{"id":39329,"date":"2014-01-15T18:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39329"},"modified":"2014-01-15T18:19:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:19:57","slug":"marines-burning-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39329","title":{"rendered":"Marines burning corpses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard about this earlier today, but the only link was at TMZ, and screw them. But now Stars & Stripes<\/a> has picked up some of the story about photos of Marines burning corpses supposedly in Fallujah in 2004;<\/p>\n

The pictures show Marines pouring accelerant on and burning what appear to be Iraqi corpses; at least one shows a Marine looking at the camera in what could be a posed photograph.<\/p>\n

Stars and Stripes was unable to determine the Marines\u2019 intent or any other context, and will not run the photos until more can be learned.<\/p>\n

Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told Stars and Stripes that he has seen the photos, confirmed that they appear to show U.S. servicemembers, and alerted U.S. Central Command, which had not seen the photos.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating, Warren said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the media’s interest is piqued because it has some of the magic formula for reporting on the troops “Marines” and “corpses”. You have to scroll pretty far down the story to read;<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the burning, you know, it\u2019s hard to tell [whether it\u2019s a violation],\u201d Warren said. \u201cWhile we don\u2019t routinely burn human remains, there are circumstances when that might be necessary for hygiene, health \u2014 things like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so let’s all jump to conclusions and get General Amos all riled up again so he starts throwing people under the bus like he did last time.<\/p>\n

Yeah, delete those photos if you haven’t already. And for those of you over there, put your cameras away. Like I said, this is TMZ-the same folks who tried to defend Tim Poe against TSO, then stole TSO’s research and called it their “exclusive” story. If they told me water is wet, I’d go take a shower to make sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard about this earlier today, but the only link was at TMZ, and screw them. … Marines burning corpses?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}