Marine Throws Puppy Off Cliff in Iraq

[dalthauser]

Apparently a U.S Marine throws a defenseless little puppy over a cliff while his friends laugh about Mar
If it weren't for someone posting it on YouTube I'd never have known about it.

It sounds like he got an administrative discharge which is unacceptable- if it's true - it should have been dishonorable - and he should have been prosecuted based on our animal cruelty laws.

Article here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/12/marine.puppy/index.html?iref=newssearch

I won't embed the Youtube video - if you want to see it you can go to Youtube and search (it's probably on the front page anyway).

P.S: If I see this guy on Larry King later I'm going to send CNN a box of rotten eggs.

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Comments

[dydan.livejournal.com]

Its no wonder that soldiers come back from combat tours a little wonky. We're raised from birth with the notion that hurting people is wrong, killing is wrong. Then you go into the armed forces where you suddenly are called to do the very things you've been told all your life are wrong. So its easier for the soldier to do his killing and maiming when he is told they arent PEOPLE he's hurting, they are commies, or gooks, or towel-heads or whatever other lovely little label the military brass thinks up to take away from the fact that these are indeed human beings.

And then when the soldiering job is done they go home and have to go back to being socially acceptable?

I just dont think a person's psyche is equipped for that. Not without some serious therapy.

I would NEVER make a good soldier.