So the Mil can rape & kill a 14 y/o girl but better not toss a puppy?

[elehhhhna]

Just saying.

[LostinVA]

1. They shouldn't be allowed to do either

And animal abuse is linked to human abuse.

[NMMNG]

2. Where are you getting that from?

Oy vey.

[Taverner]

5. The Haditha Murders

[NMMNG]

9. Who says people weren't outraged over them?

I recall plenty of furor over them.

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. Says who?

Do you mean the media response, DU response, military response?

[demmiblue]

4. Both are vile.

[Selatius]

6. I remember hearing in Viet Nam that you couldn't write "fuck you" on a warplane because it's obscene

But that warplane dropping napalm on villages and burning civilians was OK. The insanity of war.

[goddess40]

7. They have dehumanized non-American's to this point

and that should scare us all. American's think that we are so above the rest of the world and it's even worse here. We also have a serious case of I've got mine screw you mentality which also covers if it doesn't affect me directly I don't care.

[civildisoBDence]

8. MSNBC played the video over and over again this morning

How sick.

The Haditha murderers have been convicted and sentenced, if I remember right.

The (alleged) puppy killer will be out of the Corps soon enough.

There are more details and some links here:

http://newsprism.wordpress.com/">NewsprismBlog

[walldude]

10. So far no one has been able to authenticate this video

so we don't even know if it's real. If it turns out to be true then maybe people who don't get it yet might learn the cost of this war in terms of humanity.

[FlyingSquirrel]

15. Even if not real, who could say that a US soldier would never do such a thing?

They've become hardened to death and cruelty. Killing a puppy would be NOTHING to many of them.

[walldude]

18. Exactly my point about war and humanity... n/t

[Peregrine Took]

11. Didn't that girl withdraw her claim about the attack?

[Samurai_Writer]

12. I doubt a dead girl could 'withdraw her claim'.

She was not only raped and murdered, but her little sister and parents were murdered as well.

[lumpy]

14. If this is the same rape and murder, the soldiers tried to burn

the body. Losing track of these atrocities in Iraq.

[aquart]

13. Another sanctimonious holier than thou comparison?

Sorry we don't meet your standards.

[elehhhhna]

16. sure, why not? ironic to me.

[Sugar Smack]

17. Is this about TV coverage or is it about DU response?

[Skittles]

19. there's no "he said she said" with puppies

much harder to blame the victim

[CRF450]

20. Because people are actually seing it rather than just "hear" about it.

[ShaneGR]

21. Just wanted to point out, those soldiers were punished

No one said it was ok to do either thing.