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Related: About this forumOMFG! Rick Perry said WHAT?
Rick Perry Defends Marines Who Urinated On Corpses http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/rick-perry-marines_n_1207350.html
"Obviously, 18-, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often. And that's what's occurred here," Perry told CNN's "State of the Union."
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So why the hell to we give them guns, live ammunition, and send them to other countries to blow stuff up and kill people??????
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OMFG! Rick Perry said WHAT? (Original Post)
ashling
Jan 2012
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"OMFG! Rick Perry said WHAT?" is a daily feature for Texas local news broadcasts. n/t
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#3
barbtries
(28,810 posts)1. what a logical question.
wish someone would ask Perry that.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. What do you expect from Speaker-To-Mannequins?
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)3. "OMFG! Rick Perry said WHAT?" is a daily feature for Texas local news broadcasts. n/t
sonias
(18,063 posts)4. Awesome!
Hopefully a whole new generation of Texas voters will get a bit wiser!
sonias
(18,063 posts)5. First Reading: Slain reporter’s former colleagues rip Perry
First Reading blog AAS 1/17/12
First Reading: Slain reporters former colleagues rip Perry
(snip)
Without provocation, Gov. Rick Perry repeated his assertion that the Marines who urinated on the dead bodies of members of the Taliban made a mistake and should be punished, but that the Obama administration had shown a disdain for the military by overreacting to the controversy. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, for example, has called the footage utterly dispicable.
Let me tell you whats despicable, cutting Danny Pearls head off, Perry said during the debate.
Daniel Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 and beheaded. A video of Pearls mutilated body was released soon after his death.
Soon after Perrys comments, former Wall Street Journal reporter John Harwood wrote on Twitter: As someone who was a friend and colleague of Danny Pearl Perrys reference to Danny was irrelevant and gross.
(snip)
In addition, Politico reports that Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel wrote, Danny Pearl, of blessed memory, would have condemned US soldiers urinating on corpses (esp on camera).
First Reading: Slain reporters former colleagues rip Perry
(snip)
Without provocation, Gov. Rick Perry repeated his assertion that the Marines who urinated on the dead bodies of members of the Taliban made a mistake and should be punished, but that the Obama administration had shown a disdain for the military by overreacting to the controversy. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, for example, has called the footage utterly dispicable.
Let me tell you whats despicable, cutting Danny Pearls head off, Perry said during the debate.
Daniel Pearl was a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 and beheaded. A video of Pearls mutilated body was released soon after his death.
Soon after Perrys comments, former Wall Street Journal reporter John Harwood wrote on Twitter: As someone who was a friend and colleague of Danny Pearl Perrys reference to Danny was irrelevant and gross.
(snip)
In addition, Politico reports that Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel wrote, Danny Pearl, of blessed memory, would have condemned US soldiers urinating on corpses (esp on camera).
Perry is the despicable one trying to make political points on Pearl's tragic death and defending the indefensible. Those soldiers should know better and should be trained better.
TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)6. I just love Perry's comments.
Open mouth, insert BOTH feet.
I'm sure the president of Texas A&M is so proud.