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To: TimF who wrote (211846)	11/16/2004 6:55:11 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573822

Fallujah should have been made an example in April as Hiroshima and Nagasaki was after the four contractors were killed, burned, mutilated, and dragged through the streets before being strung up on a bridge for the media to film... If you want to make nice with these cockroaches, you will end up dead. We'll agree to disagree....

To: TimF who wrote (211846)	11/16/2004 9:02:13 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573822

So you think he shouldn't be tried for murder if it is known that he intentionally killed a non-threatening wounded prisoner? I have to disagree. I found the incident to be unsettling. I recognize, of course, that stuff like this happens at war -- human lives get devalued. Happens in every war, I guess. At any rate, I suspect the individual will be tried and convicted. It is difficult for me to see what the circumstances might have been that would have made it appropriate; however, I don't really know to what extent soldiers are required to risk their own lives to take these people prisoner rather than killing them. If he thought his life may be threatened, killing the guy would certainly seem appropriate even thought it looked pretty arbitrary. Of course, I don't even know whether the guy was alive to begin with.

To: TimF who wrote (211846)	11/20/2004 12:20:55 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573822

Tim Re...So you think he shouldn't be tried for murder if it is known that he intentionally killed a non-threatening wounded prisoner? From the tape I have seen, I don't think there is any doubt that that marine considered that terrorist a threat. The marine several times said he thought the terrorist was faking it; ostensibly so that the terrorist could surprise someone unaware. Whether the marine was justified, making that observation, is another matter.