[RedRover]

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This is the first report I've seen from today's hearing. There should be a fuller report tonight.

[RedRover]

[free_for_now]

The family has my prayers. I wonder what is the standard? To me, if he was acting in good faith, he is innocent of manslaughter. Unless the prosecution could prove that he knew the Syrians were not planting a bomb, IMO he was totally within the rules of engagement.

[ZULU]

This is rediculous.

No nation that ever existed was able to conduct a war under “rules of engagement” like this. It sounds even worse than Viet Nam over there.

[GT Vander]

Accusing this guy of manslaughter is like writing speeding tickets at Daytona during speed week. He saw a threat and neutralized it. Sounds pretty straight forward to me.

[4woodenboats]

Odd that there is no word whether it was in fact an IED planted. Maybe NCT didn’t think that was relevant?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

What can the Marine Corp be thinking? How are they get to get men to fight in combat if they risk prison for following orders. Let the Legal Eagles go on some combat patrols and then get their reactions.

This guy deserves our support.

[xzins]

This is so clearly within his orders.

I have no idea why the government wasted money to have bring this even to an art 32.

It is sheer insanity.

Why not just charge every troop who has ever fired any round in Iraq or Afghanistan?

We can just have everyone read their rights are part of the predeployment briefing. /sarc.

[Eagles6]

"four Syrians?

Uhh... is the judge going to allow evidence regarding if these ..syrians..were terrorists or just on vacation, a religious pilgrimage perhaps, to one of iraq's many "holy" cities? Maybe they were kneeling down to pray./sarc.

Appears that everywhere muhammad(may pigs be upon him) took a dump is a "holy" city.

[Lancey Howard]

In yesterday's report this same writer, Mark Walker, referred to the civilians as "Iraqi civilians".
Today they're back to "four Syrians", which was what I thought I read last week.

[Tallguy]

So according to the report from the accused Marine’s officers, this shooting was well within the rules of engagement. So what’s the beef?

They took a skilled Marine scout sniper off the line less than a month into his tour. They probably restricted his entire squad while they were questioned — losing their services for a significant period. And for what? So that we could show Syria our ‘due dilligence’? That country that was building a NK-Nuke reactor right under our noses (until the Israeli’s took it out). Doesn’t anybody have a backbone anymore?

I wonder how many IED’s got laid successfuly in that sector of Anbar Province because the RCT in that area didn’t have enough observers to cover the ground. How many Humvee’s & their soldier/sailor/Marine drivers got wasted? How many Iraqi civilians got hurt?

This is beyond Stupidity. It’s criminal — the prosecution that is. / Rant OFF