This was brought to my attention by Jack Idema the other day when we did his Rogue Radio Live show. I had no idea that this even happened. Der Spiegel and others have talked about members of the Bundeswehr who posed for a photo op with the bleached skulls of undetermined origin.

The outrage of the ‘desecration’ of the bones and skulls from what some reports say were mass graves seems to be somewhat ridiculous to me, because nobody seems to know precisely who the skeletons were when they were alive. They could have been dead Taleban from the 2001-2002 war, they could have been dead Afghans from the war with the soviets, or even soviets themselves. But of course, if they’re dead Taleban, the Taleban wants the worst punishment on the Germans for ‘desecrating the graves of the mujahideen’.

Germany reacted by claiming that this behavior from men in a war zone is unacceptable, and at least two of the soldiers have been suspended.

From the terrorists’ mouthpiece, the New York Times:

The photos of German soldiers posing with skulls in Afghanistan have endangered the mission of an army deployed to win the “hearts and minds” of Afghans. The government has promised tough disciplinary actions.

Oh, gee, it’s horrible that the German SF would dare do such a thing when it turns out it wasn’t a mass grave, it was a field that they stumbled upon, littered with bones.

German State Secretary of Defense Christian Schmidt was practically gushing with praise for Germany’s troops, calling them “citizens in uniform” with strong characters and rock-solid ethics. Schmidt, a member of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), even ventured to characterize the Bundeswehr’s soldiers as “well-balanced individuals.”

That, at least, was the theory.

Schmidt’s statement was released to the press last Wednesday. On the same day, the German public got a taste of a completely different reality when images were published showing German soldiers who had placed a skull onto the hood of a Mercedes “Wolf” all-terrain truck as a sort of war trophy, a soldier pressing his naked genitalia against a skull and soldiers using the remnants of skulls as decorations, all the while smiling for the camera.

The scandalous photos from Afghanistan, published by the tabloid Bild and distributed worldwide last week, have plunged the Bundeswehr into its biggest crisis in years. They fly in the face of a concept under which German soldiers are meant to serve as ambassadors of democracy, and under which they are meant to seek acceptance in crisis regions like Afghanistan and Lebanon, a strategy intended to boost their own security. Only if it manages to win the “hearts and minds” of the local population, says Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), can the German military prevail over the enemy in such countries.

Oh my, they’re faced with an undeniable fact that leftists want to completely avoid when we’re supposed to be at war with an enemy determined to kill us:

death and the military are all-too-often closely intertwined.

Well that’s according to leftists, I thought the military was supposed to kill the enemy. But I guess that’s not true when you’re part of the NATO “peacekeeping force”, that’s why their asses are literally getting kicked to here and back in southern Afghanistan where the Taleban is winning, and Nato has announced they need help-to the point where they’ve called upon the ‘warlords’ that the media has villified for not giving up their weapons.

You’re stupid if you give up weapons when a war is not won, you’re stupid to think that ‘peacekeeping forces’ can win over crazed Islamofascist head hackers that want to saw your head off for being an infidel.

Naturally the terrorists’ mouthpiece the NYT won’t miss the opportunity to take a swipe at the American barbarians when discussing the German photo op with skulls from a bone-strewn field:

We have always known that the emotional effects of war are devastating on those involved, and German troops are no exception. And yet compared to the excesses of American GIs, the Bundeswehr’s behavior is almost innocent.

I’ve published some of the photographs I’ve managed to dig up because I’m not ‘politically correct’, and I’m not going to bow down to the dhimmis in the media or anywhere else, that are already behaving as though they live in an Islamic State.

Which brings me to Michelle Malkin’s observation about the story in Iraq of the Sunni’s who died a horrible death after having been doused by gasoline. Apparently Centcomm has an entire list of news reports that are being investigated because they’re suspected to contain pure propaganda.

I’d like to know why are the Gods of political correctness objecting to this at all? Don’t they have better things to do? Guess not, a 25-year-old junior staff officer and a member of a mountain division based in the southern German town of Mittenwald were already suspended, and the ‘investigation’ has expanded to 20 or so men beyond that.

They’re accused of the crime of “disturbing the dead”, and are almost guaranteed to lose their jobs, their ranks and their military pensions.

Heh. So many times these kinds of things remind me of how the Islamists don’t blink an eye when ‘disturbing the dead’, neither are they condemned for it or pursued and prosecuted. It brings me back to the horrible images of Menchaca and Tucker. It’s not an even playing field; the Islamists take films of themselves committing horrible deeds, and nobody is allowed to do anything in response; even fight back. In the case of Afghanistan, Taleban and Al Q fighters are just walking out of the doors of Pulacharke so they can commit another dirty deed.

The outrage in this incident seems to me to be unbalanced and unfair, and these guys shouldn’t have to pay a price for that…otherwise we in America shouldn’t have mummies on display in museums. The New York Times also mentions toward the end of that article that the military are “dumb” and that the Bundeswehr is having difficulty with the level of education within their ranks, etc. Same old crap as John Kerry says about our troops; anyone who’s over there is ’stuck’ because they didn’t study or get an education. Ridiculous.

The level of education among soldiers has declined considerably, says military commissioner Robbe. Indeed, during a visit to one of the Bundeswehr’s recruitment offices, the military commissioner was able to witness the lack of adequate education within the military profession firsthand. “One of the junior officers,” says Robbe, “couldn’t even tell me the names of the defense minister or the chancellor.”

Well take a microphone and go down Fifth Avenue in New York or Michigan Avenue in Chicago and ask people some basic questions about current events. Most people don’t have a clue, and that’s not exclusively a German problem.