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:	post by PatMeebles at 2006-06-22 21:56:18

The media is not going to milk this story one bit. They're too hyped up on nihilism and relativism in order to see that what happened to these marines is bad. Underwear and shocked testicles = Human rights abuse front page story. Two Marines having their eyes gouged out while they're alive, followed by beheading = Page B12. What's worse about these two incidents from both sides of the war is that the media and the left seem to refuse to admit what makes our side better than the terrorists. When Abu Ghraib happens, everyone INCLUDING the military gets outraged and prosecutes those guilty soldiers to the fullest extent of the law. When 7 Rangers and a Navy officer execute an Iraqi man, they're prosecuted and our side gets outraged. However, when terrorists do to two Marines horrible things that make Abu Ghraib look like, well, underwear on the head, the insurgents CHEER. It's in their playbook to do these horrific and inhumane act. Where we still have horrible acts, we don't condone them. Where terrorists do horrific acts that are 10 times worse, it's CELEBRATED! That's why I'm so outraged by this.

And why do you think that Marines should be able to "take" this?! What do you think this is, Kurt Russel in "Soldier?!" Marines are not trained to be unemotional robots. They are human beings, and they have a bond that most of us don't have here at home with other people. They might as well have a family member die. If your dad was a cop, and he was killed in the line of duty in Roxbury, are you just going to say "Well, he knew the risks, so there's no need for me to get angry. Hell, I bet he wouldn't mind me skipping his funeral." What if he was mutilated beyond recognition? This is why the Marines are especially mad at this instance; not only did their friends die, but what happened to them was so barbaric that it should be beyond the debate of "should we care." And to think, people get more worked up about 1/10 of the horror because it's done by our side. Goddamn hypocrisy makes me sick...

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