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The US military is now admitting that the reports of soldiers burning two dead Taliban bodies in Afghanistan are true. The four US servicemen face disciplinary action but will not be charged because they “were burning the bodies for hygienic reasons.” Ya right! How does the military explain the “American soldiers setting fire to the bodies and then boasting about the act on loudspeakers to taunt insurgents suspected to be hiding in a nearby village?”

If it was done for hygienic reasons and if the soldiers knew very well the Geneva conventions prohibit burning bodies, then there would not be any reason for the loudspeakers. Was the act committed with full knowledge of Islam's ban on cremation and the desecration it implies? Could it have been done ,deliberately, to incite the enemy? Based upon their recent coverups, the military has a lot of skeptics to convince.

Americans are supposed to conduct themselves to a higher – not lower moral standard.
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