Rep. Hunter on war crimes suspect Gallagher: I'm guilty of same bad thing'

[Liberty Belle]

Source: East County Magazine/Times of San Diego

Rep. Duncan D. Hunter told a Ramona audience Saturday that he’s guilty of the same behavior that led to Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher being charged with war crimes — posing with a dead combatant.

“Eddie did one bad thing that I’m guilty of too — taking a picture of the body and saying something stupid,” Hunter said at a border-issues forum with his father, former Rep. Duncan L. Hunter.

The younger Hunter, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, said he’s taken pictures “just like that when I was overseas” — although he didn’t text or post images to social media. “But a lot of my peers … have done the exact same thing.”

....Hunter's opponent, Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, issued this statement: "I don’t understand why Congressman Hunter decided to use this weekend to talk about taking pictures with a combatant he killed. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, let’s respect our fallen service members without politicizing a weekend meant to honor them. Freedom does not come cheaply, it imposes a heavy burden. To the servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price to protect our lives and values, thank you. Terrorists get what they deserve, a one-way ticket to hell. But we have to be better than them in the way we conduct ourselves during war. We can’t forget what separates America from them — our moral code. Let us honor the sacrifice of our fallen men and women by exemplifying their valor, values, and virtue.”

Read more: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/rep-hunter-war-crimes-suspect-gallagher-im-guilty-same-bad-thing

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Hunter, awaiting trial on federal corruption charges this fall, has abased himself even further in admitting -- on Memorial Day weekend, a time to honor fallen soldiers -- that he disrespected fallen enemy soldiers by posing in photos with their bodies.

While merely taking photos of dead bodies is not a war crime, it can be if accompanied by degrading actions.

How low can you go, taking selfies with corpses and defending a man accused of heinous war crimes?

Ammar is clearly the more honorable man, and even Republicans in our area are starting to understand that, based on comments I've seen lately.

That said, Hunter will probably be in prison before his next reelection campaign.

[rpannier]

1. I doubt he'll go to jail because il douche will pardon him

[mr_lebowski]

2. So, Duncan, did you MURDER THE PRISONER in COLD BLOOD FIRST, before taking the photo?

Is that what you're admitting to?

Because PREMEDITATED MURDER of a POW is what Gallagher is in BIG TROUBLE over, NOT posting for a photograph with a body.

But then I suppose you knew that, showing the world that your statements are just more disinformation manufactured for the slavering masses of knuckle-dragging right-wing cultists that follow Herr Trump and believe whatever propaganda he spews out on Twitter ...

You're all scum Duncan: You, Gallagher, your party, and your POTUS.

Nothing but lying, dirtbag FILTH. The lot of you.

[Billy Ray Joe Bob.]

3. Right on.

Good rant. I'm with you 100%.

[ancianita]

4. Hunter is doing cowardly 45's dirty work while he confers with dictators of N. Korea and Russia. nt

[Scarsdale]

5. To quote Agent Orange

"There are good people on both sides" The service members in Iraq and Afghanistan likely did not want to be at war anymore than most US service members do. Their "leaders" are responsible for those decisions. The service members from other countries have families that love them, too, and do not want fighting. On top of that, their countries are being destroyed. Wars solve nothing. Why can't reasonable, responsible people talk out their differences? Sanely and intelligently? While tRump and Bolton along with other (R)'s are running the show, this will not happen. The world does not need more death and destruction. Time to stop playing "macho man" with the lives of our young men and women. Do some GOOD instead of destroying others.

[enki23]

6. That's the least of the things that scumbag is accused of.

[oasis]

7. Lock him up.

[modrepub]

8. Well, Which Is It?

Do moral failings remove your right and privilege of serving in the US military or does the uniform exonerate you from any moral failing you may commit while serving?

[Roy Rolling]

9. Fuck Him

It's soldiers like this that make people hate America.

He's a disgrace to the military, and any other soldier who did this, too.

WTF is wrong with the leadership that can't weed out these war criminals in a uniform?

They don't protect us with their phony patriotism, they make America weak. And it makes sense why to takes 17 years to win over the people of Afghanistan. To them, America is just another killer army like the Taliban.

And I cringe when Americans give assholes like this hero's honor when they return home thanks to Fox News.

[CTyankee]

10. He knows damn well that this type of stuff plays well to the consistuency that loves Trump.

Sure, take a pic of yourself with a dead combatant, that's cool...

[Sapient Donkey]

11. Uhhh, isn't he a accused of a lot more than taking a selfie?

Amazing how he is willing to say he did the same things as this guy is accused of.

[Harker]

12. Posing with a dead body

is, in itself, a degrading action.

[BlueIdaho]

13. AmI supposed to feel sorry

For Drunken Hunter? Because I don’t.

[Skittles]

14. bullshit

he wasn't convicted of taking a selfie

[Jackliceista]

15. Freepers used to worship this guy

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.