Marines told to disarm for Panetta

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... tta-speech

Sounds like tensions are running pretty high, wow!

In a highly unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Although the military said the order was not given in response to Sunday's shooting of 16 Afghan civilians allegedly by an American soldier, it possibly underlined how high tensions were running after the incident.
...He said he had given the order because the two dozen Afghan soldiers also there were unarmed and he did not want to treat them differently.

Wow, indeed.

Didn't want to treat them differently - really? Guess what, they are different from our own Marines - their loyalty is not to the same government, they have not taken an oath to preserve, protect and defend the same Constitution. How many ways will this administration find to insult the men and women in uniform?

Doesn't the right ever get tired of playing the victim on everything?

Think the Secret Service is going to agree to be disarmed, ever, so that the protection details of other foreign leaders are not "treated differently" in the Oval Office? Me neither.

JSG wrote: Doesn't the right ever get tired of playing the victim on everything?

WTH? How would that make thr RIGHT victim, dumba$$?
Sounds to me like panetta was afraid the the troops would open up on HIM!

You have trouble with reading comprehension and you call me a dumbass?

Of course it wasn't Panetta who made this decision. It was a Major General.

JSG was responding to Print's post.

The Afghans were prohibited from having weapons precisely because of the possibility of them opening fire on Panetta if they were allowed to keep them, let's not fool ourselves for one minute. Not only Panetta mind you, but perhaps other Marines who happened to be there. Darned straight they should be treated differently given recent events.

Question: Is this SOP? Were the US troops disarmed when Cheney, "W", & Obama visited?
How about Bob Hope?