Marine kills unarmed man

This will generate the Liberal War bashing party with a tie to Bush. War is dangerous and people die. Now we are continuing to put soldiers on trail. We should pull out the Media.

i love how there are military papparazzi now that pop up to video tape the US military behaving badly...

you put someone in fallujah with an M16 and don't expect them to shoot people? i don't know about you but if someone shoots at me and then drops their weapon like "oh please don't shoot" they're still getting 2 in the chest 1 in the head on principle... an enemy isn't a non-combatant unless he's dead...

Say it like this too.....if a insurgent had a US Soldier held captive and there was  reporter there, would the insurgent kill the US soldier in front of the report....HELL YEAH he would, whos the reporter gonna report to....his superiors, yeah right!

 

This is another ugly face of war. Was the Joe who punched that insurgents ticket justified? Yep. Having been shot in the face the day before, the knowlege that dead and wounded have been booby trapped, and add the adrenaline, sleep deprivation and shell shock on top of that, and things like this will happen. The environment itself causes people to do things like this that are a terrible reality of warfare. Actions that will be regretted later.

This will unfortuneatly cost us. Public relations will be set back. More hostages could be executed in retaliation. The media is realy gonna screw this up even worse. They will not paint a fair picture of what happened. Already there is talk of possible criminal charges. This poor G.I. is gonna fry for doing his job of snuffing someone who would have killed him, other soldiers or inocent civillians.

Sad thing is, they should not have returned the soldier to combat after being shot in the face the day before. Somthing like that is bound to traumatize a person. Evaltuations and such should be peformed to make sure that the soldier does not go back out with a case of the ass and an itchy trigger finger. They definately need to oust the media from those combat units. They endager the lives of soldiers just through the distraction they cause. The p.r. poblems that they cause are not worth it.

take no chances he guy could have been wired with enough explosives to take the building down and kill probably 20 U.S. soldiers or kill one guy who was fightin against us. i say we go with "He's dead now." Philosphy

oh no... one of our troops killed one of the people that were shooting at him before... who cares. 

He was only unarmed because the Liberal media 's said he was unarmed. If the media said otherwise, they'd be jobless because thats the only thing most of the US public wants to hear.

If they announce who it was that shot the insurgent, then I am going to send him and his family flowers.

"Red Dragon"

I cant agree more with adrenalinejunky and the others. War isn't beautiful, it isn't a seseame street special and it isn't a place to nitpick every single encounter with the enemy.

You hesitate, you die - its that simple.

This shouldn't be much of a surprise, though. The media made it unquestionable clear where they stood during this year's election - anywhere Bush isn't. (Fox being the exception)