Wasn't the "honorable" John Kerry lauded after he
chased down a teenager and shot him in the back?

Speaking of bullshit, you might try reading your own
email, Wirt.

Ernie

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Veterans Day or Armistice Day


Greg writes:

> Debate all you want to about whether the US should be in Iraq, but 
> leave this honorable young Marine out of it.

And this is the point where the bullshit really rises. There was nothing
honorable at all about what the Marine did. He committed nothing less
than murder. While it may be the ultimate fiction that war can be
conducted under an internationally sanctioned set of rules, nevertheless
under the existing rules, he committed a war crime and should be fully
prosecuted for it, perhaps spending a significant portion of his life in
prison as a result.

The distance between his actions and those of the American soldiers at
My Lai is tissue thin, and none of it comes close to being honorable.

Wirt Atmar

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