You obviously missed my point, which is, who cares? 10,000, 50,000, 100,00 Iraqi civilians dead, who cares about one "enemy" soldier? I don't see anyone wringing their hands about the last of a thousand 500 ton bunker buster bombs.
I take deliberate murder more seriously than people getting caught in the crossfire esp. wehn great efforts are made to reduce the number of innocent people killed (BTW I think the 100k figure is totally bogus). Yes either way they are just as dead but murder should be punished. There is nothing self-righteous or hypocritical about that stand.
In this case I don't think it was deliberte murder so my reaction is more of a hypothetical one. The only difference the camera makes is that we know that there is a potential case.
So you do, after all, think it was "deliberate murder"?
How do you get that from "I don't think deliberate murders by American serviceman happen 20 times a day or anywhere close to that frequently, even in the most intense periods of the conflict."?
I talked about this situation as a potential case of deliberate murder. I don't think it was murder but I am far from sure about that.
You support our troops far less than I do.
I support them and most of what they are doing, but I don't support anything they might happen to do. I don't support the actions they took at Abu Ghraib, and I wouldn't support any other crimes. If this killing was jusitifed than I support this marine, I certainly support him against getting railroaded on this whether or not it was justified but I don't think he will be. He might not be charged at all and if he is I think he will get a fair trial.
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