Marine Throws Puppy Off Cliff in Iraq
Jun. 13th, 2008 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dalthauserApparently 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.
mom
Date: 2008-06-14 12:20 am (UTC)this is what he said:
The dogs and cats in iraq carry a desiese that is kinda like lepracy, and caues your skin to basicly kinda fall off. and so when dogs and cats come on to the base or around it they have to shoot it and burn it (or get the body as far away as possible). i guess they tried explaining it but no one really listend, he really got defenceve when i asked him about it. i wasnt sure if he was telling the truth so i asked my other friend and he told me the same thing. soooo i know its really messed up and stuff, and i did feel REALLY bad about it, but if it does have the desiese like he said then yeah.. but they should have killed the puppy before throwing it off the cliff.
FROM MOM :-)
Date: 2008-06-14 01:31 am (UTC)And yes - they should have humanly killed it first. And then burned it if they were really concerned about disease.
It's the first I've ever heard of dogs/cats over there carrying a disease as seriuos as leprosy that can be caught by humans. You'd think that would definately have made the news.