Fw: "Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell"

["Don Greenlaw" <dgreenlaw@cox.net>]

Fowarded. From the President of our local
CamPen MOAA Chapter. Formerly, TROA.

Semper fi,
Don Greenlaw
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Subject: FW: "Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell"




   What the Marines did was wrong but finally someone has it right!
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   Allen West on the Marines Incident: 'Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell'
   1:37 PM, Jan 13, 2012 . By DANIEL HALPER

   Representative Allen West (R-Fla.), a former Army lieutenant colonel, 
sends THE WEEKLY STANDARD an email commenting on the Marines' video, and has 
given us permission to publish it.


   "I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines 
urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation 
when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through 
Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our 
Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung 
from a bridge in Fallujah.

   "All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to 
chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne 
Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?

   "The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field 
grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer 
level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full 
dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to 
God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US 
Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.

   "As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut 
your mouth, war is hell.



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