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Business as Usual -- Part 2
It looks like this is going to be one of those things
the MSM drags out and tries to turn into something a lot bigger than it really
is. (From Euphoric Reality:
"If this situation goes any further at all, I feel a
war comin’ on (Pantano style)" I guess I should have made some reference to the original nonstory in
my original post. From
Time:
Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses
The desecration of Taliban dead prompts outrage in
Afghanistan
There simply wasn't enough room on the rocky
hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon
and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters. The Taliban men had been killed
in a firefight 24 hours earlier, and in the 90-degree heat, their bodies had
become an unbearable presence, soldiers who were present have told TIME. Nor
was the U.S. Army unit about to leave—the hilltop commanded a strategic view
of the village below where other Taliban were suspected to be hiding.
[...]
It was then that Lt. Nelson took the decision that could jeopardize his
service career. "We decided to burn the bodies," one soldier recounts,
"because they were bloated and they stank." News of this cremation might
have remained on these scorching hills of southern Afghanistan had the
gruesome act not been recorded on film by an Australian photojournalist,
Stephen Dupont. Instead, when the footage aired on Australian TV on
Wednesday, it unleashed world outrage. A Pentagon spokesman described the
incident as "repugnant" and said that the army was launching a criminal
investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in
violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights. [italics mine]
As Jason Van Steenwyk, who did the research Time didn't bother with,
points out
FM 27-10 (ref my post
here) states that:
Bodies shall not be cremated except for imperative reasons of hygiene
or for motives based on the religion of the deceased. In case of cremation,
the circumstances and reasons for cremation shall be stated in detail in the
death certificate or on the authenticated list of the dead.
Bare Knuckle Politics has links to two videos of what went on.
Blackfive did a great post on this
here
when the news first broke, and has an excellent follow-up post
here.
Do not miss Jason Coleman's latest post on this matter
here. A small but telling taste:
That's right, you heard it here. Mr. Martinkus has taken events, twisted
them out of proportion and then broadcast that psychological warfare
element back at the people of America and the world. Just as the PsyOps
operatives wished to enrage the Taliban and get them out into the open
where they could be destroyed, Mr. Martinkus is trying to get the American
people to become enraged at the actions of our own military. But we know
the facts now Mr. Martinkus! You can't twist them anymore, we've got
Stephen Dupont's pictures to disprove your words. We've got your history
in the anti-war movement and your own words supporting the actions of
terrorists and insurgents to prove that you sir, are on the other side.
Mr. Martinkus is fighing of behalf of the Taliban through the use of
psychological weapons of his own.
From
ROFASix
Geez, here we go again. All sorts of concerns steeped in cultural relativism.
Next thing you know we will have soldiers performing the washing ritual on the
bad guys they kill.
Have we lost our minds?
Other worthy posts on the matter:
Flopping
Aces, Emigre with a
Digital Cluebat,
Sister Toldjah, and
Chapomatic
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