The Old Media will make sure you see this story

(via Johnny Walker Red)

Al Reuters is reporting that a U.S. Marine shot a wounded Iraqi insurgent dead in a mosque in Fallujah. Upon hearing this story, my initial reaction was, I'm glad they're doing their job.

LONDON (Reuters) - A television pool report by U.S. network NBC says that a U.S. Marine shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Falluja.

The Iraqi was one of five wounded prisoners left in the mosque after Marines had fought their way in on Friday and Saturday. There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon on Monday's report.

The pool report by NBC correspondent Kevin Sites said the mosque had been used by insurgents to attack U.S. forces, who stormed it and an adjacent building, killing 10 militants and wounding the five.

"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head. The pictures are too graphic for us to broadcast," Sites said. No images of the shooting were shown in the footage provided to Reuters.

The report said the Marine, who had returned to duty after being shot in the face a day earlier, had been removed from the field and was being questioned by the U.S. military.

Sites said the shot prisoner "did not appear to be armed or threatening in any way".

The "prisoner" wasn't "threatening in any way" - except for when he was firing on our troops from the fucking mosque.

The bottom line is that these islamofascist "soldiers" had been using the mosque as a base of operations to attack our troops. What should have happened is, once the mosque was identified as an enemy base, it should have been annihilated completely - killing ALL insurgents inside. I suppose that would be considered offensive to the Religion of Peace™, though.

In the Bullpen reiterates that while the worthless U.N. demands that we operate according to the Geneva Convention, the enemy is allowed to operate in their dirty nightshirts firing RPGs at us from mosques and other "holy shrines." In order to win this battle, we have to fight on their level, which means there are no fucking rules.

I agree with Digger - at the most, this soldier should be reprimanded. Personally, I would have liked to have seen this soldier in charge at the Afghan prison camp where John Walker Lindh was rounded up.

So prepare yourselves, CNNABCNBCCBSMSNBCNPRPBS will be all over this like a hood over an Abu Ghraib prisoner.

When the Iraq invasion began and I saw that we had "embedded journalists" mixed in with our troops, I knew things weren't going to go well. It's a cliche, but war is hell and there are things that happen in war that people don't need to know about. This embedded journalist shit needs to stop.

You cannot look at what happens in a battle like the one in Fallujah through the lens of everyday American life. The two are completely unrelated and while the Old Media sits in their plush TV studios passing judgment on the men and women who make their bullshit existence possible, this is one blog where you're not find one tear shed over another dead islamofascist.

Other folks passing judgment:

• Froggy - puts the whole story in its proper perspective
• Wizbang
• Say Anything
• Ace
• Jane
• Blogs of War
• In Search of Utopia - David has put El Malo back in the puppet trunk to provide his take
• Watcher of Weasels

UPDATE:

The Jawa Report has an outstanding post pointing out how the beheadings have stopped because the terrorists are on the run, what we've found in Fallujah under terrorist rule, and how Kevin Sites (the "embedded journalist") is a traitor.