Urinating on Taliban??

Perry: W.H. has 'disdain for military'

January 15th, 2012  CNN State of the Union with Candy Crowley 

Recently, there was a video released showing a group of Marines urinating on dead bodies, who are thought to be of the Taliban. This video has been very controversial and Obama's administration handled the situation and punished those Marines. Candy Crowley sat down with Rick Perry and asked him what his thoughts are on the whole situation.

She asked him, "If you were President, Perry, what would you do about that?" He understands that 19-18 year old kids make stupid mistakes. He says that similar things like this has happened many times, especially in times of war. His example, there is a picture of General Patton urinating in the Rhine River in Germany (World War II).

Candy responds by saying that this isn't similar. The picture of Patton, was before youtube and other social media. This could hurt the United States and could give off a bad impression of Americans not respecting religion and other parts of the world. She believes that no matter what age they are, is this tolerable?

He believes that though these kids made a mistake, calling it a criminal act, is over-the-top. He says that they should be punished by going after them as a criminal is a bad call in the Obama's administration.

This video was before Perry dropped out of the Presidential race. However, this could have affected his polls. Many voters would probably be disappointed that Perry would show such tolerance to this act. Many Americans find this disrespectful and though they are young, it is unacceptable. This could have back-fired on Perry because he is supposedly a religious man with morals. Doesn't having high morals mean having zero tolerance for such an act??? For him to disagree with the punishment given to them does not make sense, in my opinion. I would expect such sympathy from a social liberal.