Abomination

This is an unconscionable abomination:

The U.S. military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said. The dramatic footage was taken Saturday by pool correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded a day earlier in the mosque had also apparently been shot the next day by the Marines.

I mean, of course, not the Marine's action, but the reporter's deliberate effort to discredit the US and its fighting men and the fact that this is eing "investigated."

How dare that reporter--who is almost certainly opposed to the war, as most of his pampered Birkenstock Bolshevik class is--and how dare the Establishment suits who made the decision to push this story forward--equally pampered, equally opposed to the military--stand in judgment of that young Marine. War is a nasty, ugly, sordid business; there is no way to make it otherwise. Attempting to blame soldiers in face-to-face action against the enemy for "war crimes" is an absurdity and an obscenity, especially when this is what they're fighting against:

Mutilated bodies dumped on Fallujah's bombed out streets today painted a harrowing picture of eight months of rebel rule.

Amid the rubble of the main shopping street, one decree bearing the insurgents' insignia - two Kalashnikovs propped together - and dated November 1 gives vendors three days to remove nine market stalls from outside the city's library or face execution.

Another poster in the ruins of the souk bears testament to the strict brand of Sunni Islam imposed by the council, fronted by hardline cleric Abdullah Junabi. The decree warns all women that they must cover up from head to toe outdoors, or face execution by the armed militants who controlled the streets.

Two female bodies found yesterday suggest such threats were far from idle. An Arab woman, in a violet nightdress, lay in a post-mortem embrace with a male corpse in the middle of the street. Both bodies had died from bullets to the head.

Just six metres away on the same street lay the decomposing corpse of a blonde-haired white woman, too disfigured for swift identification but presumed to be the body of one of the many foreign hostages kidnapped by the rebels.

This from the London Times, hardly a hotbed of sympathy for the war or Red State values. This is what the young Marine was fighting, whether or not his proximate actions were wrong. Every islamist thus killed, armed or no--'rightly' or no, is one who is no longer able to booby-trap wounded mujahedin in order to kill Marines who come to their aid; or kill children with roadside bombs somewhere else in Iraq; or disembowel foreign female aid workers; or cane to death native girls who are inadequately bhourka-ed; or survive to old age in a Canuckistan pensione, working with a young leftist lawyer from San Francisco or Paris to sue the Marine who shot him for violating his rights as a "citizen of the world"; or emigrate to Michigan as a "student" with vials full of Sarin, single-cell protein, or enriched Uranium. Kudos to that young Marine! May he stick around to aerate a thousand more islamocockroaches!

Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

Monk