Let the Marines do their jobs...

So, a US Marine shot and killed an "unarmed insurgent" (a.k.a. terrorist combatant) in a mosque a couple of days ago. Amazingly, or not, this single act is getting wide media coverage. Much more than the brutal beheadings, disembowelment, dismemberment of civillians, as well as the barbarianism committed against our troops by these same insurgents! What the hell is going on!?! Does Al Jezeera own the major media in the US? Are they going to start showing the insurgent videos now (MSNBC did tonight)? Are they going start showing the Iraqi women and children killed or injured byUS bombing?

How's this for an "insurgent" resume:

- Margaret Hassan: Iraqi citizen; Aid worker; Kidnapped and shot in the head at point blank range

- 65 Iraqi policement kidnapped. People being trained to keep the peace and protect the Iraqi people!

- Iraqi truck driver kidnapped - rescued by US Marines (rescued, not shot)

- DOZENS of people, many of them women and children, were killed...

- ...officials said at least 10 Iraqis were killed amid a wave of violence across Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland...

- Islamic militants in Iraq have executed one of their two Bulgarian hostages.

- A militant group holding two Pakistani contractors hostage...

- Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, employees of a Gulf-based contractor, were beheaded...

- Nicholas Berg, 26, a Jewish-American businessman was beheaded ...

- ... Kenneth Bigley, an employee of a Gulf-based contractor, said it had "absolute proof" that he was killed by his abductors.

- ... so-called Islamic Army in Iraq said it executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni...

- Fabrizio Quattrocchi.... was shot dead within days...

- two Macedonians... executed by Islamic extremists in Iraq

- 12 workers taken hostage in Iraq by Al-Qaeda-linked militants were executed...

- migrant workers Sajid Naeem, 29, and Azad Hussein Khan, 49, were killed by Islamic militants.

- Islamic militants beheaded Kim Sun-Il

- September 2, militants said they had killed three other Turkish driver

- The body of a blonde woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found on November 14 lying on a street in Falluja

And that's what I found and was able to link to in less than 30 minutes. How many of these videos have been played for days?

You have to be able to tell the magnatude of difference between a Marine killing an enemy and terrorist killing their own people and people helping Iraqis.

Marines are trained to kill bad guys. That's what they do. There have been and will continue to be innocent lives lost in the process. The military has internal processes for identifying and dealing with unjustified killings.

In addition to being uncatagorically biased against the millitary and America's actions in the middle east, the showing and subsequent sensationalizing of the Marine video is irresponsible and treasonous. Kevin Sites appears to be a very good combat journalist. However, NBC's decision to move forward with the video is on-par with Al Jazeera and the state run Arab media, inciting people across the world making our military's job much more difficult.

So, while ABC appologizes for showing a "racy video" before Monday Night Football (racy my ass), most of the media in the US and abroad unabashedly show the Marine video day and night.

Treason:
Article. 3. Section. 3. Clause 1
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.


GET OFF THIS MARINES BACK! HE WAS DOING HIS JOB! HE WAS SHOT IN THE FACE THE DAY BEFORE! THESE "INSURGENTS" HAD BEEN KILLING HIS FRIENDS! WE WOULD ALL MUCH RATHER THAT THE IRAQIS HAD TAKEN CARE OF THESE PROBLEMS THEMSELVES.... BUT THEY DIDN'T. BACK OFF!