If we should error should it not be on the side of the soldier whose life is on the line at that very moment or that he sees a man dyeing and offers mercy.
What would you do?
Let's hope this is not a PC trial.
3 Soldiers were jailed in the UK this week and that may well have been a sop, to the anti war crowd.
As the scene was unfolding, there were gunbattles with insurgents in the immediate vicinity, and evacuation of the injured was not possible, according to defense witnesses.
Don't let the Schiavo threads see this or you'll be swamped with name-calling and accusations that the soldier is a "monster"...
"Prosecutors are expected to introduce a 10-minute video of the incident and the events preceding it. An unmanned aerial vehicle operating at the time near the Iraqi cities of Kufa and Najaf apparently captured the shooting on tape."
Good God, had they had the immense amount of watchdogs including unmanned aerial's taping and inbedded journalists and cameras during WWII as they have in Iraq the WWII itself would never had been prosecuted as they would have spent all their time in courts prosecuting soldiers.
The report stated there were at least two bullet wounds to the base of the driver’s skull and that
- brain matter was on his clothes and in the car. -
A medical expert said a person in such a state could still move, but it would likely be involuntarily.
Mercy or Murder.
There is the report, properly separated, you decide.
The Marine, who was accused to killing the unarmed man, was found not guilty last week. Someone had a petition drive that accumulated over 300,000 signatures in favor of that Marine.
Someone had a petition for Capt. Maynulet on petitionsonline.com. Sadly, the last time I checked it, it had around 3,000 total signatures.
It is a shame that Capt. Maynulet has not received an outpouring of support and and petition drive in his favor.
This was a friggin' combat zone! Anyone assisting the enemy in any way should be terminated with extreme prejudice as a matter of course!
The problem is that the military is being run by lawyers.
The battlefield cannot be run in the same way that we regulate civilian life but that's what the lawyers are trying to do, regardless.
Obviously if soldiers are expected to act like lawyers first, and soldiers second, the military must provide each soldier with a law degree prior to active duty.