Marines Probe Puppy-Throwing Video

[merh]

Marines Probe Puppy-Throwing Video
Video Apparently of Marine Throwing Puppy Off Cliff Leads to Military Investigation
The Associated Press

HONOLULU

Military officials are investigating an Internet video that purports to show a Marine throwing a puppy off a rocky cliff.

Maj. Chris Perrine of the Marine Corps Base Hawaii says it appears the man is based with a unit in the islands.

Marine officials are calling the YouTube video "shocking and deplorable" and say it violates "the high standard we expect of every Marine."

The low-quality video shows two Marines joking as one holds up what appears to be a motionless black and white puppy, which he then hurls into a rocky gully.

A yelping sound is heard as it flies through the air.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4382193

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Good. I just hate that kind of stuff.

Makes me sick to my stomach. I hope they throw the Marine off the cliff and see how he likes it.

[Triana]

3. I agree - f*cking psychopath (n/t)

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Glad to see they're investigating this wanton cruelty and killing of a puppy

I wonder if they will ever get around to a thorough investigation of the wanton killing of Iraqi civilians.

Three-Stomp Blues: Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War

Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 03 March 2008

I. Absence of Evidence
There are many things that the American people are forbidden to know by the immensely profitable organizations that control the dispensing of information in the United States. Some things will simply not be reported, others will be distorted or sugar-coated or shellacked with fabrications until they bear only the most tangential connection to the actual events being "reported."

One of the most forbidden topics of all, of course, is the savage reality of the conflicts being fought in the name of the so-called "War on Terror." This global war – launched solely to advance a long-held, openly acknowledged militarist agenda of global domination by an authoritarian, lawless elite – has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, while corrupting and brutalizing the soldiers ordered, under knowingly false pretenses, to carry out the Dominators' sinister agenda. But the full story – and full force – of the crimes being committed every day in America's name, by American forces, at the command of America's leaders, are hidden from the American public by the American media. It is entirely possible to live your entire life as an active, engaged member of American society, diligently keeping up with the latest news from the most respectable sources, and never once have to confront this horrifying truth. The information-dispensers will not provide it for you; you have to seek it out yourself.

SNIP

II. "All I Saw Were Civilians"
The atrocities began in Iraq at the very start, from the first days and hours when the "mission" was being "accomplished" to a chorus of hosannas from the ex-generals and the war-profiteering commentators like Richard Perle brought in by the networks to provide "expert" analysis of the victorious campaign:

Jason Washburn…fought in the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 where, he says, he met little resistance. Most people were surrendering. "There were massive amounts of artillery strikes before we even invaded. We saw the results of that. Streets full of bodies – women and children – body parts, extremely indiscriminate. I’m talking about rolling through villages here, not military encampments."

He was told there was a military structure in one village. “I didn’t see it. I didn’t see any army uniforms. Or weapons. All I saw were civilians.”

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Washburn says Haditha was not an isolated incident. "It’s the one that just happened to be uncovered."

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1446/135/

[IntravenousDemilo]

4. They should no doubt be able to investigate both. After all, they're not entirely dim.

It's not as if the people who care about Iraqi puppies don't also care about the Iraqi people. They're not mutually exclusive. Compassion is compassion (except maybe in the phrase "compassionate conservatism").

[Beregond2]

5. Puppy

I'm an animal lover, but I have to say, what really makes me sick is how people in this country get more worked up over the murder of one puppy than the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

[merh]

6. Whatever it takes to get investigations underway

and to get the public to pay attention to the mental health concerns of our troops.

[Karenina]

7. And maybe examine what they've been

trained, brainwashed and browbeaten to believe...

[Critters2]

8. They've been trained to believe that, no matter what they do,

all good Americans will support the troops! This is what happens when a whole class of people are taught they are above reproach.

[merh]

10. It is truly amazing

I've debated former soldiers - they were part of the military during the first Gulf war or Somalia, they don't see what they went through to be trained (the survival school waterboarding and worse)as torture or what they have done as torture - but you can tell from their responses, they can't admit that it is torture, they just can't and live with themselves.

They may have watched as others did the torture, were abusive, and they did nothing. They were just doing their jobs.

It is truly frightening ...

[Canuckistanian]

9. It's more symbolic than anything else

Someone who has no regard for animals (especially puppies - representative of cuteness and innocence) and get their kicks from torturing or destroying them probably has no qualms about doing the same to people.

It's all about weeding out the obvious sociopaths - even if it's just a public relations exercise.