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Wow, thanks for posting all the updates from day #2 of LCpl Tatum's hearing.

Well, now that explains a lot. What do we have from Mendoza's testimony?

Mendoza, a Venezuelan citizen, was worried that he could lose the chance to become a U.S. citizen. Mendoza's application for citizenship would be denied if he were charged with a crime.

Mendoza's testimony contrasted starkly with any previously heard account of the killing

Mendoza acknowledged that he had given different statements to an Army colonel who probed the killings and then to agents from NCIS

Mendoza said his lies were designed to shield his fellow Marines from prosecution. He said he would lie to protect his fellow Marines but would not lie to protect himself.

Mendoza claims he mosied down the hallway in House #2 all by his lonesome, opened the door and determined there were only women and children. He left and went back to the kitchen.

Mendoza claims Tatum alone went back there and killed all the women and children by himself. { No mention of where Wuterich and Salinas were - maybe having a smoke in the kitchen with Mendoza}

The 13-year-old survivor in the back room (House #2) said the first Marine to open fire was shorter than she was. Mendoza is 5' 4" tall; Tatum is 6' 2".

Mendoza failed a lie detector test given this spring after changing his account of events.

Tatum easily passed a polygraph test earlier this year at the request of his attorneys. The polygraph examiner deemed that Tatum had answered truthfully when he said he did not know there were women and children in the room before he opened fire. The polygrapher also determined Tahtum thought both houses he entered in Haditha were hostile.

Okay, I say thank Mendoza for his previous service, charge him with perjury, convict him, then deport his lying you-know-what.

Mendoza said his lies were designed to shield his fellow Marines from prosecution. He said he would lie to protect his fellow Marines but would not lie to protect himself.

It seems the polygraph exams tend to point out this liar and non liar is a liar, especially since he failed and Tatum passed.

Okay, I say thank Mendoza for his previous service, charge him with perjury

So do I but I'd let the panel on the courts-martial decide the rest and it looks like the outcome would be much the same as yours.