Ilario Pantano Quotations

Ilario Pantano is a former United States Marine Corps second lieutenant who was accused of premeditated murder in the killing of two Iraqi civilians on April 15, 2004. A military tribunal exonerated Pantano, who maintained he had shot the men as they approached him in a threatening fashion.

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I'm a New Yorker and 9/11 was a pretty significant event for me, our duty as Marines is, quite frankly, to export violence to the four corners of the globe, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

You asked if I had regrets and I want to answer you directly. There are many things about war that I regret. War is the darkest hour of humanity, but if you ask me if I would do what I did again, I say yes.

It takes hard men willing to do hard things in order to set an example that others can and will follow.