US veteran who killed unarmed Iraqis wins Tea Party support

[Barack_America]

US veteran who killed unarmed Iraqis wins Tea Party support

The basic facts are undisputed: on 15 April 2004 Ilario Pantano, then a second lieutenant with the US marines, stopped and detained two Iraqi men in a car near Falluja. The Iraqis were unarmed and the car found to be empty of weapons.

Pantano ordered the two men to search the car for a second time and then, with no other US soldiers in view, unloaded a magazine of his M16A4 automatic rifle into them, before reloading and blasting a second magazine at them – some 60 rounds in total.

Over the corpses, he left a placard inscribed with the marine motto: "No better friend, No worse enemy."

Six years later Pantano is on the verge of a stunning electoral victory that could send him to the US Congress in Washington. He is standing as Republican candidate in North Carolina's 7th congressional district, which was last represented by his party in 1871...

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/us-veteran-killed-iraqis-tea-party


Murderers, racists, witches, bigots, porn fanatics and dolts...the 2010 class of Tea Party Republican candidates.

[VioletLake]

1. They are Republican Party candidates. nt

[Barack_America]

3. Good point.

[hedgehog]

2. I was with some people Saturday night who are fairly bright

and rather successful. Over the course of a casual conversation, it became clear that these people are still focused on 9/11 and they believe that Iraq was behind it.

I'm beginning to believe that one factor in the invasion of Iraq was that after the towers fell, some people were looking for vengeance. Knowing that the 19 hijackers were dead, or arresting Osama and bringing him to trial was never going to be enough. A larger enemy had to be found and destroyed. Saddam and Iraq made a convenient stand-in. Since "they" had attacked us, "they " deserved anything and everything we did in response.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Their focus belies their brightness nt

[Barack_America]

6. Slash taxes and kill Muslims, the modern Republican party platform.

So in-keeping with the ideals our Founding Fathers set forth.

:sarcasm:

[47of74]

4. This man is a disgrace

[atreides1]

7. Then So is The USMC

Because they let him walk...his disgrace is theirs also.

[Barack_America]

8. From the article...

"But the officer presiding over the hearing recommended that Pantano be given non-judicial punishment for having displayed "extremely poor judgment", adding that by desecrating the Iraqi's bodies with his placard he had brought disgrace to the armed forces..."

Remember this guy was smart enough to carry out the crime when no one else was around, which of course begs the question, why was no one else around?