary to obtain the advantage…”
Report Post »And that is why we’re losing. We are fighting to “not lose” while they are fighting to WIN!
They are fighting a W A R and we’re trying to be the lovable policemen who give out candy and toys for tots.
We will continue losing until SOMEONE in our military reads “The Art of War” or a similar text. They(Military leadership, esp the Commander in Chief) are successfully doing everything they can to throw away the lives of our finest countrymen by acting like libs who think the enemy is anything BUT a bunch of savages who need to be put down as brutally, quickly, and in as many numbers as possible.
War is not “nice” or “humane” or any other stupid term you people come up with to describe how we should be fighting it. It is HELL on earth and the best way to deal with that is to make it as hellish as possible for the enemy, thereby ending it quickly and bringing our boys home safely.
I do not care how many of the enemy we kill, I do not care how they are killed, I only care that the good people of this world, OUR brave soldiers return home safely.
Do whatever you have to, to come home boys, WE THE PEOPLE support you…
centenium
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:33amI’m with Votebushin12.
We expect more from our troops because we are netter than those barbarians. I know war is stressful and those guys need an outlet…some just choose the wrong way. They are young and prone to fits of irrational judgement.
I also feel we have been there too long. I say we clean house and wipe the floor with them and make their country the 51st state of US-ISTAN. allow our companies to drill for oil there and sell it here and around the world until our costs are covered….then they can have it back in say 100 years when they get more civilized.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:10amjzs
“VoteBushIn12, good posts. I particularly like this one,
Yes, and isn’t that strange you would have anything in common with votebush? Hahaha.
“What would I say to insurgents doing the same thing? I would say that is barbaric, inhumane, uncivilized, and down right evil.”
But you never say those things about anyone other than people you perceive to be outside your realm of oddball acceptance. There’s not one word of criticization from you on anything other than the people you hate, and those people NEVER include anyone but white Christians.
“The only difference is those insurgents don‘t fly my country’s flag and don’t represent my people on the national scale.”
Of course they don’t fly your flag. Your flag is a white piece of raggedy cloth with the picture of a twinkie in the middle.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:20amBossHog36
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:03pm
“@votebushin12 You are a grade A moron. It makes me sick that you sit at home in your comfy chair and judge acts of war like you are better than the soldiers over there fighting it.”
You’ve got it right on, Bosshog. Nobody is in agreement with that sort of thing, but those who have the wisdom to understand know full well war makes soldiers do those kinds of things.
Our boy, votebush is only one of the rabid haters of Christians on here. Votebush, JZS, Jaycen, et al, are part of the cabal of oddballs, flakes and misfits who think their efforts at making delusional comments somehowi nfluences the forum favorably toward their perverted agenda
If they didn’t have the conservative Christians here to spew their despicable hate, what would they do for recreation?
I’ve noted that they post at all hours of the night on weekends also, obviously because pursuing their agenda of hate is all they really have to do.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:31amTPaine
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:42pm
“@VoteBushIn12 – Are you a moron, or do you just sound that way?”
He’s both, Paine. He’s a moron and he sounds that way.
He also makes comments occassionally delusionally thinking he’s creating an image of compassion and humanitarianism, because he feels as if doing so will give his dopey criticisms more impact. He wants to fool people about who he really is, which he inanely believes gives him a cover of sorts to pretend he’s really such a good sort, instead of a ribald anti-Christian, anti-conservative hater.
He and his cohorts come straight from Hell.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:41amVoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:03pm
“I may not have seen war, but I have friends and family that has – some of which saw combat and saw their brother’s fall.”
Just that statement alone tells me you’re lying, because of the way it is phrased, and it also reveals an effeminate ring to it. You’re easy to read, because you’re an insincere phony.
Nobody is defending these kinds of actions. What they‘re saying and you can’t understand is that such incidents have to be expected in times of war. War makes beasts of men, and your claims of moral superiority you offer of your “friends and family” probably exist only in your perverted made-up thinking that has has no basis in fact.
If the dead trioops so inhumanely displayed in those photos had been Conservative Christians and the others Muslims, you would be making excuses for the Muslims, because you despise conservative Christians so much.
If you weren’t so deluded, you could see that your insults and biased ramblings only serve to set people here more firmly in their views, rather than influencing them as you so naively perceive.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:18pmMy father was briefly captured by the Japanese on Guadalcanal. They started with skinning him alive. All the skin on the front of his right leg was skinned off. Before they could do more, a Marine patrol rescued him.
Report Post »waring850
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:09pm@VOTEBUSHIN12
Report Post »Obviously you dont know what the the japanese did to us in world war two.
They would hang our men up, then cut the mans balls off and force feed it to him, so he would choke to death on them. Well we retalliated by chopping off their heads and using them as ashtrays and bashing out their golden teeth. But heres the thing. They did it with the man wide awake and alert. We did it with the man dead. They would play dead, then pop up with grenades behind their back and pull the pin. Obviously you dont know what they did to us in Vietnam. The POW camps? yeah, they did worse. So look a little at history before you start saying stuff. I understand acting like an adult but frankly, the excuse of being a four year old throwing a temper tantrum if a complete nusance. Its a four year old for chistsake. You really expect it to go. “Oh that man hit me because i was being bad” and do nothing about it?
VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:11pm@WARING850
Yeah and 300 years ago we burned people alive as capital punishment, what’s your point?
Things change. The world matures. As a nation, we are supposed to be a beacon of honesty and morality to the world. Having our troops mistreating the dead is disrespectful and disgusting. This type of activity must not be condoned ever. Get those hooligans out of our military – they are not fit to serve nor worthy to wear the American Flag on their shoulder.
@ROBERT
“Just that statement alone tells me you’re lying, because of the way it is phrased, and it also reveals an effeminate ring to it. You’re easy to read, because you’re an insincere phony.”
I have two friends currently serving in Iraq. Close friends. One was a college teammate of mine, he was a national qualifier and an team captain everyone respected (he’s in the Marines) and the other was a year younger than me in Boy Scouts, we worked on each other’s Eagle Projects and shared tents together on weekend outings (he’s in the Army). One of my friends in College had her cousin KIA just three years ago. Her, and her family, were understandably devastated and it rubbed off on everyone.
I understand the sacrifice these Men and Women make. But I know for a fact none of the soldiers I know would ever act in the manner this article describes. They’d agree with me when I say this is disgraceful behavior.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:33amI am sick and tired of hearing people who have never worn the uniform, never taken the oath to give their lives, piously and sanctimoniously tell us how we should now lower ourselves. Go sign up, grab a freaking gun, watch your friends die needlessly and then come and condemn taking pictures with the same animals that are trying to kill you. How dare you judge them! We ask these guys to be killers and then act like diplomats. We are more merciful and ethical than our enemies. If taking pictures with the remains of the enemy is the worse thing we do, than name one of our enemies, past or present that is above that. Go put on a uniform or shut up.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:49amAmen!!!! And thank YOU for your service. My Daddy was a squid, God rest his soul. He would have said the same thing you just did.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:24amI’m sick and tired of hearing veterans who VOLUNTEERED to take up those duties expect preferential treatment and exemption from common acts of human decency.
I appreciate the sacrifice you gave – and it is a sacrifice – but don’t act like that somehow entitles you to violate human rights. It doesn‘t and I won’t stand for it. As a tax payer that pays your bill, I expect better out of me “employees”
Can’t take the pressures of life as a solider? Find a civilian job. We aren’t going to lower the standards. There are plenty of viable candidates that would be honored to fill the shoes of an American Solider and would treat such a position with the respect it deserves.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:37am@SquidVetOhio Oh ok tiger. Of course you forgot one key point. There is no honor in fighting a unjustified war. Vietnam was a good example. Iraq and Afghanistan is another. Use your brain and understand that the Middle East was conveniently provided as a replacement for Communist Russia which was poised to destroy the US at anytime. Yea right. We could easily bring such countries to their knees in a month with our weaponry. But there is no money to be made with such short wars. Get beyond the parlor games the military industrial complex wants you to focus on. The Arab plot to kill all Americans. It was BS when it was communist Russia and it is BS now. Time to invest $$ in the US and if someone attacks us, wipe them out with the absurd amount of weapons we already have.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:43amOk Squid, I’ll humor you.
I am a veteran. I did voluntarily take on the uniform. I did do two tours in Iraq. And I am here to say that what these soldiers did was absolutely DISGUSTING and DISHONORABLE. They tarnish the reputation of the U.S. military and the United States as a whole with stunts like these. They should absolutely be given OTH discharges and sent back home to mama because they no business representing our country.
Satisfied?
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:07pm@Votebushin12 Your silly rantings about your judgements of right and wrong are just sickening. They are the positions of an uninitiated idealist child. Your deep need to portray yourself as a moral superior is a standard liberal feel good tactic. I’m sure you look at the rest of the world and just shake your head about how stupid they are and in need of your sparkling intellect. Only a well fed, educated person like you who is completely isolated from any ill the world has to offer could really understand things the way they really are. Ever loose a leg? An Arm? Ever loose a best friend to a mad bomber? I really think your lacking in the legitimate opinion department if your education of the real world does not include any real adversity beyond recovery from the drunk you put on last evening at the party. So i guess the best way to put it is that how dare you judge a person and their actions when the only real life experience you have to back up your opinion is that you are a sanctimonious jackass who simply thinks they know better than anybody else. Sit on your pedestal and make judgements from your moral plateau that only you in your self appointed authority have the morality to stand on. How long must be bask in your moral superiority before we grasp how fully right you are? You have assigned yourself the truly lofty position of moral arbiter and we shriek with joy at your purity. Yeah Right. Jesus said cast the first stone and you already had one in the air. TROLL!
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:09pm@DOCTORNORDO
Yes, I am satisfied. If you wore the uniform and was there, then I respect your opinion. Of course, you know there plenty of other veterans who disagree with you. Also, I‘m sure I’m older than you if you did 2 tours in Iraq so I’ll say the military is gradually becoming more PC and drastically so in the last 10 years. Pictures with the dead enemy has gone on since the civil war so, realize you are judging those veterans too.
To everyone else, I think we should pull our troops out tomorrow. I agree this war is needless and stupid. That’s not for a soldier to decide. We follow lawful orders. They were lawfully order to go fight and that is what they are doing. I would also blame the military leadership for allowing these pictures to happen.
But, I will not sit in the safety of my own home and judge these men who live under the very real possibility of dying horrifically so I can feel good about myself about how I THINK I would act in their position. I would not want these men dishonorably discharged to where they can’t vote or own land again over this. Should they have done it? No. Am I staying up at night over it? Nope. Reprimand them and get on with your business.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:14pm@VOTEBUSHIN12
You arrogant elitist puke. We are not your employee. You are our liability. You sit there and equate our soldiers (who took pictures of people they didn’t even kill in this instance) with the Islamic barbarians. Thank God we are not depending on people like you to defend this nation. Yes, I volunteered to serve. Is there more honor in getting drafted?
It’s despicable that our soldiers be judged by lesser men than themselves.
If you are our employer than with all due respect, screw you sir.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:15pmVoteBushIn12
How many combat tours do you have?
Report Post »CPT_GCF
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:47pm@VoteBushin12, they pose for pictures of animals who blew themselves up trying to kill unarmed men, women, and children; and then you talk about “inhumane” treatment? I think you‘re missing the fact that they’re not human. Get YOUR priorities straight. It’s funny for someone to preach about dignity and proper treatment in war. It obviously shows that you’ve never been in combat. There’s nothing dignifying about what our guys have to go through, but guess what? Our brave guys do it for us! OEF ‘08-’09.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:48pmHey !!! We teach these kids to KILL…HMMMM ???
Report Post »I say, PIS** ON THEM ALL !! We don’t need to be there
anymore..GET OUR TROOPS OUT NOW !!! These POS
have been killing each other for thousands of years..We
aren‘t going to change a F’N thing.. look at Iraq they are
still bombing each other..Get Out and Get Over It..GAWD !!
Simper Fi. OORAH !!
VanceUppercut
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:08pm@SquidVetOhio
And the policeman said, “My job is tough, and I risk my life every day, so I should be allowed to beat an unarmed, handcuffed prisoner.”
Report Post »DarkCain
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:13pmWhile I, a veteran, do not condone their actions, I understand and sympathize with those soldiers.
Having been ambushed, shot at, sniped at, suicide bombed, suckin’ on IEDs, RPG’d, medivacing friends, carrying another into a mash unit, watching friends lose friends to the above mentioned, there is nothing more that I’d like to see than these little snots shot and buried in pig sacks.
How horrible that I say this you say? How my inner desires and comments are misaligned with the Army values of respect and honor… How can I respect an enemy that desecrates our dead soldiers and citizens at every opportunity? How can I honor and respect an enemy that tortures and kills our captured soldiers? How can I honor an enemy that uses women and children as human shields, uses pregnant women as bait in car bombs, to have children throw hand grenades at us, and views and uses suicide vests/bombs as an acceptable means of fighting? Why should I allow the enemy to take advantage of my values when the enemy does not observe the rules of warfare?
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:08pmRight on Squidvetohio!!! And yet another stupid investigation. I’m tired of it.
Report Post »bartonfink
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:25pm@SquidVetOhio
While I agree with your sentiments about war and its atrocities, I want you to know that we need animals like you to win this war but we don’t need you as part of the civilized society we live in. You signed up to do this ****, you don‘t get to bleat about something you think you’re ‘entitled’ to just because you serve in the army. You‘re being compensated for your ’job’ be it in money or government benefits or your own sense of satisfaction from serving in the army. Accept the derision you get from people back home as part of your ‘job’.
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:42pm@JROOK
Report Post »Sorry but I disagree. There is no honor in fighting a “war” that you have no intention of winning.
VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:11pm@DOCTOR NORDO
Thank you. I know my words may sound rough around the edges, but I want you to know that I do appreciate the troops and am thankful for their service. It is refreshing to be reminded every now and again that these hooligans are the exception and that the majority of our veterans understand why American Soldiers don’t engage in these actions.
And to everyone else. I don’t need combat experience to know what is and what is not acceptable behavior. I not only have strong morals, I am literate and have read the Rules of Engagement
http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul_rule113
AND I QUOTE:
The US Instructor’s Guide (1985) states: “In addition to the grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the following acts are further examples of war crimes: … mutilating or mistreating dead bodies”.
Don’t tell me how a solider is to act, I have your rule book my friend. Play by the rules or take a hike.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:36pmVOTEBUSHIN12, LOL after that last post I get a picture of some little kid shaking a DOD Pam in his hand as though at the rest of us….see….see….I now know it all! By your interpretation I suppose that the Navy SEALs who shot then photographed and videoed Osama should face a hanging in one of those elevator shafts at Ft Leavenworth. I have personally never done anything like what is pictured here, and would never unless it had something to do with my assigned duties at the time. But yeah, I have had to photograph quite a number of bodies. I grant you that none of them looked nice either. Maybe you would want me charged as well.
Report Post »As for Rules Of Engagement, they are written for particular ops and may be recycled with op name changes if they apply. Others are written for long term engagements but often do change. They are in no way carved into stone forever. You sir, have no idea of what you speak. I‘ve read all three versions of the Geneva Convention as of the early ’90s. Okay, the second was convened in Den Hague, or The Hague to you. Made for the most dry reading I have ever done. I still don’t see some of these photographs as desecration of a body. Only until recently many of the states’ laws did not have severe penalties for doing any such thing. The rules by the GC allows for a nation’s military to deal with this as they see fit. Naturally, with the left in charge now, the likes of you will apparently want blood.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:45pmVOTEBUSHIN12, Continued: I would venture to say that even you, that is if you are actually old enough to drive, do not follow all of the laws, rules, and local ordinances. Do you know why? Because there are so many you can’t possibly know them all. The same thing goes for our Tax Code, the ever changing, and growing EPA rules, not to mention the rules and regs of all of the other alphabet soup agencies.
Report Post »While you are at it, grab yourself a current copy of the UCMJ and read it too. Shake that thing at the screen next. Would love to see that.
Doctor Nordo
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:05am@SQUID
I am the most politically INcorrect person I know. PC has nothing to do with this. It’s simply a basic respect for human life, and posing with mangled corpses is not respectful. Granted, the enemy doesn’t respect us, but that’s all the more reason for us not to lower ourselves to their level.
I don’t give a flip if this has been going on since the Civil War. It’s disgusting and barbaric.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:54amVoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:24am
“I’m sick and tired of hearing veterans who VOLUNTEERED to take up those duties expect preferential treatment and exemption from common acts of human decency.”
Well, probably the only remedy for your angst is to get a hobby instead of pursuing your despicable hate on here. But, since you love to hate, and would have no purpose in life if you didn’t do so, I really think you must surely be a miserable sort who is beside himself with hysterical worry about how to “get back” at the detestable conservatives who you believe are preventing a world you would like to see come into being.
If you didn’t hate physical exertion so much, you could get a hobby working outside to help alleviate your frustrations.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:45pm@EVERYONE – Post remover ALERT! Watch NORDO! If you get the better of him…
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 12:02am@DOCTORNORDO & EVERYONE – My apologies to you, my good Doctor. Wrong page, wrong story. I was just plain WRONG.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:44pm@RJJINGADSDEN
Taking pictures for the purpose of evidence or otherwise official business (as is the case with Bin Laden) is completely different than posing with the deceased so as to bring shame upon the dead. Posing with the dead body, smiling, and pretending it’s a trophy kill is disgusting and absolutely NOT acceptable behavior. You said it yourself, “The rules by the GC allows for a nation’s military to deal with this as they see fit.” Our military handles it via discharge; I say these soldiers are deserving of one.
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:45pm
“I would venture to say that even you…do not follow all of the laws, rules, and local ordinances.”
You‘re right I don’t. But I pay the price when I get caught now don’t I. And while I may not know EVERY law EVER – I know the important and obvious ones. Every solider should (and likely does) know what the Rules of Engagement are – especially the parts relating to treatment of the dead. In fact, I don’t think you have to read the ROE to understand such actions are deplorable.
@ROBERT
Aside form being completely off topic and worthless with respect to the conversation at hand, your comment is also invalid. If I “love to hate” then I must also love. Checkmate
“If you didn’t hate physical exertion so much, you could get a hobby working outside to help alleviate your frustrations.”
Report Post »I’m an National Qualifying College athlete in two sports, thanks. I don’t think my physical shape should be in qu
ianmc002
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:18amSo this is how “Liberation” works? What will the civilians abroad think? These are just kids, but who will they be when they come back?
BTW this was our government feeding you the story…just like Pat Tillman…better be careful about what you ‘believe’.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:33amIAN. Do you have your Ron Paul (Code-Pink) bloomers on today?
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:37amWho cares what civilians abroad think. That’s our problem. When these guys are pulling their buddies dead body out of a blown up Bradley, they aren’t thinking about how the Pakistanis, or the French feel about it. Put on the uniform yourself and try doing it more ethically since your so much better than these guys. They’re not supposed to winning hearts and minds. They’re suppose to kill people and blow things up. I recommend you thank them instead of judging them for doing what no one else wants to do.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:52amThe last people whose opinion I care about are the people abroad. iIf the combat soldiers had been allowed to fight to win this war it would have been over before those pictures coul have been taken.
Blame the politicians, not the soldiers.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:28am@SQUIDVETOHIO
Yeah kill things and blow stuff up – not pose for pictures with the remains of the enemy casualties of war.
Get your priorities straight. Stop condoning acts of inexplicable barbarity. This is a civilized world, start acting like you live in it. War is an unfortunate consequence, but it can still be (AND SHOULD BE) handled with dignity.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:17pm@VOTEBUSHIN
You act civilized. I’ll survive.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:28pmYour right man. this is not how it works. That war should have started with the absolute hand of god descending down on them like a storm that can’t be escaped. We should have fought a war and not gone there to police the place. We should have sent a wall of fire and death across the desert that would have left 10 generations in fear. We should have made the land sterile (More so than it is). We have the power to break mountains in half and we should. Only then will these people learn that war has a real price. Man must come to fear war but liberals want war to be kind and less painful. you can’t make war pretty. The day you make men unafraid to war is the first day of an unending war. The way of the peacenic is the real path of doom. Peace is found only through strength.. You will not stop a religious zelot with kind words and a teddy bear wielding counselor. you must break an enemy’s will to fight you and then those that remain can live in peace. Endless hand wringing over the horrors of war will only serve to make war a common even because enemies are never defeated by being humane to them. let them see their ten thousand year old cities turned to dust in an instant, let them know that their only defense is submission. let them know that we can kill them from a thousand miles away so they never even get to raise their hand to an enemy in conflict before they can die. Then we can have real lasting peace.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:43pmActually, while everyone throws a tissy fit about this, it isn’t uncommon. Investigators and others usually keep some special photos that don’t make it into evidence and tell some very off color jokes about crime scenes, especially when it involves some tard blowing himself to pieces.
Stress in this line of work is a real issue, our main concern should be that the men who were involved got the attention of their shrink to make sure that stress wasn’t getting to them. Other than that, I don’t get the outrage. The haji’s blew themselves to bits and these guys found it funny. Personally, I would have slathered the remains in bacon grease and fed them to the dogs, but that’s because I find the Geneva Conventions on these issues to be a total crock of crud.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:10pmVOTEBUSHIN12 = out-of-touch elitist who judges others
SQUIDVETOHIO = realist with common sense who understands the world of war
If I had to choose one to stand behind in battle, it would be Squid hands down!
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:25pmBUSHIN12, JROOK, UPPERCUTTER, nice try on the peacful little showing restraint analogies, if we only fought in a perfect war zone. When you’re on the receiving end of flying lead, your humanity saving ideals change. Unless you’ve been & done shut your pieholes! Go tell that (they’re your employee) crap to some battle hardened troops & see if you may or may not get popped in the mouth. Try it and let us know what happend. I doubt you will.
Remember ,these jihadists did this to themselves, our guys didn’t blow them up & then pose with their trophy. Its called survival & its no big deal get over it…
DARKCAIN….well said
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:53pmThe US is obligated under the Geneva Convention on Land Warfare to treat the remains of enemy combatants with respect. Posing with the dead is not showing respect.
Having said that my wife was really po’d when she saw a picture of me eating next to a dead NVA. There was no place to go and I was hungry.
These soldiers did not engaged in an antrocity. They are guilty of being young men in combat and doing something stupid.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:21pm@v-forge Absolutely correct!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:16amAmerica does not need foreign enemies . Our present Lefty media and their political best buds are doing a fine job destroying us from within -two year old photos ? Why now ?
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:10pm@barber2
By “lefty media” are you referring to the soldier who gave these pictures to the paper wanted “to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline”?
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:15amWar is death….Its HELL…this is what it looks like. bring our troops home….
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:35amIt is ok to celebrate the deaths of rag headed idiots who strap bombs to themselves and try to kill as many other people as they can. The LIB press calls them “Suicide Bombers” while they really are “Homocide Bombers”.
Waht’s the difference? A Suicide Bomber will go to a remote place and blow himself up, whereas a Homocide Bomber will go to a crowded mall, Mosque or public event and try to kill as many as possible.
This is a fact that the Liberal Media can’t seem to understand.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:58pm@Dde13
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:15am
War is death….Its HELL…this is what it looks like. bring our troops home….
Agree with YOU 100%….were done there, Get Out Now !!! OORAH !!
Report Post »TWO BITS
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:15amI have no respect or sympathy for the deceased, but the lack of discipline among our troops is detrimental to their mission as well as exposing others to danger. We must not become as barbaric as the enemy.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:57amTaking pictures with corpses is not nearly as barbaric and dragging their bodies through the street, disembowling them, beheading them. Interesting definition of barbarism you have. Have you ever served? Have you ever been shot at? Was David barbaric for bringing Goliath’s head back to show Israel that God helped David defeat him?
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:34pmThese were animals planting IED’s, aparently not well trained..
Report Post »I would have been a happy camper too.. like to see more of
them end in this fashion, God Bless and Protect our Troops..
Don’t think this Administration has your back though..OORAH !!
GMP
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:14amWell, these guys are my heros!
Report Post »79USMC83
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:28amThe DEAD Jihadist were making bombs that kill my Brothers and sisters on a daily basis. The Far-Left Media, the “Speech Giver” or to some YOUR President and the communist in the “Government Stupid” SPIN this CRAP to make OUR Troops look bad. Spinning this, saying it will inflame the Jihadist and Muslims!! !who were making the bombs to begin with, that were trying to KILL these very troops that took pictures of Jihadist that were trying to KILL them. Hell I would be HAPPY too if I were them and sleeping a little better that night !!.
Report Post »BRING them HOME and bring in the B-52′s. Fight the damn WAR and TAKE NO PRISONERS !!!
flavsngrace
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:48amI agree and would have done the same dam thing and it’s not because I would be “acting out of ignorance.” Absolutely not. Our troops hands are tied out there… I’m sick of that dump, I’m sick of them being there and not being able to truly finish the job. We will never again win another battle if we keep fighting like this and demoralizing those who fight for us. I’m sick of it. Our past Generals and real leaders of battle are rolling in their graves.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:50amA few pictures with bacon hanging out of their mouths would have been nice.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:13amGood old dehumanization.
Report Post »ianmc002
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:18amThank you!!!
Report Post »minorityconservative2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:35amSeriously???? They dehumanized themselves by blowing themselves up. Humans don’t murder! Oh I am sorry your white liberal guilt means anyone can do anything to you and anyone else and we are just supposed to have pity for these poor things who had to blow innocents up because they are so put upon. Whatever!!! It isn’t pretty for sure and gross but get real.
Report Post »Tyler520
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:37amcan’t dehumanize what is already a subhuman
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:58pm@MINORITY
Report Post »You have it backwards. The suicide bombers had to dehumanize the people they were going to kill. Just like soldiers dehumanize the people they kill by calling them “targets” etc.
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:46pmYou see blown up human bits and such your sense of humor gets really dark. It’s what people do to keep themselves from going insane, I can live with a few trophy pics over a few shell shocked vets tearing their way through the nearest village.
Report Post »minorityconservative2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:25pmThat made no sense to what I said.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:12amI do the samething when I go hunting……and I have more respect for the animal. (the non-human one).
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:11amThanks, Los Angeles Times, for releasing two year old pictures to discredit our troops. This on top of last weeks Secret Service /military alleged prostitution incident in Colombia. Hmmmm. This on top of the race baiting Martin / gun / Stand Your Ground Law Florida Media frenzy . And the Communist Van Jones Color of Change ( gun and voter ID issues in their gun sights ) recent ALEC move. Gee . Do you see any intimidation tactics here ? The Occupies in Democrat cities ? The MIC checks at the Republican candidate rallies ? The union mobs in Wisconsin ? Hmmm. And how dumb do you think this administration thinks the average American voter is ?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:03am@BARBER2
Report Post »“And how dumb do you think this administration thinks the average American voter is ?”
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Sadly, according to the polls, pretty, damn, dumb, but in their defense, maybe I should say uneducated. They don’t know to quit watching the pablum that NBC, ABC, CBS spews daily.
I am trying to educate as many people as I can, and I urge everyone else to do the same.
grimmy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:11amPose for the pics,do not post them,idiots.I dont care if the poked the bodies in the eyes with sharp sticks, dont take pics of it, then show everyone……
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:27amThat is the real crux of the problem isn’t it? These are the first wars of the digital age, but this stuff has been going on since cavemen fought clan wars.
Report Post »Tyler520
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:38amthe pics were leaked by a soldier – presumably as a setup from the beginning
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:10amDude! That‘s the corpse’s LEFT hand. Do you know what those people DO with their LEFT hand?
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:31amThey use their left hands to suppress the noise of farm animals during late night conjugal visits.
Report Post »minorityconservative2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:38amOh my goodness!!! I am so glad I was not eating or drinking anything when I read that because it would have gotten snorted. I have tears in my eyes. We need some emoticons on here. I will be telling my husband this one.
Report Post »MN NICE
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 12:57pmPracticing safe sex in the middle east: painting a red “X” on the backs of the sheep that kick!!
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 4:13pmLesbian Packing, does it have to do with t.p.? Or the lack thereof? Lol.
Report Post »Robert Treat Paine
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:09amTo quote Shakespeare…. Much Ado About Nothing. I’d be laughing, too, if I saw my enemies blow themselves up. Saves me a lot of work.
Report Post »freedomrings77
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:07amI’ve never understood what the big deal is about these pictures. All one has to do is read any history book and you will find endless pictures of our GIs posing with dead Japenese, German, Korean, and Viet Cong. It’s war. These are young men who have to deal with death everyday. The reporters are just clueless robots and haven’t any idea what war is like.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:03amwho cares are they not the enemy ? they would kill us and chop are heads off and post the pictures !!!!!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:17amDitto. This kind of stuff is as old as war itself.
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:02amYou teach a man to be a killer and then you tell him to be civil in war. You don’t turn it off. It’s not a 9 to 5 job. We’ve done this type of thing for centuries in every war. Now we have to play nice nice. No wonder they’re not afraid of us. Guys be careful, rermember those pic’s we took in Nam? Burn em’.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:57amAirborne! Did just that… long ago.
Report Post »Steel Monkey
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:02amSounds like they killed themselves. Why not poise with the corpse. If they were idot enough to blow themselves up. they deserve to have their photo plasteered over the internet. Who give a crap anyway…more liberal bs!!! Should have tied a pice of pork around the body and let the dogs play with the corpsell!
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:14pm@Steel Monkey
And if it was insurgents posing with the bodies of dead Americans, would your attitude be, “Oh well, it’s war”? Like Dylan said, “You don‘t count the dead when God’s on your side”.
Report Post »Steel Monkey
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 3:23pm@Vanceuppercut
First off, I doubt very seriously if our troops blow themselves up! We also try to do our best not to take civilian casualties which of course, we you blow yourself up, who cares who goes with you. I proudly served and if you are to stupid to respect your own life and blow it up, who cares who takes a picture of your sorry ass? As i said, piss on them all and tie a prok chop around their neck and let the dogs take care of the body. And you sir can kiss my *********!
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:02amI doubt that I would have posed with corpses, but it’s not a crime of one does.
Report Post »fiveft15
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:57amSo what!!
Report Post »BigDaddyTex
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:55amBring ‘em all home NOW!!! Seems like all they’re doing over there now is giving the left leaning press something to do.
Report Post »Bring ‘em home NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
lukerw
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:06amWas not “Stop the War” & “Bring our Troops Home”… the slogans of the 60′s Liberals?
Report Post »BigDaddyTex
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:44amThat‘s what I’ve read. It was before my time. I was in the military twenty years after all that.
Report Post »minorityconservative2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:45amI suppose you are right. But I have to say that we should bring them home. But we should have done that long ago. But my reasons are not their reasons. We are there unwanted and unsupported by their government that works against us. They give the heads up to the enemy. That government is corrupt and in it with our enemy. I don’t think we should lose anymore lives for people that are playing double agent. Let them get their behinds handed to them and bring our people home to defend us here.
Report Post »BigDaddyTex
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:43pmI could not have said it better myself, MINORITYCONSERVATIVE2! That is EXACTLY why they all need to come home. It’s all about the troops now. Has nothing to do with Obama, Bush, or anyone else at this point. The “mission” has become WAY too convoluted and none of those folks want us there now and indeed have NOT earned the blood being spilled on there behalf….
Report Post »Bring ‘em home!!!
momrules
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:53amOh Hell………here we go again.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:50amI salute you guys… but watch your back… as there are Traitors everywhere, these days!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:49amGuess they shouldn’t have blown themselves up then, should they?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:48amWhat do they expect? They are taught to KILL and this is the “spoils” of the victory. They watch the OTHER side do this all the time. They probably figure they’ll come home wounded or in a box, so what the HE**! WAR SUX and it’s not a NORMAL setting for young men, many just teens! Bring them home now, ENOUGH!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:46amidiots. really why don’t they have brains enough to know you will be caught and ruin your career taking pictures? haven’t there been enough stories about this stuff yet to maybe have them think twice. I don’t care what you do but quit putting everything on the internet and taking pictures of it. It’s stupid
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:03amI have to agree with you. I “had” a few souvenir pictures myself, but never thought about sharing them in “mixed company.” In this day and age with the internet and the PC patrols… you are just setting yourself up for failure and and early exit from the Military from those that would throw you under the bus in a heartbeat. Best to leave those images as a fleeting memory.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:13amAccording to NPR , these are two year old photos. Why release now ? Let me guess….
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:51amTime- I bet when horse saw the photos of beheaded Americans hanging off a bridge, he found a way to “blame America”.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:05amPATRIOT. That would be Ron Paul and Obama blaming America first, right along with Jane Fonda, John Kerry and Jack Murtha etc…
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 1:12pm@USPATRIOT101
I could go into a long spiel about why your comment is nonsensical and stupid, but I don’t have the time, so I’ll just say, you are an idiot, sir (or madam).
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