U.S. Soldier Charged in Fatal Shooting of Hurt Iraqi

[merh]

OUR ADMINISTRATION CREATED THIS ENVIRONMENT AND FUELED THE HATE and now .........

U.S. Soldier Charged in Fatal Shooting of Hurt Iraqi
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is bringing murder charges against a soldier who fatally shot at close range an Iraqi man who already was badly wounded in a vehicle after a high-speed chase in Iraq (news - web sites), officials said on Wednesday.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040616/ts_nm/iraq_usa_charges_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

[FlashHarry]

1. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x626702

[merh]

3. sorry, it wasn't there when I began

How can I correct?

[JaySherman]

2. More scapegoating.

Not to justify what the soldier did but for a defense official to sit behind a desk and claim that "soldiers don't get to make those kinds of decisions" is sheer hypocrisy of the highest order. They didn't make the decision to be sent into the senseless war either. Those decisions are being handed down by men who sit safely in air-conditions 'war rooms' thousands of miles away, who in many cases have never tasted the horrors of real combat.

I'm not going to judge that soldier's actions since I don't know enough about the situation, but the bottom line is he never should have been put in that position in the first place.

This will only serve to increase the hatred of BushCo within the military.

[Moderator]

4. duplicate thread

Please continue this slightly older discussion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=626702