[Cat loving Texan]

I hope our troops are killing civilians. Terrorists don't wear uniforms.

[pissant]

F**k the ACLU. They are terrorists.

[massgopguy]

“Former Iraqi General helping Insurgents=Citizen”.

[ClearCase_guy]

The ACLU has 10,000 pages of documentation? For 22 incidents? After 4 years of war?

Are they also collecting documentation on the civilians killed by our enemies? IIRC, they've killed more than we have.

[subterfuge]

Like I’m going to read propaganda from the AP...right.

[darkwing104]

As oppose to terrorist the U.S. Military investigate illegal acts. All the ACLU is doing is showboating and embolding the enemy's propaganda machine. Now we have have proof that the ACLU is a branch of Al-Queda...make me wonder if they are getting money from Bin-laden.

[T.Smith]

"A man shot after a search of his home near Balad uncovered illegal weapons and anti-American literature."

Sounds like a damn good reason to shoot him, as far as I am concerned. What would the ACLU have us do, send him to trial? It's a war, people.

Besides, what does any of this have to do with Americans' "Civil Liberties"?

[freekitty]

Oh yeah, like I am going to believe what these guys say. not

[El Cid]

Has any war been fought anywhere, and in any time, with a flock of lawyers watching every move and potential misstep of its own soldiers? And treating every accusation - even from avowed friends of the enemy - as if it has merit?
Bad stuff happens in wars.
Its best not to have one -- but when forced to engage, don't pretend that mistakes and errors of judgment will never occur.
I'm sure that there are individual incidents that warrant prosecution (there are sociopaths loose in every segment of society) -- but that is not what we're talking about here. This is 'open season' in second guessing every action of our troops. This is wrong and these lawyers at the ACLU are acting like termites seeking to destroy the foundation of our house. If anyone needs being placed under the microscope, and are worthy of prosecution, it is the ACLU folks, not our folks fighting the enemy.

[Rosemont]

ACLU siding with the enemy again.

[hsalaw]

I was upset when I read the first sentence. And then I read this: released by the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a lawsuit, and realized it's just the same old ACLU anti-American, anti-military cr*p.

[Lions Gate]

The ACLU (Anti-christ’s Lawyers Union) is one of the most despicable, demonic, and depraved organizations attacking patriotic Americans and the ideals of our Founding Fathers on a regular basis.

They are foolishly being used as pawns of Satan in a wider spiritual conflict than they realize - a war they will ultimately lose.

[gunnedah]

All who are worried about the rules need to volunteer and surrender to the terrorist so they can see first hand how prisoners are treated. Please come back and report!

[Osage Orange]

Nasrina Bargzie, an attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project, said the documents also show that theres an abundance of information being withheld from public scrutiny.

Nasrina Bargzie?

I believe she is from Afghanistan, or of Afghan descent.

Maybe she has deeper ties?

Wouldn't surprise me....

[USMCWife6869]

This is gone beyond ridiculous. The Dems are accomplishing what they want this way once they found out the public didn’t support the cut n run.

They will make it so the military men and women out there are so terrified to pull a trigger that they will all either die or be rendered helpless and demand to come home. I am so sickened that our troops now have to be more afraid of their leaders than the enemy.

It has gotten to the point where I desperately don’t want my husband to ever have to go back, and not because I don’t want him gone, but because I don’t want him to die at the hands of his own impotent leaders.

[jazusamo]

Just more anti-war propaganda by the ACLU!

[lowbridge]

The killings include the drowning of a man soldiers pushed from a bridge into the Tigris River as punishment for breaking curfew

US Army sergeant clear of killing Iraqi
Posted Sat Jan 8, 2005 7:42pm AEDT

A US military panel has found an Army sergeant innocent of killing an Iraqi civilian, but guilty of assault, for having subordinates force the Iraqi off a bridge over the Tigris River, where prosecutors said he drowned.

Army Sgt Tracy Perkins was cleared of a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but found guilty on charges of assault and obstruction of justice. He was also cleared of a charge of making false statements.

Sentencing of Perkins, 33, a 14-year Army veteran, will begin on Saturday by the same jury panel. He faces up to eleven-and-a-half years in prison on the assault and obstruction of justice convictions.

The military panel had deliberated for more than 16 hours before delivering its verdict late on Friday night.

Perkins was accused of killing Zaidoun Hassoun, 19, by having soldiers force him and Hassoun's cousin off a ledge about 3 to 4 metres above the Tigris river in Samarra, Iraq in January 2004.

Marwan Fadil, who was forced off the bridge along with his cousin, Hassoun, testified on Wednesday that the soldiers tossed the two at gunpoint into the water after they begged for mercy and then laughed as Hassoun drowned.

Defence attorney Captain Joshua Norris said the panel should not convict Perkins because there was "no body, no evidence, no death". Soldiers testified the both men made it safely to shore and that the death may have been faked.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/01/08/1278799.htm

[mimaw]

Neither do journalists.

[Logophile]

In a previously unreported case, Pfc. James Combs was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for shooting an Iraqi woman from a guard tower in what he claimed was an accident, though court documents and testimony indicate his weapon was set to fire multiple shots despite a regulation advising against such a setting.

The writer seems to believe that the shooting could not have been accidental if the weapon was set on full automatic.

A question: Does a regulation "advise"?

[Bulldawg Fan]

Getting rid of the ACLU would be very helpful.

[pierrem15]

6 years of fighting and al they have is 22 incidents? Pathetic.