Marines under attack, crying for their lives...

I watched the sniper video,and saw nothing that claimed that those soldiers hit all died.
I saw 2 shoulder hits,and other body hits,but nothing that would indicate that all of those hit were killed.

Also,"juba" the sniper has been killed,by a USMC sniper brought in to hunt him down,so the video is rather old.

As for the video about the marines,what was the point.
EVERY soldier under fire,no matter how long the have been soldiers,reacts the same way when under fire.
Every soldier wants the shooting or shelling to stop,especially when they are not in a position to shoot back,or cant see where the fire is coming from.

Apparently,none of the marines were hit,and they were in a covered position.

mysteryman wrote:

I watched the sniper video,and saw nothing that claimed that those soldiers hit all died.
I saw 2 shoulder hits,and other body hits,but nothing that would indicate that all of those hit were killed.

Also,"juba" the sniper has been killed,by a USMC sniper brought in to hunt him down,so the video is rather old.

As for the video about the marines,what was the point.
EVERY soldier under fire,no matter how long the have been soldiers,reacts the same way when under fire.
Every soldier wants the shooting or shelling to stop,especially when they are not in a position to shoot back,or cant see where the fire is coming from.

Apparently,none of the marines were hit,and they were in a covered position.

Every soldier reacts the same way under fire? Do you even realize how dumb that statement is? I interviewed Vietnam MOH recipient Clarence Sasser for a presentation I had to do about the MOH, and he suprised me by saying that his reaction was just getting more and more PO'ed at seeing buddies getting shot. I'm sure the reactions run the gamut from abject terror to absolute assurance. I don't even think one can say with certainty how they themselves will react when under fire.

Sometimes hyperbole serves to make a point, but that's just ridiculous. You can't know how "every soldier" would react - no one can.

mysteryman, of course you dont believe Tillman said it. His friends and mother say he did but that dont suit your spin. And I've never said that every member of the sevice be arrested as war criminals. I said and still say Bushie and Blair should be arrested as war criminals. But I'll also say our troops participated in a war crime. They obeyed a CIC who abused his authority and lied us into war. Most servicepeople believed the lies. Far fewer do now and a clear majority of Americans say Bushie deliberately lied us into war. There is no higher crime thasn that.

What kind of friggin' unAmerican loon would want to hide this from the American public? This is war. This is what THEY voted for. This is the referendum THEY chose. The very least they can do-- besides slapping stupid magnetic ribbons to their behemoth, gas-guzzling SUVs-- is to look into the face of what they have wrought. I hope it makes them vomit up their Red Lobster all-you-can-eat shrimp dinner and recognize what they've done and whom they've consigned to hell.

For war is sheer hell and that was well known before Sherman made Georgia howl. THAT'S the exact reason that American kids shouldn't be sent off to war on the whim of a nitwit with the lie on his lips. THAT'S the exact reason no mother's son or daughter should be placed in harm's way absent an attack on our country or the provable existence of a direct threat thereto.

Unsettle the public? They deserve to be unsettled. Do mischief? Good grief! What's worse than destroying one country and killing 2500 Americans for nothing but hubris?

And the March of Folly continues....

THAT'S the exact reason no mother's son or daughter should be placed in harm's way absent an attack on our country or the provable existence of a direct threat thereto.

THAT'S the exact reason no mother's son or daughter should be placed in harm's way absent an attack on our country or the provable existence of a direct threat thereto.