[Jeff Head]

Insurgents making bombs to kill our troops...and had certainly been the cause of death of our troops. These same insurgents when found doing their bomb making, shoot it out with our soldiers who kill one, chase down and kill another, and then the third got away.

If the last one killed was "all shot to hell" or not, I believe as soon as our boys walked into that room and saw the guy who they had just had a firefight with and who was making bombs, that killing him on the spot was the right thing to do.

It's war...and war against an enemy that is known (just like the Japnese were in World War II) for booby trapping themselves, for playing possum and then trying to kill our boys, etc. Under these foolish restrictions and circumstances, thousands fo marines would have been prosecurted in World War II, and thousands and thousands more of our boys would have died.

These soldiers are there to win and kill the enemy and destroy their ability, and their WILL to wage war against us. While we cannot tolerate predmitated murder of innocents in the least...IMHO, this circumstance is nothing like or close to that and we have to quit hamstringing our soldiers.

[jazusamo]

I believe as soon as our boys walked into that room and saw the guy who they had just had a firefight with and who was making bombs, that killing him on the spot was the right thing to do.

Spot on!

He was an insurgent enemy combatant not covered by the Geneva Conventions. Sgt. Trevino did the right thing and PC Pvt. Miller should be given his walking papers, grudge or no grudge he's fighting this war for the wrong side.