Marine who shot insurgent fighter
U.S Marines are not to shot wounded enemy fighters. However, over the week we have been bombarded with a new video, showing a U.S marine shooting a wounded enemy fighter? However, once the video tape was played in it's entirety. We notice that the marine stated twice that this enemy fighter was "faking" being dead? There were also other wounded enemy fighters in this mosque that were not shot.
However, it is U.S. policy if an enemy fighter is faking death, they may be ready to spring a grenade or other explosive killing coalition troops. In this instance, they are allowed to shoot the enemy fighter.
I was shocked to hear Colmbes, a liberal, state tonight on Hannity & Colmbes on Fox News station. That he was in support of this U.S. marine. And thought he did the right thing. At first, I was afraid this was going to turn into another Abu Grad scandal.
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