Ater Fallujah
I say we send a mop-up team into NBC. (stovepipe hattip: LGF) Just to take away their cameras, of course.
For those who need the short version: Marines go into a mosque in Fallujah, bodies and wounded all over the place from previous action. One "body" moves, and a Marine shoots the guy's brains out. All of it captured on an NBC reporter's tape.
This isn't Abu Ghraib anymore, Toto. Wounded, schmoonded. Do you think this guy has been hanging out in the mosque since Friday prayers? Got lost on the way home and decided to go back to the mosque to get directions from the imam? They're terrorists. In a mosque. Some of these guys have been holding white flags, then firing at us. They're booby trapping dead bodies. They're playing dead, then shooting at us.
Some in the MSM are trying to ressurrect the Ghost of War Crimes Past, saying the wounded were from action the day before and had already been tended to, and were unarmed. If that's the case, I'll apologize.... to the terrorist's mommy.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but your son was such a stupid piece of crap, he was hanging out in a mosque, during a battle, with other terrorists, breaking every law of decency ever recorded. We were forced to shoot everything that moved in there, living or dead, wounded or not, armed or defenseless. We're sorry. Need a tissue?"
Why aren't the Rules of Engagement requiring our troops to shoot every last filthy bastard on sight?
NOT REALLY AN UPDATE UPDATE: I wonder how many NBC reporters were appalled at the use of flamethrowers at Iwo Jima, considering the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, and the kamikazee attacks on the Pacific Fleet? And ditto the incindiary bombing of Dresden, considering Warsaw, Dachau, and Auschwitz?
I'm just askin'. They were all violations of the rules of war, on both sides. But we all know who started what and when, right? I do.
