The U.S. Marine Corps is launching an investigation into a video that recently surfaced online showing what appears to be several Marines in uniform urinating on corpses.

The video, which started Wednesday morning making the rounds on the Web, shows four men in full Marine combat gear standing over the bodies of what appear to be dead Taliban fighters. They look around before proceeding to urinate over the corpses. One of the men can be heard saying, “Have a great day, buddy.”

According to TMZ, the unnamed person responsible for posting the video included a caption reading, "scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans," though it wasn't immediately clear if any of that information was accurate.

The Marine Corps issued a statement immediately after learning of the video, saying a full investigation is under way.

“While we have not yet verified the origin or authenticity of this video, the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps,” the statement read.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/11/video-marines-urinating-on-dead-sparks-investigation/#ixzz1jCQ8L9MA

I don't see the problem with this, they are just bathing he body in according to Islamic Burial Traditions.

You'll get some tree-huggers crying foul, but maybe those poor Taliban were on fire though, nevertheless, they are with their virgins now anyhow. The same ones that sympathetic would be pissing in their pants with live rounds whizzing by their heads. Marines aren't exactly choir boys people.

I am guessing it did not piss them off
get it???/
piss them off

Waterboarding for the dead?

When it pertains to terrorists we've all said piss on em at some point, well the USMC did just that!

I've never had to go to war so I have no idea what one would need to do to mentally survive that kind of situation. Or what happens to their thinking while they are over there. So I'm not judging something I know nothing about.

But, I don't think this is okay to do and I certainly wouldn't be cheering them on.

Hope we see a vid soon with the situations reversed !

you should be ashamed of yourself.

I'm a Marine, Viet Nam vet.... this $hit happens on both sides....war is H3LL, and it is a mind set you must adapt from when returning.

It is usually not "shared" when it is filmed or photographed, but this is the information age with youtube, facebook and twitter.... someone wasn't thinking....

That's why I cannot judge these men as "bad". But it is upsetting to see.

ding ding ding we have a weiner!

See this is why we need our troops home,cause before you know they'll be dropping Cleveland Steamrollers on the dead terrorist chest.

You Sojourning_Soul are one decent honest human being and you have been there and done it.

Regards and Respect

drinker: You're great, sir! As my brother and teacher Yeshua said, love thy enemy.

Hmmm...I wonder if the chicken-hawks would feel the same giddiness if they got to witness this happening to someone who had died next to them while fighting off invaders from some imperialist nation-state.

That's what I was going to say as well.

A real man will be strong and do what he has to do. But a real man is not without compassion either. And I am not talking about those soldiers. I am talking about the people posting in this thread.

My guess is if those who were not soldiers served and saw this happening they have the same morbid sense of humor. I worked for DOC and also the county hospital in both the pysch ward and the ER and have seen some gruesome things, I had a ****ed up sense of humor to begin with so it didn't bother but watching the noob doctors and nurses next to the veteran doctors you could really see how stressful situations harden people.

Thank you all.... some comments on war disgust me, most definately when they come from someone without a clue. There are too many, who have given NOTHING, or have nothing to give, that think they have a right to commit or obligate others to satisfy their own egotistical self gratification...

WAR IS HELL! If you want to talk it, WALK IT!

The ubiquity of digicams has started a new chapter in the long and slow evolution of our culture.

yes I can hear carly simon singing - we have no secrets


I do not applaud the desecration but I understand