Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses

Originally posted by long pig

Taliban used terrorist tactics and didn't wear uniforms to distinguish themselves from the civilians, so they don't deserve any rights.

So, torturing/burning them is fine with me.

Descriptions of militia or volunteer corps "having a fixed distinctive sign recognisable at a distance" seems quaint after the war in Afghanistan, where daisy cutter fuel air bombs were dropped from a great height on a terrorist group's mountain hideout............wow what good eyesight they had !

Anyway its bullshit. If they dont have any insignias the GC statews that they should be treated as POW under the GC until proven by a Tribunal.

But then again, its difficult to get that to be understood by Americans.

Never said it was morally right, just saying why I would consider it legal.
Even if it weren't, I wouldn't care.

Who cares about the Muslim plight? They brought it on themselves.

But then again, its difficult to get that to be understood by Americans.

Originally posted by GCG
But then again, its difficult to get that to be understood by Americans.

Originally posted by long pig
Who cares about the Muslim plight? They brought it on themselves.

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You really got me there.

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Shouldn't you have grown out of this "Anti-American" phase by now?

Come on guys, the only reason you clean out the refridgerator is because that un-eaten apple in the crisper drawer has stared to rot and stink! Why should our international prisons be any different? Just thank god for the crisper drawer! God is good, god is relevant! Jesus loves me, this I know....

Eh....do people truly care about this?

🤨...erm.wtf ?

omg tehy lied

You know, that's what a lot of people seem to think, despite there being no proof of evidence to support it.

The locals refused to bury the dead, so the soldiers burned them. How is that worse than letting corpses rot in the heat?

I think the religion here is used for everything - and im not the biggest fan of some American behaviour displayed by the soldiers, but i seriously do not see anything too terrible about what has been done.

It wsant a mockery - the locals refused to bury the bodies. Im sorry to sound harsh, but it is not American soldiers responsibility to bury the bodies.

What the reason might be for burning those corpses it was a bad idea period.

Why was it a bad idea?

I don't understand all this sympathy towards the enemy. How can you feel sorry for the person who is trying to kill you?

I haven't read through this whole thread...so don't know if has been brought up or not....but just leaving corpse around will bring much disease...you gotta do something with them, and if people won't bury then well.........

Is the smell of burnt flesh and molten fat really that enticing either though? I highly doubt they managed to reduce the bodies to ash so they'd have to bury the remains regardless. The logical thing to do would be to bury the bodies in the first place.

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Is the smell of burnt flesh and molten fat really that enticing either though? I highly doubt they managed to reduce the bodies to ash so they'd have to bury the remains regardless. The logical thing to do would be to bury the bodies in the first place.

Hmmmmm...yeah it would smell really bad......guess just dig a huge hole....like WWII....

I don't know...I'm leaving now.... 😄

Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Is the smell of burnt flesh and molten fat really that enticing either though? I highly doubt they managed to reduce the bodies to ash so they'd have to bury the remains regardless. The logical thing to do would be to bury the bodies in the first place.

If the natives refused to bury them, why is it soldiers responsibility to do so. As already mentioned, corpses on such a high temperature should be burned because they can bring so much disease, no?

The bodies had been there for a day. Are you suggesting the bodies carried a infectious disease contagions within a day capable of spreading by air transmission - because that seems unlikely - the smell is what would likely have provoked the burning. In which case you are left with the smell of burnt corpses, which still have to be disposed of anyway - in which case there are few options other than burying the remains. So burying the bodies in the first place would have been the logical thing to do.

And that should be soldier's responsibility, why?

Actually many ancients used to burn their dead - because it was far better that way - it is only with the mergance of judaism, christianity and islam that burning has somehow became wrong.

They are dead - they wont know anyway.

Besides, if you are a soldier whos there fighting, would you stand on a 90 degree sun digging two graves?
Yes, great idea!

Uh... I never said they had a responsibility to bury them or that I cared about the bodies. Just that it would be the logical thing to do - considering it requires upwards of 700 degrees Celcius to actually cremate a body and I doubt that they managed to reach that simply by setting the corpses alight - so they'd still have to dispose of the remains afterwards - in all likelihood by burial.