What is going on. P C culture gone wild, if we had done this during WWII we would all be speaking German.
Never should’ve served a day behind bars if you ask me. Never understood why presidential pardons were so slow in coming in these cases. Nine, ten years... you’re depriving a man a significant part of his life for being a hero... SPIT!!!
Any serviceman prosecuted for killing the enemy needs to be pardoned immediately. Our military do not receive law enforcement training; they are trained to identify the enemy and kill them.
This man did nothing wrong. He did what he was trained to do.
Any army that if more afraid of the lawyers than the enemy is doomed.
“Premeditated murder”... How utterly absurd! What was he there to do, counseling? Of course it was premeditated, intentional, etc.! For every Taliban turd he took out of that shithole country, how many Afghan kids, girls and American soldiers did he save?
Take every one of those damned JAG officers - most of whom barely know how to put on a uniform, fly them to Afghanistan, give them ‘chutes and kick ‘em out over the Zabul Province with our blessings!
I hope President Trump grants him a full pardon. This is PC run amok. When the prosecutor is allowed to lean on witnesses like that, the result is injustice. Besides, the goat jumpers do not wear uniforms as required by the Geneva Convention. Do people realize what we did to Germans infiltrating our lines out of uniform during WWII?
I can post the pics of the firing squads. Such people can be classified as spies under the terms of the Geneva Convention and the law of land warfare, and can lawfully be summarily shot.
It’s like the Maharishi said in War you kill things and break things, period.
We are reverting to the British model. Right now, a man in his 70’s is being prosecuted for killing a young man in Belfast in the 70’s. After the incident he was cleared. Now they are again going after all those who are still alive. The man in the news now said he was shooting in the air to disperse the protesters. Will let you know the outcome.
I cannot imagine a good reason to prosecute a man who killed a member of the Taliban. It was his job.
In matter like this, the investigators and prosecutors of our soldiers should be hanging from lamp posts.
These people are nothing but commissars.