BackFire
Blood. It's nature's lube
Originally posted by PVS
"A Pentagon spokesman described the incident as "repugnant" and said that the army was launching a criminal investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights."thats not liberal spin, thats the pentagon
and, just the way it is, again:
"Muslim's traditionally bury their dead, and as one Kabul cleric Mohammed Omar told newsmen, "the burning of these bodies is an offense against Muslim's everywhere. Bodies are burned only in Hell."
dont shoot the messenger
That's, of course, merely a possibility, not "the way it is". They're launching an investigation to make sure no intentional desecration or mockery of the Muslim belief took place. An investigation is nothing more than that, an investigation. That second part is just someone's opinion on the matter. Some Muslim's were offended by the act, not denying that, what I'm denying is the intention of offense on the part of these soldiers.
According to the soldiers, who as of now, have the most validity and credibility in the matter seeing as they were actually there, said it was done because it had to be done in order to halt any possible disease and discomfort, not just to piss off Muslim's. Their intentions seemed decent enough, just more stupid people getting offended over something based on assumption of the worst or simple hearsay.
People are just jumping to idiotic and illogically hasty conclusions that this act was some sort of intentional attack against Muslim's and their beliefs, which, according to the soldiers, is simply untrue.
As I said, the actions (the mocking of the taliban, not the actual burnings, which I think is perfectly reasonable considering the circumstances they were in) were sloppy and reckless, but that has nothing to do with the intentions of the soldiers, just the way they handled the situation.