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On the very day the video from Afghanistan emerged, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz took the stand in a courtroom at Camp Pendleton in California and testified that he urinated on the skull of a dead Iraqi in 2005. Dela Cruz made the admission during the court-martial of a Marine charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha.

Dela Cruz said he was overcome with grief over a comrade killed by a roadside bomb. “The emotion took over,” he told a military defense attorney.

Marty Brenner, an anger management specialist in Beverly Hills, Calif., who treats combat veterans and civilians, said the acts depicted in the video — and the Marines’ recording of it — demonstrate rage.

“They have no other way of expressing their anger at these people,” Brenner said, “so what they’re doing is urinating on them to show, ‘I’m better. I want the world to see you guys are crap and that’s what you deserve.’”

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Desecration of the dead is as old as war itself

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