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1. I’m sorry, but in a combat situation where adrenaline is high, rest is low, and you have a bunch of bad guys sniping off the roofs of mosques, this is completely understandable.

   I am so sick and tired of pansy assed journalists and the Manhattan elite (broadly construed) passing judgement on our field troops.

   Truth be said, we have fought the “cleanest” wars of any nation on earth for the past half century or more. (Take a look at the French in Algeria a few decades back, or the French in the Ivory Coast now, if you doubt me.) Our enemies have been hiding behind women and children, beheading civilians, torturing people, etc. With hundreds of thousands of boots on the ground, something like this is bound to happen. It may be regrettable, but it is FULLY UNDERSTANDABLE.

   To prosecute this kid now would be a huge blow for the morale of our troops in the combat arena now.

   And like I said before, too bad they didn’t get the journalist too.

   Comment by John Lemon — Tuesday, November 16, 2004 @ 10:34 am

2. I tend to disagree, Steven.

   If the reports are true of booby trapped bodies and insurgents faking injuries and then shooting at close marines then this takes the protections off the table.

   Protections for the wounded and those in other non combatant status like under surrender flags are covered only as long as that status is not abused. If they’re abused for military advantage then that status cannot protect and anybody in that status is subject to being attacked.

   Comment by Buckland — Tuesday, November 16, 2004 @ 10:59 am

3. “He’s dead now.”
   It has been a familiar sentiment among the left that 9/11 was something that America has wrought upon itself due to the tyrannical nature of its miliatary and economic foreign policy. “We deserved it” were the three unspoken words that rang all too c…

   Trackback by One Fine Jay — Tuesday, November 16, 2004 @ 11:52 am

4. My 1st instinct is to defend the Marine…the body could’ve been rigged, or the guy could’ve been pretending, waiting for a chance to get someone. It’s not like the enemy hasn’t done stuff like that before. They bring it on themselves, really.

   At WORST, this guy may be guilty of bad judgement- he may have been quick to assume (and deal with) a threat when none may have existed, but I severely doubt he’s guilty of malicious intent to murder as some would have us think.

   Comment by Shark — Tuesday, November 16, 2004 @ 2:48 pm

5. The biggest mistake was that he missed the journalist. Better aim next time lad!

   Comment by John Lemon — Tuesday, November 16, 2004 @ 4:56 pm

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