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Originally Posted by moon
SomeMarine;
Clearly, considering the weight of opinion parallel to mine, the US military's reputation has been sullied. Rape, lies, premeditated murder and the backshooting of bound prisoners and torture are already tried and been proven. You don't think that that is reputation sullying ? All that training you have undergone hasn't helped you to think.
You are regurgitating the Haditha findings which I've already dismissed as a whitewash. However, this thread, and my comments which you take umbrage at, concerns another atrocity allegedly perpetrated by US marines, the slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan. You want to write off this one as 'collateral damage '?
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Exactly, YOU have dismissed them as whitewash because it doesn't fit your personal belief, a belief that is not founded on personal experience, but garnered through inaccurate reports in the media, slanders cast by members of Congress, and outright lies by the insurgents.
YOU have never been there to see how the insurgents operate. YOU do not know that it is their mode of operation to fire from crowds of women and children, or choose to ignore the fact.
YOU do not know that their mode of operation is to trap families in their houses and then draw American forces in hoping the innocents get killed, or you choose to ignore this fact.
YOU do not know that they set up multiple stage co-ordinated ambushes, in populated areas, with someone holding a video camera, so that when we return fire, if someone in the crowd they INTENTIONALLY place themselves in gets hit, they can cry about American atrocities to the media, or, you choose to ignore that fact.
You DO however, bash us for their actions.
Yeah, we have, unfortunatly, killed innocents. Yes, there have no doubt been murders committed. There is no moralizing these things. They are bad, and I, and every Marine I know, wish they have not happened. However, we prosecute and jail those who commit these acts, when they are committed outside of what is established as lawfull.