[spunkets]

" I'm growing alot more confident that the Marines did not kill them."

Sgt Wuterich, Capt McConnell, Lt Col Chessani and the Marine Corps agree that they did kill them. The folks from Kilo Co say that it was a mistake.

"paying $$ to dead civilians families does not implicate crime"

In this case it means the action taken was a mistake.

[pissant]

From the Time article, the only reference I could find to a mistake is this:

Emad Jawad Hamza, led an angry delegation of elders up to the Marine camp beside a dam on the Euphrates River. Hamza says, "The captain admitted that his men had made a mistake. He said that his men thought there were terrorists near the houses, and he didn't give any other reason."

That's some guy named Hamza talking, not the Captain.