Marine accused of killing 24 Iraqis in Haditha makes plea deal

[sabrina 1]

114. Clearly you were not following this case from the beginning.

The court martial was a joke. There were no witnesses from the village, so many who saw what happened, no victims' family members present. This was more like a Grand Jury where only the prosecution presents a case.

It's a shame that the US feels it can send its military into other people's countries and then, when they commit war crimes, insist they not be held accountable according to the laws of that country. One good outcome of this was that the Iraqis refused to continue to give that immunity to foreigners and that is the main reason why we left Iraq.

I wonder what Americans would think if a foreign army invaded this country and did something like this, which would probably be inevitable given the nature of war? Would they be making excuses for the invaders?? Frankly I think the Iraqis whose family members were killed in this and other brutal attacks, have been very, very tolerant, far more so than we would. And then we claim to be the civilized nation.