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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 9:27AM
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Marines in Agfhanistan are now displaying the Nazi flag
security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/09/photo-...
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 10:20AM
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A picture of an elite Marine unit posing with a flag symbol that is similar to a Nazi "SS" logo has surfaced on the Internet.
Looks like photoshopped. I'm certainly all against US imperialism, but this is just too counterintuitive to make any sense. Why would American troops possibly do this? Show the flag of those who faught their own grandfathers? Show the flag of those who would finish off Israel as their first and foremost enemy nation? IMO, the SS and American troops are similar only in the minds of people who don't know either.
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is
that it is hard to verify their authenticity”
- Abraham Lincoln.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 10:47AM
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It seems to be real. The SS stands for "Sniper Scouts". But it is not condoned by the USMC. Or so they say. I find it hard to believe that the deployed soldiers have so much free time to surf the net and post photos on the web. "Have they got our DSL hooked up yet, so we can get this vacation war started?!"
Christianity: Seeking an END to religion, one decision at a time.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 1:07PM
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no they aren't---they didnt know what it meant, and it was taken down. It was a mistake. Get over it. The Nazi-ism from the left is what I fear...see my gulag LA thread. Now there is something to get your britches in a twist about. Ted, I see you as simply wanting your issues addressed at any cost. How is that different from any other tyrrany?
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 2:06PM
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The display of Nazi regalia by the Marines is a a big FUBAR. The Corps should make it clear to their personnel that this is unacceptable. The United States Army and Navy spent hundreds of thousands of lives to extinguish the malignacy of Naziism.
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary.
For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas
If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 3:17PM
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no they aren't---they didnt know what it meant, and it was taken down. It was a mistake. Get over it. The Nazi-ism from the left is what I fear...see my gulag LA thread. Now there is something to get your britches in a twist about.
Ted, I see you as simply wanting your issues addressed at any cost. How is that different from any other tyrrany?
I realise that this will be entering into the "Rush didn't tell me, so it's not true." Wingo-world; but Nazism was a right-wing, reactionary, ultraconservative, nationalist movement. Remember: What you heard from the Faux Gauleiters, 'tain't always true. "We had to destroy Iraq to save it." "Peace through holy bombs." "We have always been at war with Eastasia." (etc.)
A conservative is someone who believes that firefighters, teachers, and police officers are overpaid.
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Republicans experience suffering the way they experience all their virtues, i.e. vicariously.
According to "just war" standards of Christian theology, if Saddam Hussein killed 30,000 Iraqis, and the Iraq War killed 120,00, how was the War "just"?
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 4:24PM
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Rush who? As for the rest, not relevant
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 8:59PM
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Rush who?
As for the rest, not relevant
Rush Limbaugh, Kassandra, the dittohead deity.
Limbaugh locuta, causa finita.
For those who have faith, no explanation is neccessary.
For those who have no faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas
If one turns his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9
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4 months ago ::
Feb 10, 2012 - 9:13PM
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Beliefnet Community Moderator ~ Peace Love Stardove It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace. -Shenandoah proverb 
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4 months ago ::
Feb 11, 2012 - 12:50AM
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It is quite possible that those marines, probably younger than 30...all of them...had no idea that was a German SS symbol. World war 2 history to include Geman symbols isn't exactly well taught in our schools after all. People my age (68) know because it was taught when I went to school. Anyway, all they have to say is that they just thought it was a 'neat' banner that they could use to show they were scout snipers, and had no idea it was a Nazi thing, and that is that. In fact, that pretty much is 'that' now. In my ranger company in Vietnam we had a 'Gook of the month Club'. Whomever had the most confirmed kills in a month got a 3 day pass to Saigon for some R & R...Rest and Recreation. We called it I & I, for Intoxication and Intercourse. I won twice! This could never be done today...a combination of political correct crap in the army, and the ease of the media finding out about it would make it impossible. By the time I was an officer and became a company commander we were no longer openly calling the enemy 'names'...among ourselves of course...same thing today...but no longer did we do whatevers of the month stuff. I do not feel the slightest bit of guilt about it. I am not the least bit sorry we did it. I'm glad I won. As a then single Staff Sergeant I thoroughly enjoyed the I & I. In other words, I can and do easily empathyze with those marines! My lieutenant colonel US Army (retired) wife does also. My honorably discharged former US Army staff Sergeant son does. I expect lots of civilians do not. Words cannot express how much I do NOT give a damn about that! Ken
Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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