To Andy,
the ROE and the Rules of Land Warfare dictate that when an opponent is out of the fight he is to be given medical aid and taken prisoner. He is to be shot in the head. That might be the way it is in movies (and reality) but, it's not supposed to happen. That young marine will one day have nightmares about what he did that day. Inside a holy Iraqi mosque, to a wounded man. Gutless.

Hey Andy, do us a favor and make up your mind. The U.S. occupation is totally illegal, the whole world knows this, every single time a U.S. soldier kills someone over there for any reason, they commit another murder, this incident being merely a baldly indefensible example, and yet here you are popping open canned apologetics in their defense AND PRETENDING TO BE A PACIFIST!! What a total fuckhead!

"neat!"

I am a United States Marine preparing to deploy to Iraq within the next month. I've been deployed before and know what it's like. I understand what these Marines are experiencing in Iraq now. I would have responded the exact same way this Marine did here. You don't know what happens over there. You are not present when gun fights are raging on. You have no room to speak.

SOME TIMES YOU CAN NOT EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE SCARED!!! US SOLDIER

TO ROE, YEAH HE WILL HAVE NIGHMARES BUT HAVE YOU BEEN IN A SITUATION WERE IT IS YOUR LIFE OR HIS? THE MARINE WAS SCARED, TRY FIGHTING WITH PEOPLE THAT WANT TO KILL YOU, THEN SEE ONE AND NOT KNOW IF HE HAS A WEAPON OR AN IED. SHIT HAPPENS, UNTILL YOU WALK A MILE IN OUR SHOES TRY NOT TO BE SOO HARD ON US. PLEASE REMEMBER WE(soldiers, and marines) DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE WETHER OR NOT WE FIGHT.

IF U HAVE NOT BEEN SHOT AT

If you say you would have done the same then it means you are weak like him. Like the Muslims say; the man that is able to hold his hand from violence is truly stronger than the man who bests someone in combat.

If it were me I would have given him quarter; fed him as well as I ate; clothed him as well as I was clothed; and I would ask him not to do anything that I myself was not willing to do as well. I would set him free if he repented and we could part as friends, or until his family/government paid his ransom (to recompense for the destruction of the war). Certainly this is better than shooting them in the head.