Marine Group in Iraq Issues Statement Blasting Images (of Dead Marine?)

[leftchick]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050803_2323.html

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2005 – Marine Corps officials in Iraq issued an emotionally worded statement today as they investigate whether a body in a video and photographs circulating in the region are of a Marine killed in action this week.

The Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad released the statement on behalf of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), which has lost 21 Marines to terrorist attacks in the last three days, including 14 who died in a roadside bomb explosion this morning.

"We are aware that a video and photos exist of a body purported to be a Marine killed in action near Haditha on Aug. 1," the statement said. "We are reviewing the materials to determine if the body shown is one of the Marines killed that day."

Six Marines were killed in action near Haditha Aug. 1.

The statement went on to express condolences to the fallen Marines' families, friends and comrades, and regret that the images are circulating.

[Career Prole]

1. What the hell do you people want?!

We give you an inch of flag-draped casket photos and you take a mile!

:sarcasm:

[mike_c]

2. google "dead Iraqi" and then tell me why this marine's image...

...was so bloody sacred. Why aren't the marines issuing "emotionally worded statements" about all of those dead?

on edit-- and it's a LIE that those marines were killed by "terrorists." :grr:

[pocket]

4. no kidding

google "terrorist" in Arabic and you may find a picture of a marine!

[leftchick]

5. yep

I think of the marines and soldiers and their thousands of personal photos of dead Iraqis they post on the web. Hurts doesn't it?

:(

[mike_c]

11. btw, just so you know-- the sarcasm/anger in my response...

...was rhetorical, and not directed at you. I think you probably know that, but sometimes I forget to make it clear that my disgust was about the information contained in the post. :hi:

[leftchick]

15. I knew it

we are all disgusted by the bullshit.

:hi:

[sniffa]

3. didn't hear of the photo(s) yet

i'm sure i won't have to bring it up, but 'terrorist attacks'?

[leftchick]

6. well consider the source

everyone in the ME is a "terrorist" according to the US military

:eyes:

[Barrett808]

7. Well, DVDs of IED ambushes are popular items in Iraq

I wouldn't be surprised if videos of dead Marines aren't flying off the shelves as well.

[Straight Shooter]

22. No kidding.

The "chocolate and flowers" Iraqis will have that DVD next to the one of Nick Berg's beheading.

Everything is so twisted and f*cked up. Thanks, bush. x(

[Renew Deal]

8. Terrorist attacks?

Attacking civilians is terrorism. Attacking uniformed soldiers is war. There's a difference.

[redwitch]

9. Why would anyone want to view such images?

I too regret that these images are circulating. What a sickening mess the whole thing is. War in general I mean. When I was a teenager my dad was friends with a lawyer defending an eighteen year old marine accused of taking "souvenirs" in Nam. These were ears from dead Viet Cong. I don't remember what kind of time, if any, he served, but it seems to me that war is the great uncivilizer of us all. And for someone to take photos like this (on any side) for sport shows that they have been dehumanized by the circumstances/regimes under which they find themselves.

[Kraklen]

10. I want to view them.

I want you to view them. I want every American to view them and understand what this bullshit is about.

[NNN0LHI]

21. Our cable media didn't play "Weekend At Bernie's" with Uday and Qusay...

...dead bodies for like ten days straight because there is no audience for that stuff. Most bo-hunks eat that shit up. Its just the way it is.

Don

[neuvocat]

12. Will they still be sorry if its a dead terrorist?

I wonder if they were just as sorry when Rumsfeld decided to show off the dead bodies of Saddams sons.

[KansDem]

13. Here is a collection of such photos from "our side"

http://www.undermars.com/

[leetrisck]

14. Prayers for all and their families

and our countries.

[Tempest]

16. HYPOCRITES!

Where was their outrage when the photos of Saddam's dead sons were published?

Or the photos of dead Iraqi soldiers during "shock and awe"?

[DELUSIONAL]

17. the effects of war shouldn't be sanitized

Yes it was shocking to see the images of the Vietnam war -- but it is also TRUTH.

War is horrible -- and we need to be reminded of the effects of war on BOTH sides.

[bluedonkey]

18. I think they should show

the pics of our dead soldiers!It's the only thing that will finally bring this war into everybodies livingroom.It will stop the war tomorrow!
Show them 24/7 on all channels!Show those war-cheering-pigs what this war is all about.

[Bumblebee]

19. So it's okay to put Marines unnecessarily in places where they're blasted

but then you blast images of them being dead?!! Totally Orwellian

[malaise]

20. That's why everyone must obey the Geneva convention

there are no special rules for people who violate said rules.

[dArKeR]

23. Start using you brain as Hackett is! Start complaining to the person

responsible! BUSH!