Black humor is a natural human response to the unpleasant. I will not judge these men but I hope they are prepared for the onslaught of hatred they will get. We are sending very young men into combat and this happens more often than people think.
Bush’s fault, no doubt.
Der Spiegel.
Thanks Cardhu.
The Guardian is NYT of the UK.
Interesting way to put it
I wonder what Murtha and Durbin would have to say about this.
Some people are going to spend the rest of their days in jail.
God I hope this is not true. If it is, I am ashamed to have served in the same military as these people.
Kill all the enemy you can, but don’t kill civilians and FOR DAMN SURE don’t have your picture taken next to them.
Didn’t we learn anything from Abu Ghraib? If you are going to do stupid shit, DON’T TAKE PICTURES.
Buried mid-article:
“All of the soldiers have denied the charges.”
If they are guilty or innocent, let the military handle it. Please not another AbuGhraib orgy filled with grandstanding Congressmen and Senators and pants wetting officials. This stuff happens in war, always has, always will. That doesn’t make it right but it doesn’t need to be turned into Grand Spectacle of Self-Flagellation.
So, assuming it’s legit, where’s the ravenous global media Abu Ghraib media outrage now demanding the SECDEF’s resignation? Oh, that’s right. It’s Obama’s war now. Never mind. Just some bad actors. An isolated incident, not encouraged at the highest levels like the prisoner abuse in Iraq. /s/
i have serious doubts about this account of the actions of these soldiers.
When my boy was in Afghanistan back in 2008-2009, his platoon COP took rocket fire that was determined to be from a village not far from the Pakistan border. His platoon returned fire with 120mm mortars.
Despite claims by other parties of civilian casualties (including children) the Damage Assessment parties found only the mangled bodies of four Taliban fighters in that village.
The rocket attacks stopped.
This is The Guardian, so I automatically distrust “unarmed” and “civilian.”
The Taliban surely take the weapons of their un-uniformed dead comrades back to their hidey holes.
Must have been simple goat herders!/s
The “Dirty Dozen”?
The average age in viet nam was 18.
Our American values have been lost.
We are now under tyranny.
The winds of civil war in the are strong these days Pelosi said so.
The average age in viet nam was 18.
Our American values have been lost.
We are now under tyranny.
The winds of civil war in the are strong these days Pelosi said so.
I’ll wait and see. This could be another assault on American integrity by Leftist Euro Human Rights organization(s).
Also it is well known the Afghan government uses all sorts of phony ploys to Blackmail the U.S. out of major dollars primarily claiming intentional hits on civilians.
With the Leftist turmoil now occuring around the globe there may be some scam involved to relieve the U.S. of some more capital.
No matter I want to see these Soldiers get a fair trial before I condemn them, or even think of our military in the light suggested by the accusation. I’m a Vet. I believe in our people until proven otherwise.
They are guilty by accusation.
BTW, exactly how do you tell from a photo that someone is an "innocent civilian?"
Other than the fact that somebody with an agenda called them that, I mean?
Time is not to distant when we all will have to start our own collections...
I wonder do they look just exactly like the ones Obomb a killed?