That’s under the assumption he was telling the truth. Again, from the 60 Minutes transcripts as well as the investigation itself, I don’t believe him. Regardless he admitted guilt, was punished and is now nothing more than an asterisk of the Iraq War.
Actually, he didn’t admit guilt. He admitted guilt to a particular, lesser charge called negligent dereliction of duty, and that was related to the “shoot first questions later” scenario. If precision is to be the standard, then let’s be precise.
There was nothing in the interviews that was different.
At no place does he admit rampaging through buildings indiscriminately killing Iraqis he knew to be innocent civilians.