Some Politicians Understand the Marines Pissing on Dead Taliban

I recently wrote that I thought I was the only one keeping the "urination on dead Taliban" issue in perspective. Since then, two politicians, Texas Governor Rick Perry and Florida Congressman Allen West see it similar:

Perry said it would be "over the top" to file criminal charges against four US Marines who urinated on dead militants in Afghanistan. "These kids made a mistake, there's not any doubt about it, but the idea that this administration would go after these young people for a criminal act is, again, over the top."

The US military has launched a high-level investigation and the four Marines have been questioned, while US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both expressed dismay at the acts and vowed that the culprits would be punished. We wouldn't expect anything better coming from Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta.

Perry, a former US Air Force pilot, described President Obama's administration's military policy as "disdain for the military... whether it's the secretary of state or whether it's the secretary of defense. "Did (the four US Marines) make a mistake? Absolutely. Should they be reprimanded and appropriately punished? Yes. But going after them as a criminal act I think sends a really bad message."

Perry recalled how General George Patton, during World War II, urinated in the Rhine River during the allied offensive push into Nazi. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly did the same thing on the famous German defense fortification line called the Siegfried Line" to show contempt for the Nazis.

Allen West (R-FL) and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel say's it better, in part: "I don't remember any press indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu (Somalia 1993). As for everyone, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

To read the full article on what Rep. Allen West said, go here.