[Prime Choice]

A criminal investigator had said during an earlier hearing that the soldiers decided to kill him to "put him out of his misery."

No good deed goes unpunished.

[Terpfen]

Probably a bit extreme, but I'm reminded of how Patton was railroaded post-VE Day.

[Echo Talon]

BS...

[Echo Talon]

I guess they should have killed him by overdosing him with morphine huh?

[freepatriot32]

this is beyond b.s. nad is goingot lead to a lot of peopel that where thinking of joining the military changing thier minds

[endthematrix]

Re: "severe abdominal wounds"

I had read that half his skull was gone.

Just damn.

[Pro-Bush]

Get this guy the best lawyer, I'll contribute!

[SeaBiscuit]

so.. this soldier gets 3 years for putting a teenager out of his misery and skerry got a purple heart for shooting a teenager in the back..

[wolficatZ]

I have a video clip of an American soldier gunning down a couple of surrendering Nazi's carrying white flags.

Those were the good old days..

[BigCinBigD]

"The charges relate to the Aug. 18 killing of a 16-year-old Iraqi male found in a burning truck with severe abdominal wounds"

I would have just called 911 and monitored the situation.

[PLMerite]

Lesson learned: "Let 'em cook."

[Liberty Ship]

"Beholding them with pity there came an old soldier who asked me if there was any means of curing them. I told him no. At once he approached them and cut their throats gently and, seeing this great cruelty, I shouted at him that he was a villain. He answered me that he prayed to God that should he be in such a state he might find someone who would do the same for him, to the end that he might not languish miserably."

— Ambroise Pare’, speaking of three badly-burnt soldiers, 1536



". . . he was placed in charge of a unit which had suffered extremely heavy casualties, during which time he felt compelled to shoot an American pilot who had been disemboweled in a crash. This act was necessary according to the code of the warrior (an honorable fighting man puts his comrades out of their misery) but resulted in his rejection by a primarily enlisted brotherhood who held a more ‘civilian’ concept of the warrior ethos."

— Joanna Bourke, from An Intimate History of Killing (p. 38)

[cynicom]

Rummy and the Washington idiots are starting to micromanage the war as did LBJ and MacNamara.

[Rakkasan1]

should have thrown him some frankfurters to let him roast
with his entrails...

[GVnana]

Why worry about Liberals destroying the military when the courts turn soldiers into heartless robots?

[ATCNavyRetiree]

The issue is not perhaps so much what this soldier did, but the larger issue of lack of "Arab outrage" over what the enemy is doing...(beheadings, playing dead and then popping up and shooting our soldiers, etc., etc., etc.).

This s*%t is getting old...real quick!

[Natural Law]

"killing a severely wounded Iraqi teenager"

That phrase was intentionally inflammatory. It did not mention that he was a combatant. Let's not forget how many of our troops are teenagers too.

[Radix]

President Bush should give this Troop a Pardon the day before the inauguration.

That would send a serious message to a lot of Troops, media, and insurgents.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Read this thread, you ain't gonna believe it....