Fw: Americans don't share liberal outrage over urinategate

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

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Don Greenlaw
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 January 13, 2012
 Americans don't share liberal outrage over urinategate
 BY Russ Vaughn

 The liberal media and administration officials are seething with shocked 
outrage at the release of a video depicting the desecration by urination of 
three Taliban corpses by four U.S. Marines. Interestingly, the American 
public is neither as incensed nor apparently even shocked by the revelation. 
The Washington Post in its online account has included a reader poll with 
these three options:

   What was your reaction to the video that appeared to show Marines 
urinating on three Afghan corpses?

   It's an unacceptable desecration - 12%

   It's an embarrassment - 7%

   It's not surprising -- things like this happen in war - 81%

   Total Votes: 13,445

 No doubt the enraged elites will be equally outraged at such poll results, 
evidence of the validity of their snide condescension toward the majority of 
Americans who to them are nothing more than vulgar barbarians clinging to 
their God and their guns. What that poll says to me is that the American 
people understand that while urinating on your dead enemy may show a serious 
lack of respect, it in no way rises to the level of seriousness of that of 
actually killing them.

 But then again, the liberals are the same folks who don't give second 
thought to launching a Hellfire missile from a drone and wiping out a squad 
of Taliban or Al Qaeda but woe be unto the American trooper who dares 
inflict pain on a survivor to obtain critical intelligence. They're the same 
fools who deplore American forces for not fighting fair. Of that concept, 
warrior/author, Col. David Hackworth, R.I.P., famously said, "If you find 
yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly."

 Democratic Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, was quick to describe the 
actions of the Marines as, "Utterly deplorable." What I find utterly 
deplorable is another news story today that is being ignored by the liberal 
media although it is spreading in the conservative blogosphere. It concerns 
an excerpt from a new book about our Mideast wars by Michael Hastings, The 
Operators, wherein a state department official describes the 
less-than-commander-in-chief-like behavior of Barack Obama on a visit to 
Baghdad:

   After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he 
starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. 
embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad. He's asked to go 
out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers. He's 
asked to sign copies of his book. "He didn't want to take pictures with any 
more soldiers; he was complaining about it," a State Department official 
tells me. "Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let's just 
say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here 
who've been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and 
he didn't want to take f***ing pictures with them?"  (emphasis added)


 As an old combat infantryman who served, incidentally, in the same 
Airborne infantry regiment at the same time as Col. Hackworth in Vietnam, 
I've witnessed post-mortem desecration, usually not by our troops, but not 
infrequently by our Asian enemies, not to mention our Asian allies. Such 
practices are not uncommon in many regions of the world and generally only 
become news when it's our troops who get caught doing it. My reaction to 
this incident tends to reflect the views of that huge 80% majority polling 
at WAPO that things like this happen in war.

 So for our Marines, that's a big Semper Fi!

 To the Marines involved in this incident, some advice from Ol' Sarge: You 
may be under heavy fire for now, but that poll, in one of the nation's most 
prominent major liberal newspapers, should tell you that the American people 
are willing to forgive and forget. We can only hope that Leon and his 
generals will take note of the numbers. What all our warriors have to 
remember is that with these liberal airheads who unfortunately control most 
of the news, it's OK to keep hunting down these jihadists and killing them 
as long as you do so in a tastefully sensitive manner. You know, like a 
metrosexual Marine Corps.

 So hey, you tough-guy Marines, next time, to keep from whipping up a froth 
among the weenies at WAPO, just keep 'em zipped.