Seven Marines and a Navy Corpsman were participants in the murder of an Iraqi man. They dragged him out of his home to a nearby ditch, scattered empty shell casings around him and KILLED him. What have we become?

The first interview with one of those 8 men is reported here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/marines_iraq_shooting

I was a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam. I know atrocities happen in every war. But this kind of story provides our enemy with a huge recruiting tool. This kind of story should NEVER happen! This kind of story is only one of MANY things wrong with this war which the Bush administration started and continued through lies and doctored intelligence. The attorney for the Marine interviewed for this story said:

"The biggest frustration was ... how this all happened, and why eight great Americans who had sacrificed so much for this country would do something that on first glance seemed so horrible, was not going to find its way into evidence," Low said.

ON FIRST GLANCE?!? Which "glance" makes ANY of this right? What kind of training makes this kind of thing possible? What kind of leadership tolerates this kind of behavior? What have we become?

Da Dawei had a fun little blog on Daily KOS:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Here's my comment about it:

Protest is, for the lack of a better word, GOOD! (0 / 0)
You know, I was thinking...
Do REAL terrorists use these "key" words?  Are terrorists really as incompetent as our Executive branch?  If they are, we have little to fear.  If they aren't, however, maybe Gonzales et.al. should be looking for code words like: ice cream, sex, warm summer evening...  You know, stuff like that.  

'Cause, guess what...  If I were a terrorist, I wouldn't say

Terrorist Alliance Jew Israel Jerusalem Osama Bin Laden Palestine Freedom Middle East Ooga Booga Saudi Arabia Afghanistan Tony Snow Heroin Gonzales Bush Cheney BLLLLLAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHH!!!! Mecca Suicide Bombings 9/11 9/11 9/11 Iraq Iran Syria Lebanon Jordan Al Qaeda in Iraq...
(Hey, this is fun.)
... Oil Gas Prices Breakfast at Tiffany's Karl Friggin Rove Hate Hate Hate Sean Hannity Bill O'Reilly President Hillary Clinton General Petraeus President Barak Obama Ted Stevens President John Edwards  MUAHAHAHAHA!!!! Conspiracy Lackawana Peace Bring Home the Troops It's The Democratic Party You Cowardly Republican Scumsucking Ninnyheads DailyKos (AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! NOT THAT HATE SITE!!!) Senate Intelligence Committee CIA Valerie Plame Wilson Joe Wilson Condi Rice Colin Powell Brit Hume I Hate George W Bush The Scariest Terrorist On Earth...

I'd say banana split instead of IED or maybe blowjob instead of US President...  Oh, yeah, that was our GOOD president...  Never mind..

My cousin Gladys had the perfect word for this administration:  

RI-#@*$-INGDICULOUS!

Thanks for the smiles boys and girls.  Keep up the GREAT work and I look forward to meeting you all at Gitmo for the next KOS convention.