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To: Road Walker who wrote (212240)	11/22/2004 11:24:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577020

John, This is the link to the blog for the camera man who shot the film. Play close attention to what the Lt. Colonel says. The killing was ugly! However, it will 'go away' like so many other things that will start 'going away'. We needed regime change but instead we will get much more of the same. kevinsites.net ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (212240)	11/25/2004 2:01:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577020

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. Tim