Today there is outrage because of the video of U.S. Marines pissing on some dead Taliban.  The liberal left, loudly supported by the RINO in Chief, John McCain, are outraged.  They are even talking about prosecuting these men.  So far, only one Presidential candidate, Rick Perry, has had the courage to stand up for these men.

In 1945, General George Patton took a brief pause in his drive toward Germany to piss in the middle of the Rhine.  In case you doubt this, I included a picture:

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Buchenwald/GeneralPatton.html

It just seemed like the thing to do.

The sad fact is that war is about killing people.  The liberal left cannot grasp this concept.  They celebrate Obama ordering the assassination of Osama bin Laden.  They worship at his feet as a great military leader for ordering an unmanned drone to execute a U.S. citizen, without even the pretense of due process.  Yet they are outraged at the very thought of waterboarding, although it does no permanent damage and certainly doesn’t kill anyone.  Now they are horrified that our troops dared to desecrate the bodies of people they had just killed in firefight.  This reminds me of the woman on TV in San Francisco who was outraged about hunting and said she only ate meat from a Supermarket so no animal had to die.  Apparently the liberal left is ok with killing someone, as long as they don’t have to watch and we treat the body with sufficient respect.  This explains why after sending the Navy Seals in to off bin Laden, we wrapped him up in a nice linen cloth and gave him a sweet Muslim sendoff to the hereafter. 

If are troops are killed by the Taliban, and the Taliban gets control of the body, they decapitate it, put in on a spike and then take turns slapping the head with their shoes. Of course if they are really angry, they do more.  Do you really think a picture of Marines doing their business on them is going to suddenly make them angry at us?  Please!  They are angry at us for existing!

The Marines should not have done this.  It was, at best, a dumb idea.  But who are we to judge these young men who have just survived a vicious battle with people determined to kill them?  Who benefited by the posting of this video?  It certainly did nothing for the family of the dead Taliban soldiers.  It also did nothing to help end this bitter war.  If anything, it just made everything worse.  There is no war crime here, just totally irresponsible conduct, not by the marines, but by those who exploited the situation.  Obviously a portion of the blame goes to those who took the video and posted it on youtube.   But they are only naïve, stupid and irresponsible. 

The real outrage should be toward the main stream media.  If any of you watch major sports on television you will notice that the TV broadcasters never show video of someone from the stands running across the field.  The reason for this is that they don’t want to reward such people with free publicity.  If the media can be disciplined enough to not show something as silly as a fan running out on a playing field, they can be disciplined enough to not run this type of story.

Once again, we are focusing blame on the wrong side of the camera.

TDM