Sunday, January 15, 2012

Before Afghanistan, Who Was The Last U.S. Soldier Who Urinted On The Enemy


General Patton urinates into the Rhine river in Germany

Men At War -- Weekly Standard

We’ll stipulate that of course the Marines who urinated on the bodies of dead Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last year should be appropriately disciplined, assuming things are as they appear in the video.

ut it’s also worth noting that pissing has a distinguished place in American military history. Most famously, General George S. Patton relieved himself in the Rhine on March 24, 1945—and made sure he was photographed doing so. Patton later recalled: “I drove to the Rhine River and went across on the pontoon bridge. I stopped in the middle to take a piss and then picked up some dirt on the far side in emulation of William the Conqueror.”

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My Comment: When Patton did it, America cheered. Four Marines do it in Afghanistan .... the political masters have a heart attack.

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