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Originally Posted by tecoyah
This is an unfortunate, and isolated incident.
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How do you know? I've read numerous accounts of the killing of civilians. You have absolutely no idea whether it was isolated, so emphasising that word is completely inappropriate.
I'm not saying the Marines are going around killing innocents left, right and centre. But I'm certainly not sticking my head in the sand and refusing to believe that they are many of them pushing the legal limits, let alone the moral limits, of their actions.
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These soldiers commited an obvious criminal offense and are charged with such. It is at least hopeful that the incident was noticed, and is being dealt with.
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Agree 100%. This is far more reasonable statement.
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Warfare is never clean and proper, it is War and very messy. People die, and many are innocent. This is but one death out of what is likely hundreds a day, many of which (if investigated) would likely prove to be borderline murder, depending on the Yardstick used for measurment.
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You know, this statement could just as easily come from an Al Queda training manual.
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We have sent a relatively untrained force into the very worst kind of warfare, where there is no defined enemy.
Personally, I am amazed we dont hear of this sort of "offense" on a daily basis, as it most likely occurs quite frequently.
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I agree. Yet just a few sentences you were saying it was "
isolated". I think we all know this kind of thing happens a lot over there. And in every armed conflict.
Mr Mephisto