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It's been a bad week for American war criminals. Yesterday, a 20 year old Marine was sentenced to 18 months for taking part in kidnapping and killing an unarmed Iraqi man. The day before that, an Army specialist plead guilty to raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. That makes a total of at least 16 U.S. military personnel who have been convicted of illegally killing Iraqis since the war began. And we have yet to hear whether the Marine Corps will bring charges against its soldiers accused of massacring 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November.

Posted by Vince Beiser on 11/16/06 at 8:00 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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As usual, this is just more smoke and mirrors meant to distract us from the real war criminals who are running the show. I am not saying that people shouldn't be held responsible for their actions. They should. Rape is rape. Murder is murder. Even during hostilities between two governments.

What I am saying it that prosecutions for such crimes should begin at the top where attitude and policy begin. When the people at the top think that torture, even unto death, is perfectly acceptable, this attitude will taint every encounter with the "enemy." This is one case where the "trickle-down" theory actually works.

Posted by: gar on 11/19/06 at 7:04 AM

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