‘Anti-war’ candidate Graham Platner once defended ‘urinating’ on dead Taliban, called war ‘the most enjoyable experience’

I was a teenager when I enlisted in the Marine Corps,” Lefty Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner said in a statement to The ...
KTSA

Democratic Senate Candidate Previously Said War Was ‘Enjoyable,’ Backed Desecrating Taliban Corpses

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Marine veteran running as a left-wing populist, faces renewed ...
Mediaite on MSN

Democratic Senate candidate once defended a Marine who urinated on dead fighters

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner once defended a Marine who had urinated on a dead Taliban fighter, according ...
New York Post

Marine vet tells The Post why some Afghans ‘turn on’ US forces they fight with: ‘Happens a lot more than people suspect’

WASHINGTON — A Marine Force Reconnaissance soldier who served eight tours in Afghanistan told The Post Friday that some locals who fought the Taliban were “disloyal” to the US forces they partnered ...
The Root

Don't Be So Quick to Judge Marines in Taliban Video

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. makes a counterintuitive argument about a group of U.S. Marines captured on video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. He say we should not be so ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Troops check off Marjah, turn sights on Kandahar

MARJAH, Afghanistan — Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled city of Marjah on Saturday - part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger ...