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Originally posted by Purrybonker
Mr. Sites reported that a marine in the same unit had been killed just a day earlier when he tended to the booby-trapped dead body of an insurgent.
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Ok, I'll grant that shooting unarmed prisoners is bad. But let's look at what we know about this other story: Marine going to tend an insurgent's body gets creamed. Wouldn't you be a little tense about enemy bodies after that? Wouldn't you be even more tense if you saw one that was still alive?
Modern warfare has rules -- military people need to be in uniform. People carrying out military action need to clearly differentiate themselves from the innocents. The reason for the rules is clear -- if one side in a conflict takes to non-uniformed combat, then all of a sudden everyone is a target. Children have been known to carry explosives (Vietnam war reference) -- therefore, all children are now potential enemies, and therefore are targets. Apparently dead bodies have been known to be booby-trapped -- so dead bodies aren't "safe" anymore. The "common sense" rule is "If it can kill me, it is an enemy." The Iraqi insurgents are making it impossible to tell the difference between warfighters and innocents, which puts US troops in an impossible position.
Dan