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Originally Posted by lostalex

nothing i said was "wild" or fantastical.

I agree that the marines should have followed the codes of the marines, and i especially think they shouldn't have filmed themselves acting so unprofessionally. we arn't disagreeing about that.

Wildly inaccurate though.

You said that "Umm, they've done much worse to the bodies of dead American " and "i've seen videos of them dragging dead american soldiers". I am not aware of the Taliban mutilating bodies after death.

When I was in Afghanistan - 2002-2003 (pull up a sandbag and swing that tilley) we all knew to be captured by the Taliban you would be tortured and suffer, but your body when dead would be treated fairly decently. Left where it would be found and recovered relatively quickly.

The reasons for that derive from their religious beliefs, you can do what you like to a person especially an enemy while alive within the examples set in the Hadith, but a body becomes sacrosanct even the body of infidels. Besides they like injuries and torture to be apparent on their enemy so that word of the brutality spreads terror among their enemy.