American Troops "Descecrate" Two Taliban Bodies By Burning Them

They say the bodies had begun to decompose and burning them was the most hygenic manner of disposal.

Apparently, though, they used the opportunity for some psyops:

Footage showed two US soldiers reading two messages from a notebook that they said had earlier been broadcast. "Attention Taliban you are cowardly dogs," read the first soldier, identified as psyops specialist Sargeant Jim Baker.

"You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burnt. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be."

The other unidentified soldier read a second message, part of which said: "You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Talibs but you are a disgrace to the Muslim religion, and you bring shame upon your family. Come and fight like men instead of the cowardly dogs you are."

That bit is from Al Jazeera, which Bareknuckle Politics links, but I won't.

Because Bush is overspending and nominated a lawyer I don't like for the Supreme Court, I will seize on this to break with Bush. I cannot tell you how filled with "heart-ache" I am at this gob-smackingly vile action.

I call for a full investigation, a Congressional Amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill stating clearly that rotting Taliban bodies will not be burned, but lovingly buried in full accordance with Muslim funerary rituals, and for Senator Wayne Allard to resign.

Why Wayne Allard? I don't know. I just get a bad vibe off him. He seems like the kind of guy who'd act like your "best friend" and then, when you're trying to pick up a chick, start undermining you by saying things like "Oh, he's an absolute prince to all his dozens illegitimate children. He lovingly calls them his 'Li'l Bastards.'"

Absolutely sickening and disgusting, and I expect -- nay, demand -- that the MSM covers this wall-to-wall for the next three weeks. Or at least until there's another hurricane they can pin on Karl Rove.

posted by Ace at 10:59 AM

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