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.

South Carolina - What Can We Expect?

As you can expect, there is a wide variance between polls on the Republican candidates going into the
South Carolina primary.

The latest blended poll numbers has it like this:

Mitt Romney                            29%

Newt Gingrich                          23%

Ron Paul (Mr Potatoe Head)  17%

Rick Santorum                         12%

Rick Perry                                 7 %

Jon Huntsman                           4 %

Well, this is what I think we can expect:

Romney and Santorum will do better than the latest polling data. Romney on the strength of his front runner status (and ad money) and Santorum because he picked up the endorsement of evangelicals in a state where 1 in 2 voters believe faith is very important in character, and character very important for their political
leaders to have.

Gingrich will do slightly worse, as well as Paul. Leaving Perry to pickup a few points and Huntsman to get about what he deserves,...around 3%.

I expect the finishers to be Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Perry then Huntsman. Perry could surprise us on the strength of his last couple of interviews ashe came off bashing Romney for his Bain experience and generally hasn't said anything outrageous. Anyway, look for Santorum to place second and continue on to Florida, where the Sunshine State probably won't be seeing anymore of Huntsman.

If Gingrich and Perry both get out of the race, look for the vast majority of their support to go to Santorum - that would make the race interesting giving some hope for a non-Romney candidate.

Peeing on Dead Terrorists

I am the only guy out there that finds the event where a supposedly a U.S. Marine Corps Scout-Sniper team peed on the bodies of some Taliban they killed as unbefitting the amount of press and reaction it is getting?

Sure, the act of peeing on dead people, whether they were intent on killing you or not is stupid, and really not what or how you think professionals would do. Memorializing the act with a video was stupid as well. It was colossally stupid to post the video on YouTube. The video is going to be used as a recruitment tool for Islamic terrorists everywhere and specifically in Afghanistan and make dealing with Afghan President Karazi much more difficult.

To see the liberal press make this out to be a giant and heinous crime is to be expected. However, to see Department of Defense officials, including Marine Corps officers elbowing each other out of the way so they can be the first to condemn this act and promise justice for the officers, just makes me sick. Let’s keep this in perspective.

What is a more heinous crime – strapping bombs to women, children and killing indiscriminately or peeing on an already dead boyd, and one that was previously trying to kill you? Where is the moral outrage from the press on terrorist attacks?

When the Prisoner abuse” scandal broke about Abu Gharib, the liberal press was blaming then President Bush. Let’s see if the liberal media will blame President Obama over these Marines pissing on dead terrorists. Clearly, Abu Gharib was not President Bush’s fault, nor were these Marines acting under Obama’s order to pee on dead Taliban.

Those Taliban terrorists being pissed on were not moving, they were bleeding and in fact not breathing ,....that’s what the FBI calls a clue. They were dead. That means they didn’t feel one golden drop. I’m saying that because before you know it the liberal mainstream media (there I go again being redundant - liberal and mainstream media being the same),..anyway, before you know it the mainstream media will be charging those Marines with torture, specifically water boarding those dead scumbags.

During the Philippine Insurrection, General Pershing reported had Muslim bandits buried with pig entrails - of course making these Muslim corpses unclean and unfit for ascendancy into Muslim heaven where of course the virgins were waiting. That's what we ought to be doing today.