YOU are painting with a very broad brush. I don’t think you realize what it takes to become a Marine. Marines ARE top performers, who had a good shot at DOING ANYTHING, but are GIVING their LIVES on behalf of their country.
If you have evidence of **actual** misconduct, I’m all ears. But at worst, I’ve seen in this is that the military took seriously some allegations for which there was NO evidence. There certainly isn’t enough evidence to suggest that this is an abuse of LIFE SAVING discretion.
As regards the NCIS agents - in case you haven’t been following this case, the CHARGES which apparently proved crucial in the life Corporal Sharratt were from an NCIS agent.
I’ve had it up to here with all these broad-brush attacks against MARINES and from people who don’t know jack-squat about WAR. They’re doing their job - they are duty-bound, and there WASN’T enough evidence to prosecute allegations like were made in Haditha.
No amount of training, skill, Superman genes, puts someone above the law, at least not the last time I looked at the Constitution.
These kinds of charges leading to this kind of investigation are also awfully rare. It is orders of magnitude more likely to die in battle than to find oneself on the wrong end of a case like this.
Let the system play out, without (as some have openly) wishing people to lie just for the purpose of mucking up the case.
Not even close to being true. There was certainly enough witness statements and forensic evidence to warrant an investigation, and probably enough to bring this to an Art. 32 hearing.
The critical difference between a soldier and a terrorist is the rules of discipline that soldiers must follow. Soldiers do not have carte blanche to just kill 'em all. To the extent that those were the allegations against the Haditha Marines, those charges had to be taken seriously and the legal process followed to the conclusion.
It appears that the Marines were vindicated. That's wonderful news - but let's not go overboard and start impugning the integrity of the officers who were duty-bound to investigate and prosecute based on these allegations.
I’ve had it up to here with all these broad-brush attacks against MARINES and from people who don’t know jack-squat about WAR.
Tell you what - once someone starts calling all Marines "war criminals" or "baby killers," then the analogy works. Until that point, however, there has not been a single broad-brush attack against the Marines by anyone here.
All I'm saying is that the JAGs are military officers who deserve respect too. I know too many of them to think anything different.