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Skriven 2004-12-18 08:38:00 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
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>LL>Was the man who was shot booby-trapped?  No.  How did the Marines
>LL>know he was not booby-trapped?  The Marines had disarmed all of
>LL>the prisoners, including the one who was shot and killed.

>RH>That is not true.  You are a lying bastard.

>LL>Well, I guess that means you are not calling Kevin Sites a liar,
>LL>making him out to be a "lying bastard" instead.

>AH>Neither do you.

>LL>The rules of engagement require soldiers to determine hostile
>LL>intent before using deadly force.  Aside from breathing, nobody
>LL>observed the man in the mosque making any movement at all.  And
>LL>that includes the Marine who shot him dead.

>RH>You don't know what "Rules of Engagement" are.

>LL>Ah, but Lt. Col. Bob Miller does, as quoted by Kevin Sites.  ;)

>RH>You're making this shit up on the fly.

>LL>Read Kevin's blog.  It's a real eye-opener.  :)

>AH>With the situation as it is in Iraq, with suicide bombers and
>AH>booby-trapped bodies, the wise track is to assume that is the case
>AH>with every enemy you come across, until he shows otherwise.

>LL>What's that?  Shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out?  I thought you
>LL>had better sense than that.  You know the rules of engagement.  And
>LL>so do our soldiers.

>RH>Bullshit. Alan doesn't know the rules of engagement that those
>RH>Marines were operating under and neither do you.

>LL>You should be on Comedy Central.  Lt. Col. Bob Miller knows very
>LL>well what rules of engagement the Marines are supposed to be operating
>LL>under. That is why Sites quoted him on his blog.  ;)

>LL>Iraqi man in the mosque was a non-combatant.  And yet, the Marine
>LL>executed him.  In cold blood.  On camera.  For all the world to
>LL>see.

>AH>War is hell.

>LL>So is murder.  Especially for the one who is murdered.

>JH>third, you don't even know if the guy was an Iraqi or not.

>LL>The news media reported the man in the mosque was Iraqi.

>AH>Iraqi or not, he was an enemy combatant.

>LL>And a non-combatant.  One who showed no hostile intent when
>LL>a Marine shot him dead.

>RH>You can only guess, asshole.

>LL>Cameras do not lie.  And neither do videos.

JH>Cameras are made to lie all the time.  Its called special effects.
JH>And its even easier to do with digital than it was with film.

Hahahahahahahaha!  You *are* a card!  Claiming the video was doctored.
Oh, my.  You do realize the video was screened for two days before it
was deemed credible and submitted to the pool.  For Sites, or anybody
else, to have "doctored" the video would have been next to impossible.
After all, there aren't many Hollywood studios in Baghdad, or anywhere
else in Iraq.  :)

--Lee


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