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Originally posted by badnarik@Nov 22 2004, 03:31 AM
timothy mcveigh was not a marine. he was in the army.
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I'll admit, I don't really know what the difference is. They seem like basically the same thing to me. They are all trained to be soldiers and they all witness similar events.
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how many times do you let the enemy fake injuries or booby trap bodies before you learn to kill them instead?# from what i saw, these injured combatants were not yet secured.# but then again i wasnt there.
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The reports say that the wounded had already surrendered to another group of Americans. You would think that they would have made sure they were disarmed.
And even if he was booby trapped, what good would shooting him at a relatively close range do? At best, he would be dead and booby trapped, and at worst, he could have detonated the booby trap and killed everybody. It is for that reason the "booby trap" excuse doesn't work for me.
Like I said in another thread about this, I honestly can't say that I wouldn't have done the same thing if I was there. But knowing this about myself, I would never join the armed forces. I just don't like the excuses being made to try and justify it. Most of them are hypocritical. Why can't we just admit that some of these soldiers make bad decisions and break the rules from time to time?