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Quote by: shield772 Do you know that they shed innocent blood, do you know the circumstances surrounding the incident, I find it shocking that such intelligent and fair minded individuals as yourselves would ignore the most basic of constitutional principles like a trial and being jusged by a jury of your peers, such a rush to judgement such a rush to spill blood, I believe this makes you exactly what you accuse ofthers of being. |
Oh come on. The issues of whether individual soldiers are guilty of specific crimes has yet to be determined. We shouldn't presume the guilt of individual soldiers for specific crimes. That doesn't change the obvious - 24 Iraqis, including women and children, were killed and their deaths were initially covered up and would have stayed covered up had not Time magazine reported the truth.
The larger responsibility is already being covered up. The focus is on individual Marines while ignoring the officers who shaped the cover-up and completely ignoring the larger policies that made this sort of atrocity almost unavoidable. The last time we were bogged down in an-unwinnable guerilla war, the same thing happened at My Lai.