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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (135804)	6/6/2004 4:32:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<And I am very sure that anyone would consider it an outrage if the killers of this US soldier (if a trial establishes their guilt), are punished in the same way that killers of Iraqi prisoners have been punished. Demotion in rank, and an early discharge from the army.> They should be given a punishment about 1/200 th of what Lt Calley got for his genocide at My Lai, with some further reduction because the victim was a soldier rather than an innocent woman or child. Perhaps a wet bus ticket slap on the wrist would be about right. Americans' idea of human rights is that Americans are really special, but other people aren't really people. Which isn't surprising since it isn't all that long since they had slavery and I can remember when melanin-rich women were forced to the back of the bus and thugs met negro children at the school door. It's in their culture to have lesser humans, despite their hypocritical cant about being Christians, which I thought involved universal human concepts. Americans don't like the idea of an International Criminal Court for themselves, just other lesser people. Americans need to be given a free hand to deliver morality, democracy and freedom to the world and do it good and hard! Which can be quite icky at times. Sometimes they have to destroy the village to save it. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Mqurice

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (135804)	6/7/2004 9:22:58 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Yes you are right. That is the one case being investigated as a homicide. This is a lie.. There are other cases being investigated, especially related to the same incident with the 507th.. And if you'd bothered to read that article I posted from CNN.com, you'd have recognized and admitted that what you wrote was incorrect. The investigation is one of several military investigations into possible war crimes committed by Iraqis or other anti-American fighters during major combat actions. Ten ongoing criminal investigations are connected to other soldiers killed in the 507th ambush. Walters' investigation is the first to be near completion. cnn.com Hawk