I agree, so long as it turns out that the wounded insurgent was actually playing dead. It's one thing if he's just lying there hands in plain view (even though he could still be on a bomb of some sort) and another thing entirely if he is trying to actively deceive the marines. I'd have shot him without batting an eye in the second case if I were the marine.

Ask any RLI member what they did to Terrs. Shoot first. Sorry that is life in the fast lane.

Kevin Stites (name is spelled wrong I guess) wrote an open letter to the troops of 3/1 Marines (the units the shooter is from and he was embedded with) about why he filmed the incident. I've read the full text of that letter in the Guardian and this NBC man is NOT some kind of Michael Moore prat out to 'get' or expose the coaltion men as trigger happy dopes. He has been shocked and dismayed at being portrayed as an anti-war activist. Furthermore, he has covered wars for 5 years and is not some ignorant twit who made a snap judgment about the event without contextual understanding. I'm sure you all can get the reporter's name correctly and track down that letter on the web. As for the Marine, he needs a chance to defend himself in court. I do not wish to say anything against him even though people around me have reacted with distaste at the shooting of an apparently unarmed man.

the pentagon should definetely do an investigation but from what i've seen he looks like he hasn't done anything wrong. im gonna give him the benefit of the doubt, especially because of what happened the day before. the other guy in the video said that he was wounded, thats what the terrorist who was shot should have said if he wasn't up to anything.

You people arent there..........no1.....if that fu**er even twitches hes gonna be killed because of our experience with them.Its better them than ours.

I want the names of the board who convicts any US soldier of murder?WE arent them but .......f**k them.

We do try the right thing but these kids are in a situation when they dont know friend from foe.....................if my life was on the line 24/7 id be trigger happy too.these people need all the support they can get......... the liberals

these warriors are asked the impossible.........

not to defeat an enemy but to rebuild an enemy.you know fthat i say we hide behind our oceans and if attacked destroy it.These wtos say we need it,bs,everything that we need is here.Imagine produycing tvs just here for our market?imagine producing just cars here for our market?bs we need global trade,only the rich need it .

I agree. nothing would have been said if it werent filmed. There shouldnt be a big stink even though it was filmed. We nvr should have gone into Iraq and these guys in the white house got it all wrong but I dont care what the military kills as long as they get home alive because every Iraqi isnt worth one american life.