Rick Perry, the Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor, sympathizes with the urinating Marines in controversial video and calls them ‘kids,’ not criminals.
Washington / NationalTurk – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry on Sunday accused the Obama administration of “over-the-top rhetoric” and “disdain for the military” in its condemnation of a video that purportedly shows four US Marines urinating on corpses of slain Afghan insurgents in Afghanistan.
Rick Perry’s comments put him at odds with Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said the images could damage the war effort.
McCain shows dissapointment at urinating Us soldiers
“The Marine Corps prides itself that we don’t lower ourselves to the level of the enemy,” McCain said when asked about Perry’s position.
“So it makes me sad more than anything else, because … I can’t tell you how wonderful these people (Marines) are. They are fantastic. And it hurts their reputation and their image.” No one has been charged in the case, but officials in the U.S. and abroad have called for swift punishment of the four US Marines.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that he worried the video could be used by the Taliban to undermine Afghan peace talks.
A military criminal investigation and an internal Marine Corps review are under way for the 4 Marines, that cannot hold their piss. The Geneva Conventions forbid the desecration of the dead.
Rick Perry stated the Marines involved should be reprimanded but not prosecuted on criminal charges.
Rick Perry to Us soldiers defiling the dead: They are kids playing with sticks
“Obviously, 18-, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often. And that’s what’s occurred here,” the Texas governor told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He later added: “What’s really disturbing to me is the kind of over-the-top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military.” Later appearing on the same show, McCain said he disagreed.
“We’re trying to win the hearts and minds” of the Afghanistan population, he said. “And when something like that comes up, it obviously harms that ability.”
Afghanistan thinks US is evil and what these 4 ‘kids’ having license to kill have done strengthen the idea.
NationalTurk staff have to ask republican candidate Rick Perry : Do the USA send kids to war ?
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