U.S. Marines Allegedly Urinate on Taliban Corpses

No one ever thinks about the fact that the military lowered their standards for entrance several times over the past ten years due to low recruitment levels... Due to the unpopular wars.

Blowback, exemplified.

What grinds my gears is the outrage that anyone would could ever consider that a member of the US military would do something like this. I can guarantee that without a doubt, someone from every branch that served in a combat role, from vietnam to the south pacific to europe, hell, prob even the civl war and the revolutionary war, pissed on someone they just killed. Its just that these idiots were stupid enough to allow themselves to be recorded doing it. When you put 19 or 20 year olds in a fucked up situation, fucked up things happen. And unlike the wars like the world wars, when, arguably, we were actually fighting something, today my fellow marines are fighting, killing, and dying for something they cant touch or feel or consider tangible in any sense of the word. They see the enemy as only someone who might try to kill them or who had just previously killed a friend of theirs. So when these misguided warriors take down the "enemy" they think of it as a great accomplishment to disrespect the enemy's slain body. This is what happens when winning wars is based on body count and not actual territory gained or lost. And that is what happens when the President starts a war without a declaration from congress.

My heart goes out to my fellow marines and their families, I can speak from experience the pain and suffering that this war put on our loved ones due to the damaged psyche of so many of our bravest and brightest. People say never forget, I say never again.

First:
This is coming from ABC News. It looks real, but the question should be wether it's ok that we had to kill these people...just don't pee on them?

Second I don't believe that you juano were ever a Marine. I have never in my military career heard a Marine say "I thank God every day I don't got any blood no my hands" and "these people are monsters". Who you talking about?

Your fellow Marines? Your Comrade in arms?

Whenever, we in the Military, go to war, we are there for one thing..Kill and Destroy.

They are and forever will be "Our Fellow Brothers"

...but I can't. If the headline read, "US Marines take human lives in undeclaired war" then I'd be outraged.

The fact that they pissed on them after KILLING THEM, really doesn't seem to bother me.

We send stone cold killers in to fight wars. The fact that they also like to piss on people after they've killed them isn't the problem. The problem is that we sent them to kill people in the first place.

American forces in Afghanistan are fighting with the most technologically advanced weaponry the world's ever seen. They can plant a hellfire, via remote control, right through a man's chest from a control room in Nevada. At a moment's notice, they can call in multiple air strikes, guided by GPS, night vision, the whole works.

Yet STILL, we're supposed to talk about how "brave" and "honorable" they are, fighting impoverished farmers with AK-47s and homemade explosives they have to PHYSICALLY PLACE and detonate themselves, then pray they can get the hell away before all HELL is unleashed on the area.

So brotha, I think we need a SERIOUS reassessment of who the dudes with the balls really are. It certainly ain't these arrogant, pissing, assholes who act like they just took out some Soviet Special Forces or something. You took out some scary farmers in ratty clothes and small arms, who just want you to get the FUCK OUT of THEIR COUNTRY! Such brave invaders you are.

"Soldiers! we have sinned against Almighty God. We have forgotten His signal mercies, and have cultivated a revengeful, haughty, and boastful spirit. We have not remembered that the defenders of a just cause should be pure in His eyes; that 'our times are in His hands... God is our only refuge and our strength. Let us humble ourselves before Him. Let us confess our many sins, and beseech Him to give us a higher courage, a purer patriotism, and more determined will; that He will hasten the time when war, with its sorrows and sufferings, shall cease, and that He will give us a name and place among the nations of the earth."
August 13, 1863 R. E. Lee, General.

in the video you can hear them talking about who shoot the one in the middle so in context they had just killed people who were trying to kill them and the really sad thing is that when they do come home they will have to fit back into society. its so sad

but for those of us who never served, you have to understand a few things. One of which, is that you are trained to not only kill the enemy but to dehumanize them...it makes the job much easier. It's the reason why there are no distinctive facial features on standard silhouette targets, or why bayonette dummies don't scream "ow" when you stick them.I see this behavior as a result of that mindset.

for me, the hypocrisy from the administration is astounding. These marines could have waterboarded them for information and that would have been ok. But the desecration of their bodies is being prosecuted as an 'over the top' offense, not because of the moral repugnancy of the act alone but because another cold hard truth of war bubbled to the surface and spoiled their image.