OMFG! Rick Perry said WHAT?

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5. First Reading: Slain reporter’s former colleagues rip Perry

First Reading blog AAS 1/17/12
First Reading: Slain reporter’s former colleagues rip Perry

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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 what’s despicable, cutting Danny Pearl’s 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 Pearl’s mutilated body was released soon after his death.

Soon after Perry’s comments, former Wall Street Journal reporter John Harwood wrote on Twitter: “As someone who was a friend and colleague of Danny Pearl… Perry’s reference to Danny was irrelevant and gross.”

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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.