miscreant Marine get booted

i like animals.
dogs.
tortoises.
chickens.

red-tailed boa constrictors.

and i'd be lying if i said that animals aren't suffering alongside humans in Iraq.
they are.
and if you haven't already seen the youtube video where a Marine hurls a puppy off a cliff in Iraq, thats a good thing.
its insanely disturbing.
dumbass jarhead grunt mugs for the camera, picks up puppy by the scruff of its neck, cracks a few jokes, then chucks the innocent pooch off the cliff.

wtf was this fool thinking?

a puppy?

off a cliff?

and videotape it?

and post it on youtube?

i've seen quite a few dead and dying people in my day.
its disheartening.
sad in a way. but thats War, yes?
people die.
people have their limbs torn off.
boiling hot engine oil melts faces.
sand from IEDs detaches retinas.
but this is our wager.
our toss of the coin.
and amidst the chewed up fedeyeen, eviscerated civilians, and few American causalities i happened to come in contact with during my stints in the desert, i felt especially bad when i saw a black and white dog drag its bloodied hindquarters across a date field.

a chunk of shrapnel embedded into his ass.

it yelped as it walked.

no.

not a yelp.

a cry.

and i regret very much that i never put a bullet through its head.

to end that pain.

but i didnt.

its strange.
this empathy.
im sure theres been a study conducted in berkeley.

some hippy retreads justifying peta.
but im digressing.
the marine.
the dumbass cretin.
he got kicked out.
good riddens.
heres a link to the story:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080612/NEWS01/867055405/-1/rss02