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This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.
A Marine who was fined and demoted for urinating on
Taliban corpses in
Afghanistan in 2011 says he would do it again.
"I regret maybe any repercussions it might have had on the Marines. But do I regret doing it? Hell no," Sgt. Joseph Chamblin
told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., adding that he would do it again.
The infamous incident was videotaped and uploaded to
YouTube last year, becoming international news and raising fears of retaliation by Afghan troops against their coalition trainers.
"These were the same guys that were killing our family, killing our brothers," said
Sgt. Chamblin, who was on a mission to stop
Taliban insurgents from making roadside bombs.
One of his sniper team members,
Sgt. Mark Bradley, was killed by a buried bomb days before the incident.
"We're human," he said. "Who wouldn't if you lost your brother or mother? Wouldn't you want revenge?"
Comment: Here is the 'super top secret OMG secret of secrets' slide that will shock your state of blissful ignorance to its very core... US govt employees, avert thine eyes!
Is this a joke?!
Apparently not. Apparently it's so serious that to cast your eyes on this 'secret slide' is to risk incurring the wrath of
YahwehGodthe National Security State.It's BS of course, intended to buffer the illusion in the U.S. that state secrets exist to protect people when in reality the govt works for the corporations against the people and everything the U.S. does is pretty much transparent to the rest of the world.