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Home Front: WoT
Rumsfeld on 'kill team' photos: 'Much worse' than Abu Ghraib
2011-03-30
Video from the Washington Times. NOW will this bust out in the MSM?

If Bush and Rummie were to be blamed for Abu Ghraib (and Andy Sullivan said they were), then Bambi gets the blame for inappropriate behavior of our troops in Afghanistan.

Or, we start to behave like adults and recognize that this is an isolated problem, just as Abu Ghraib was. Oh, what are the chances of THAT happening?
Posted by:Steve White

#11  I basically don't trust our media.

Rolling Stone is a left-wing pub. with an agenda of sensationalism. They picked it up from Der Spiegel.

It is reminiscent of John F. Kerry's testimony concerning atrocities before Congress at the Winter Soldier Investigations--most of what he said was found to be untrue. Kerry said:
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

Kerry had a leftist anti-war agenda. He made up $hit. It may have been worse than that.

What Yon said makes sense.

Posted by: JohnQC   2011-03-30 19:13  

#10  Let's be clear; Michael Yon is calling Bullshit on Rolling Stone, not Don Rumsfeld. Yon says:
The story is titled “THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.” It should be titled: “BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone.”

The story—not really an “article”—covers Soldiers from 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) in Afghanistan. A handful of Soldiers were accused of murder. It does in fact appear that a tiny group of rogues committed premeditated murder.
The reason these scum should be punished so severely is that they make it possible for their fellow scum at Rolling Stone and the MSM to villify the entire military.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-03-30 19:10  

#9  "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-Gen. George S Patton
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-03-30 19:08  

#8  Dr. White - How could you? Forget, that is.

Afghanistan is still Bush's war. It's just not as bad a bad war as the really bad war which took away valuable resources from the not-so-bad war in A'stan.

The only Bambi war is Libya. It's a good war, because it's humanatarian. And it doesn't take away resources from the ... the ... where was I?

I think my keyboard was kontrolled by Kos Kiddies. It's all better now.
Posted by: Bobby   2011-03-30 19:02  

#7  Michael Yon was imbeded with this unit. He's calling bullshit.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2011-03-30 18:52  

#6  I doubt Morlock thinks the court martial was a plant.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-03-30 18:45  

#5  This sounds like a news planted effort. I can't believe that they would do this and take photos.
I need more information and verification to understand these events. I basically don't trust our media.
Posted by: Dale   2011-03-30 18:03  

#4  Meanwhile, back in Iraq, 50+ murders by a jihadi 'Kill Team' is just routine news.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-03-30 15:05  

#3  Let's hope this does not break out on the MSM. If it does, al-Jizz will keep it on the air for 18 months. And that won't help. Especially after Morlock got what could be an 8 year sentence. DoD needs some quick convictions of the other perps and some quick executions.

And Armed Forces is NOT a synonym of Kill-Team. Armed Forces act with discipline to apply violence to achieve policy ends on behalf of a political entity. Kill-teams, as used in this case, are sadistic perverts who perpetrate violence on those unable to defend themselves or surrender for the mere pleasure of seeing another human being suffer. To compare them is to do an injustice to those who will endure combat and risk their own death and dismemberment to defend us.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-03-30 14:05  

#2  The lamestream media beat the dead horse of Abu Ghraib for over 18 months on a daily basis - never mentioning that it was already being investigated when the media 'uncovered' it.

I doubt this will get 18 minutes - total.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-03-30 13:49  

#1  Is not "Armed Forces" a synonym of Kill-Team?

Does someone think that the Islamists are firing paintball guns?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-03-30 13:30  

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