Video Shows U.S. Marines Urinating On Dead Taliban
WARNING: The below video contains graphic content and may be disturbing to some viewers. The Pentagon launched an investigation Wednesday after being alerted to a video posted on YouTube that shows four active duty combat Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. Although the Marines in the video have yet to be identified, a military source tells NBC News “it should be pretty easy” to do so.
NBC News also reports that military officials confirmed the men in the video were part of a sniper team out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., that served in Afghanistan for several months in early 2011.
In a statement, a U.S. Marine Corps official was quick to distance the organization from the video: “The actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps.”
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nubbytubbybiatchesgalore a year agoAnd yet, it is the Taliban who are busy throwing acid in the face of little school girls. It is the Taliban who enslave the children of indebted farmers, forcing girls to become child brides, selling boys as sexual slaves, and keeping many for their own sexual use. It is the Taliban who stone rape victims to death and who flog women with audacity not to be fully covered and accompanied by a relative in public. It is the Taliban who target unarmed civilian aid workers and behead journalists. the taliban are evil. people who kill and piss on the taliban are not. And remember, the US has the power to defeat the Taliban with one bomb, leaving nothing but “The Waziristan crater”. Do you think the Taliban, if able, would exercise that kind of “humane” restraint? and anybody seen “the pacific”? remember what the marines did the bodies of dead japanese soldiers?
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ncpmed a year agoI seem to remember during the Iraq war, 4 us contractors were drug from their car through the streets, hung from a bridge, beaten, and burned. I also remember soldiers, citizens, and reporters being beheaded on camera in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I understand that urinating on a corpse is no better, but let us remember people, this is war. Atrocities are going to be committed unfortunately. The fact of the matter is this is just another reason for an already hostile region to hate us. This was not a wise or honorable action, however this is war and war never changes.
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oOo a year ago“The actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps.” Uh, yes they are. There those Marines are on camera doing that thing. That’s their character. That’s exactly what it indicates. If it weren’t their character they wouldn’t have done it.
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Melvin Undershorts a year ago
When human beings are trained to kill other people what do you expect?
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sage a year ago
If members of the American military do things of this sort, the moral high ground of which they speak has to be abandoned.
How can the United States stand in front of other nations be they tyrannical or not, and claim America is the beacon of morality which they should follow?
The actions depicted in the video might not be indicative of all the marines core value, but it has been proven time and time again, that it only takes a few idiotic decisions to irreparably damage a cause one claims to be good. -
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edgerrton a year ago“and Americans wonder why the entire world hates them” really?
What these marines did was terrible, and any comment on here that tries to excuse their actions is just as bad, but please please please do not clump every American into the shithead category that these guys are in. -
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ModernCowboy13 a year ago
@dude man They very well probably would have killed me with no hesitation and yes maybe they “Deserve” it but that does not mean we should do it, we should show respect and decency in hopes of building a better tomorrow ….. Not just piss all over it.
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ryethebread a year agoWar just sucks, if you hate it, stop driving and using all petroleum based products (like your computer) and start being 100% self-sufficient. We are a growing planet with finite resources and we are going to keep fighting over resources to survive, and I’m sorry to say, but it’s just going to get worse. These are the salad days, my friends. If you play a game of Civilization or Age of Empires and you see some other people mining your gold or chopping down your forest, what do you do? You attack them and kick their asses and take what you need. This is just a game of Civilization, but it’s real people dying and real civilizations. Welcome to the real world, it’s pretty terrible.
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