U.S. Military Encourages Blood Lust

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Faced with dwindling numbers of recruits, the Pentagon made the canny decision to maximize the fighting effectiveness of troops by encouraging blood lust - the less restrained, the better. For example, when Marine Lt. Ilario Pantano wantonly killed two unarmed prisoners, he was in such a heat that he emptied his pistol, reloaded it, and emptied his pistol a second time. He then left a note on the corpses, "No better friend; no worse enemy."

Pantano was court-martialed for this double homicide because there was zero justification for it. However, the Marines and their admirers throughout the United States rallied behind this murderer because after all, he was in a killing heat at the time. Pantano's case became a cause celebre, and his acquittal was hailed as the triumph of justice. Pantano retired from the Marine Corps and became something of a celebrity in the area around Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He is now running for Congress on what might be called a blood lust platform.

http://www.pantanoforcongress.com/

We don't see the Pentagon memos discussing the decision to encourage blood lust, but we certainly see the effects. Crimes against civilians - especially homicides - are routinely covered up. The recently-revealed Wikileaks video allows us access to the mentality of the murderer. These guys clearly enjoy what they're doing; in fact the tape shows one trigger-happy gunner pleading for permission to do some more killing.

We are allowing homicide as a deliberate policy. This is the face we show to the world. The Marines at Falluja or at Haditha were not operating in our interest at all. If they accomplish anything, it's to encourage an extreme reaction against a people that allows, even encourages latter-day My Lai massacres. We're making this choice today when we refuse to prosecute murderers.

[Grand Taurean]

1. Chances are this coward will win.

[SoDesuKa]

4. Support from Michele Malkin and . . . Jon Stewart?

I don't know why Jon Stewart gave a creampuff interview with Ilario the Madman Pantano. It's possible that Stewart didn't know who he was, but he seems to have bought Pantano's line of shit about the ambiguity of combat. Any fool knows not to shoot unarmed prisoners who are in your custody. However, Madman Pantano has made a political career based on doing exactly that.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-10-2006/ilario-pantano

Here's the report from the New York Times detailing Pantano's actions as judge and jury regarding the innocence of Iraqis that he "knew" were bad guys:

Sergeant Coburn gave the most detailed testimony to date about what happened that April day after his platoon stopped a car leaving what was believed to be an insurgent hideout.

He told a hearing officer that Lieutenant Pantano was angered when he learned that intelligence officers had decided not to detain Mr. Kareem and Mr. Hanjil.

''These two were going to be let go because there was no proof they had anything to do with the house,'' Sergeant Coburn testified, adding that the lieutenant ''looked a little upset that these guys were going to get off.''

He said Lieutenant Pantano was ''mumbling to himself'' and told the two Iraqis to go back and search their own vehicle, though it had already been twice searched by a Navy corpsman, George Gobles.

Lieutenant Pantano ordered that the detainees' plastic handcuffs be cut off, the sergeant testified, and that the lieutenant then ordered him and Corpsman Gobles to take positions facing away from the car.

The two detainees, Sergeant Coburn said, were on their knees searching the inside of their car when staccato bursts of gunfire caused him to turn around, and he saw Lieutenant Pantano firing at the detainees.

"He was still firing,'' the sergeant said. ''I was trying to figure out when he was going to stop.''

Corpsman Gobles, who testified earlier in the day, gave a similar account, but also said Lieutenant Pantano had told the two men to ''stop'' in Arabic and English.

''And I heard shots fired,'' Corpsman Gobles said, testifying, as did Sergeant Coburn, that the men were shot in the back.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDC1031F93BA15757C0A9639C8B63

[Echo In Light]

2. .

[Junkdrawer]

3. That guy is scary...and he's being groomed....Don't be surprised...

if he's a Senator or higher by 2016....