WASHINGTON (Reuters) Texas Governor Rick Perry, scrambling and keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused that Obama government with Sunday with over-reacting to your videotape in which shows four Marines appearing to help urinate on deceased Taliban practitioners inside Afghanistan.
"These kids produced some sort of mistake. There's n't any hesitation with regards to it. They must not have completed it. It's bad," Perry shared with CNN's "State on the Union" program.
"But to be able to call that a prison act, I think, ends the top," said Perry, who people a doable make-or-break efficiency inside South Carolina Republican presidential principal on Saturday.
The U.S. Marine Corps called an investigative police officer a week ago to make a decision what, in case any, charges to bring resistant to the a number of Marines demonstrated in the widely distributed videotape.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary connected with State Hillary Clinton and different affiliates with that Obama insolvency include denounced the actual measures by the Marines.
"Defiling, desecrating, mocking, photographing or filming pertaining to particular use insurgent expended what people mean about a grave break of the (law connected with television conflict)," Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, which leads day-to-day Afghan operations, published that soldiers last week.
Perry, a former Air Force pilot, claimed this several Marines really should be suitably punished. "But asking for all of them as being a prison act, I feel (is) truly a bad message," he / she said.
Suggesting in which provided conflict can easily vary personal behavior, Perry noted that "there is a picture" regarding renowned Army General George Patton urinating within the Rhine River with Germany on the end with World War Two.
"Although there's not just a picture," Perry added, British Prime Minister Winston "Churchill would the exact same point on that Siegfried line," a huge wall connected with German defenses.
(Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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