Due to the time it takes to write a post, you can never say with absolute certainty that you’re going to get “the latest” al-Reuters smear but this one is close enough from Reuters Iraqi Bureau Chief Alistair MacDonald:

TRAINED KILLERS

And it is not that Marines like those under suspicion at Haditha do not like fighting. They are trained to kill and, usually within the bounds of discipline, seem to relish combat.

“C’mon captain, Kilo’s getting all my kills!” a Reuters reporter heard one lament to his commander in Karabila last year as another unit stormed house-to-house in what an officer described with relish as “old school, door-to-door fighting.”

Says an unnamed Reuters reporter about what an unnamed Marine said.

Marines take a perverse pride in a sense of themselves as the Army’s poor relation in terms of budget, equipment and manpower. Many exude a bravado about taking greater risks than an Army with whom inter-service rivalry borders on hostility.
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The martial spirit is instilled from the top down — one colonel told men before battle in Karabila: “There’s a lot of knuckleheads here who have to get dead. I’m going to help them.”

Indeed for many Marines, who love their guns, what they hate most about the war in Iraq is not fighting — and especially not being able to fight back when their friends are killed.

Somebody grab a leash before these kill crazies rampage through the nursery school!

“Why won’t he come out and fight?” asked another as the squad chafed under their sergeant’s discipline and his demands they treat Iraqis whose homes they were searching with respect.
“… Iraqis, they’re so … ungrateful,” one young Marine said, peppering his speech with expletives. “I … hate them.”

Another man snapped: “He killed my best friend,” he yelled. “It’s not fair. I’m not playing this game any more.” The Marine opened fire. Everyone froze. The dog that was his target lived.

No one died that day. The bonding of men at war is vital to any army and Marines place great stress on it. But their commander General Michael Hagee was recently in Iraq to remind them to keep emotions in check as Iraq continues to test the limits of the U.S. military.

“We use lethal force only when justified,” Hagee said.

“This is the American way of war.”

MacDonald is quite intuitive for as many unnamed sources as he uses. “The American way of war” gets a creative treatment by the Reuters’ Bureau Chief as an undisciplined group of borderline mutinous dog killers who can’t wait to kill some innocent, ungrateful Iraqis.

Small wonder with as many of MacDonald’s “reporters” getting confused with the terrorists themselves that this organization is rotting from the top down.

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