In an e-mail to The Weekly Standard, West wrote:
I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
Oh they only saw heads off, remember Blackhawk Down ? Talk to a Vietnam vet about skinning alive. We are a nation of "softies" Bless our guys and gals in the military.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%. I am a high school history teacher and constantly have to fight the brainwashing our children have gotten from their liberal teachers and the liberal media, not to mention political correctness. I have never been in the military, but I know the Taliban is our enemy and they don't respect our countrymen's bodies. Why should we respect theirs.
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I love this guy!!! Wish he was running for President
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