Marine kills injured Afghan.

[Geckos48]

Just think, we'd be calling these fellas Heroes had they not been caught.

Makes my blood run cold.
www.itv.com/news/2013-11-07/court-marshall-releases-recording-of-marines-killing-afghan/

So disappointed in our armed forces. Once again.

Have you actually read the articles?

A number of the accused said things along the lines of 'they deserve nothing less'. And similar.

I said there was no proof that the whole of the armed forces were 'good men and women'. Not that they were all bad, try to keep up.

A number of the accused

There were 3, originally 5 two had the charges dropped. FFS talk about over dramatisation!

"A number of the accused" what - several of all three of them do you mean?

So yes, clearly a shining example that this is what the majority of the armed forces think...

The problem is the gleeful attitude radiating through your threads OP. We can all set our watches by your predictability.

You feed off of these events. You yourself are representative of a profession that has allowed the deaths of many children you say you are there to protect. And there are reasons both valid and less so for why this happens time and time again.

Yet none of us takes such a gleeful attitude towards these tragedies and acts of negligence as you do towards those admittedly wicked members of the armed forces. You enjoy the stirring of dissent, you feed off it whilst hiding behind an incredibly dumb grasp of history.

Please MNers, don't feed. I am pissed off with myself for responding really.

LtEve - I understand how you want to defend your profession and colleagues, but might I suggest you do what the rest of us should do and hide this thread? On this weekend (when I remember the bravery of my Grandfather who was in the merchant navy and who helped feed not only the forces but thousands of Greek islanders who were starving) the OP's timing shows a total lack of empathy towards the family members who are grieving and worrying. Your time is more valuable than this thread, on this weekend.

Regardless of what your views are OP, let it alone this weekend and delete this thread. Come back another time. Otherwise you have shown yourself to have no empathy whilst accusing everybody else of having no empathy towards those civilians harmed by the wars in the Middle east. It goes both ways.

My DH is in the RN, my DBIL is in the Army, my DB and DSIL are in the RAF, your attitude horrifies me. How dare you condemn all of them for the actions of a tiny minority.
You have no idea, have a

Over 100 NATO soldiers have been killed by afghan police or soldiers they were training since 2007. These murderers often escape any form of justice, some are killed admittedly when the NATO soldiers have the chance to fire back.

But often they are 'allowed' to escape, we have a culture in our armed forces that you will not get away with this. And hence 1 marine will now begin a life imprisonment sentence.

What is your point Gecko? Seriously what is your ducking point?!

Seriously I have to hide this now I am so fucking angry!

Again, how many afghans have been killed in this conflict? Does anyone even know? Or were they left rotting in fields like this man? Picked up by the people we say we are supporting to be buried.

Fearful of what? Because one marine killed an Afghan insurgent and two lied! you are scared of my DH who is fixing a plane?

Get a grip, woman!

Mig, you are right, thank you. The other wonderful, insightful, decent and true posters on this thread are the ones to listen to. Not her.

Fearful of the vengeance reeked on our country and my family because of the actions abroad.

I have not planned anything, I have started a thread in the news section about... Well the news!

Geckos what do you think would have happened if a Marine had been lying there injured and 3 Afghan Insurgents had come across him?

I am not afghan. My issue with these 'men' is that they were acting on behalf of my country. Something that leaves an awful taste in my mouth.

I'm sure I would say they deserve nothing less if I had seem my friends and colleagues brutalised and cut down by the very people I was sent there to help.

The thing with issues like this which fuckwits tend not to understand is the psychological impact of war and what the experience and pressure can do to you.

Your posts totally lack insight from any perspective and just make you sound like a complete raving loon.

I'm not Afghan either. But if they had come across a British soldier I would imagine they wouldn't have hesitated before they killed him. I doubt they would have been tried and the one who fired the gun would probably not be looking at life in prison.

He did wrong, it is vile what he did. Not one person has defended him, but you can not keep branding every single member of the Armed Forces with the same brush. It just makes you look incredibly ignorant and uneducated, tbh!

The other thing is, I think that you posting these extreme, ignorant views week in and week out is leaving the site as a sitting target for another invasion of trolls from "that place". If it does happen, don't bleat and moan about it!

Geckos48, why don't you pop your little life in mortal danger day in and day out. You might be qualified to start an antagonist thread then.

I'm really hoping you aren't British. I don't want you speaking on behalf of my country. Or sharing my national flag.

Here have a

I feel you need several.

I take it the OP will be marching past the Remembrance Day commemorations with a banner laying out her objections tomorrow. Or engaging members of the AF in a discussion about her views? Or debating with the poppy sellers inside Waitrose?

Nope? Thought not.

Have a whole fucking packet . Empathy goes both ways you know and if you cannot learn that then leave your profession. I don't want you in charge of vulnerable people-some of whom may be ex armed forces in the future.