Who said it was 'OK'??Andyman_1970 said:So it's "ok" to desicrate enemy dead bodies, but when it's "our boys" it's an atrocity? *cough*hypocrite*cough*
Why wouldn't conservatives and liberals like be disappointed about this?N8 said:
It was a question to N8. See the thread title.PsychO!1 said:Who said it was 'OK'??
"The U.S. military said it found the alleged action "repugnant" and said it would investigate."
The thread title didn't say it was 'OK' either....maybe I'm reading between different lines.DRB said:It was a question to N8. See the thread title.
or not, 24 hours later....N8 said:I wasn't there so I can't say. But I can see how this could happen... a little payback in the heat of battle.
Kinda like why the US Army didn't take many German SS soldiers prisoner after the Massacre at Malmédy...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9755213/The cameraman who shot the video said the soldiers claimed they were told to burn the bodies for "hygiene reasons" because they had been out in the open for 24 hours and started to decompose.
Did you read the next paragraph?Slugman said:
But the report says U.S. soldiers then broadcast "an inflammatory message over loudspeakers to taunt and bait the enemy."
A transcript of the story has an apparent sound bite from a Sgt. Jim Baker saying, "Taliban, you are all cowardly dogs. You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned."
Exactly - further proving that this was NOT a heat of the moment event during battle.ohio said:Did you read the next paragraph?
Who claimed that it was? How would that even be possible?Slugman said:Exactly - further proving that this was NOT a heat of the moment event during battle.