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blondebanshee

(353 posts)
Mon May 6, 2019, 09:36 PM May 2019

Trump grants pardon to man who killed Iraqi prisoner

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Donald Trump has granted a pardon to a former first lieutenant in the U.S. Army convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump granted clemency to Michael Behenna of Oklahoma.

[link:https://ktul.com/news/nation-world/trump-grants-pardon-to-man-who-killed-iraqi-prisoner|

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Trump grants pardon to man who killed Iraqi prisoner (Original Post) blondebanshee May 2019 OP
Of course he did. rusty quoin May 2019 #1
this shouldn't bdamomma May 2019 #2
Its almost to a point where my feelings about the Orange Shitgibbon would get me hidden ... marble falls May 2019 #3
Hey he was brown. That don't matter to Trump. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 #4
Prisoners of war and detainees protected under international humanitarian law struggle4progress May 2019 #5
Prisoners Of War Can't Be Treated Like Most Prisoners struggle4progress May 2019 #6
We already know what Trump thinks of POWs TwilightZone May 2019 #8
... We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. struggle4progress May 2019 #7

bdamomma

(63,658 posts)
2. this shouldn't
Mon May 6, 2019, 09:48 PM
May 2019

be no surprise to how trump views people who are different he probably viewed this prisoner as a "loser" who deserved to be killed. tRump is vile.

marble falls

(56,371 posts)
3. Its almost to a point where my feelings about the Orange Shitgibbon would get me hidden ...
Mon May 6, 2019, 09:50 PM
May 2019

if I posted them.

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
6. Prisoners Of War Can't Be Treated Like Most Prisoners
Mon May 6, 2019, 11:03 PM
May 2019

Ben Tippett
8/29/18 3:43pm

The protection of prisoners of war is a fundamental pillar of international humanitarian law (IHL), the laws of armed conflict. The only legitimate objective of armed conflict is to weaken the military capacity of the adversary. Therefore, rather than permitting the cold-blooded execution of all captured enemy personnel, IHL guarantees their humane treatment for the entirety of their detention ...

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/prisoners-of-war-cant-be-treated-like-most-prisoners-1828296348

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
7. ... We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.
Mon May 6, 2019, 11:08 PM
May 2019

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.
We thought the light would increase.
Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.
Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.
Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth.
Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Litany for Dictatorships
Stephen Vincent Benét, 1935


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