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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1471)	11/21/2004 11:51:05 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Sure.....he and the other guys were lying there wounded since the day before.... Why do you and your kind immediately jump to the defense of such atrocities because they are committed by Americans...this has nothing to do with your love of Bush. We all understand the stress of their situations but we have never, as Americans, condoned atrocities..... Americans have committed atrocities in every war we ever been involved in, but we've always denied it at the time.... Only history books tell it like it was...see Steven Ambrose's books on WWII in Europe and learn how common killing prisoners was among American troops... Hear! Hear! Its disgusting how their defenders turn these atrocities into acts of heroism and bravery!

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1471)	11/22/2004 7:06:59 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

I felt it necessary to jump to his defense if for no other other reason than he has not been tried by our military. You and reject do not know the rules of engagement they are operating under. You do not know nor comprehend the stress they're under, but you are so quick to judge. To offer your "enlightened" opinion. You and your kind have this man convicted. What he did, while scary to see, horrible to comprehend, may have been A-OK under our rules of engagement. That, and that alone, makes what he did LEGAL. Not right, but legal. Hence he is "guilty" of nothing. As far as the mental ramifications of what he did, he will have to learn to live with them. I hope this young marine has skin tough enough for what he is going to have to endure from his AMERICAN countrymen. Rather than support, he now has their scorn. There is no greater service, than service to others where your life could be lost protecting others. He protected others. He did his job.