Not terribly funny, that sort of thing isn't my taste. Sort of low brow humor at best.

I have to admit that I laughed at it. That doesn't make it appropriate.

On the other hand, just because something's innappropriate doesn't make it unfunny.

No doubt these guys are under a lot of stress. No doubt that sick and innapropriate humor helps people deal with this sort of stress. It's still sick and innapropriate.

If this had been an inside joke, if this had not have gotten out for public consumption, it would still have been innapropriate. But now that it has it's particularly unfortunate. Does America need any more bad press?

i feel the same way. this isn't the kind of thing i'd find myself laughing at...even though there have been times where i've laughed as some pretty sick things...

hmm, maybe this is the real one:

http://homepage.mac.com/deeprave6969...248E4111D8.jpg

I didn't find the first one very funny when it arrived in my email a while back.

Why? Would you pass on the "momentary lapse in judgement" that caused a driver to crash a car whilst speeding? Or a robber to pull the trigger on a gun during a hold-up?

In Nothern Ireland during the Troubles, there were soldiers who were convicted of murder for shooting civilians in situations that make this look farcical. Their "momentary lapse[s] in judgement" cost them years in prison and rightly so.

- Mr Mephisto

No matter how "momentary" this lapse in judgement might have been, those kids don't look as if their father was just killed, so I don't think the message on the sign is true. In that case, why is this soldier being compared to Irish soldiers that killed civilians. So this soldier made fun of some kids. Should he put put in prison for YEARS of his life? C'mon?

That's not what I meant, and I think you know it.


Mr Mephisto

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/boudreaux.asp

Check that out. I doubt any marine would be dumb enough to write something like that and then get it photographed, especially with the technology we have today, he must have known it would only be a matter of time before it would get leaked onto the net.

It's not funny, but it's gotta be a fake. I mean, who the hell would be stupid enough to pose for THAT picture. This isn't civilian life where the asshole would get a 60 second slap on the wrist on the talk show circuit, this is the military, where he'll be busted down to private and shipped off to Antartica to guard the penguins.

It's a funny, funny pic imo. That's definately on the top 10 things to do when occupying a country from a soldiers standpoint, I'd say. The uproar over it is unfounded, just a case of things like this reaching more people than they did in the past.

Also, funny and moraly right aren't linked in any way whatsoever.

it is funny, but i heard it was shoped. the original photo is suppose to say something else(or at least that is the guys defence.)

I found it hillarious, but not because of the sign, but because of dumb ass Boudreaux who was stupid enough to appear in the photo. I bet Boudreaux's ass will be served on a silver plate, specially now with all the "US army iraqi abuse".

Same thing here. I know it's wrong, and that man should be ashamed for doing that if he did trick the kids into that stunt...but at the same time, I still see the humor in what he did and can laugh. I just didn't laugh in this particular instance.

Thats not funny, what would have been funny is if Boudreaux was shot in the head while posing for that picture, and someone held a sign over his dead body making a fucked up comment.

God I hope you burn in hell. That would be funny too.

That's how I feel. Maybe I have a different sense of humor, but it's just not funny. I don't give a damn about the fact that it's tasteless and mean...it's simply not funny. Sorta like all of the new "owned" pictures on the Internet that make no sense and aren't owned pictures at all.

-Lasereth

That one is about ten times funnier than the other one. A soldier bragging about how many people he saved is actually funny. It creates a line in between "he's a good guy, saving so many people" and "he shouldn't brag." He shouldn't brag, but he DID save people...

-Lasereth

I think its funny. The soldiers over there are not politicians giving speaches. They're human. They need a little fun to break the stress. I don't think this is evil in any way, nor does it imply that he hates iraqis. I've done similar enough things to my own friends. Nobody gets offended. Men making crude jokes at the expense of others is common and meaningless.

Most importantly, this didn't hurt anyone!

I think it's funny.