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 Marine Pleads Guilty in Haditha Massacre CasePosted on Jan 23, 2012
The Iraq War may be “over,” but the unfinished business from years of American occupation still lingers. And a particularly grim chapter from that time, reaching all the way back to 2005, was revisited Monday in the trial of Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who entered a guilty plea on dereliction of duty in association with the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha. Some readers may recall that 400 pages worth of classified details from military interrogations about the Haditha massacre turned up in a junkyard outside Baghdad late last year. Wuterich was the last of eight Marines implicated in the case to face charges, and his sentence is expected to be handed down Tuesday. —KA
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By plainsman, January 25, 2012 at 4:42 pm Link to this comment
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All right, let me get this straight. Former U.N. weapons-inspector Scott Ritter attempts to meet a non-existent 15 year old girl online, a law enforcement “sting” operation, and gets five and a half years…
Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich was traumatized by seeing a fellow soldier get blown to pieces, was traumatized, and orders his men to attack Iraqi homes, killing 24 people, including women, a man in a wheelchair, and children (REAL, not fake ones), and gets THREE MONTHS, a pay cut and a demotion.
There aren’t words to cover this. It’s anything remotely rational…
Report thisBy gerard, January 25, 2012 at 1:41 pm Link to this comment
IMax: It’s not that the only aggressors are members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Aggressors seem to thrive everywhere, and all are equally “guilty” or “not guilty”, depending on whose ox is gored.
Report thisWhat many (most) of us anti-ox-goring fanatics are trying to do is to stop ALL ox-goring by pointing up its cruelty, its utter lack of benefits on all sides, and the fact that human beings can stop killing each other and Nature, and learn to live.
Further, that if they don’t learn to stop killing, the killers will all kill each other, followed by the massive agonies of large hordes of starving, squabbling multitudes to form the largest unsuccessful human experiement this side of AlDebaran (which, ironically enough, means “the eye of the bull in Arabic!)
(I’m not superstitious, but it pays to look up at the stars occasionally and draw what inspiration one can from symbolism and history and the history of symbolism. Then, moving right along, there’s Occupy the Bull. Now why would I bring that up, I wonder?)
By IMax, January 24, 2012 at 4:54 am Link to this comment
Scores Killed as Islamic Group Launches Attacks in Nigeria
See what I mean, gerard? See, kerryrose?
If it doesn’t involve the United States or American soldiers or citizens nobody visiting TruthDig gives a damn about life and liberty.
This is embarrassing.
Report thisBy kerryrose, January 23, 2012 at 2:42 pm Link to this comment
Three months? For the slaughter of 24 people?
Report thisBy gerard, January 23, 2012 at 2:27 pm Link to this comment
For all the good it does, I (we?) offer an equal amount of pity for both the murdered and the murderers.
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