[GeronL]

If all the contractors quit today, the US would be in a heap of a mess

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t remember all the particulars about this case.

If the guys are guilty, then I’m glad. If they were railroaded, I am not.

[Mariner]

This story leaves me wondering, did they shoot 14 unarmed civilians and what reason did they cite for doing so?

And, what possible reason could anyone have that would free them from murder laws?

Maybe there is one. Let's hear it.

[marron]

These guys were operating under nearly impossible circumstances, being in a war while civilian life goes on simultaneously. Being surrounded by “civilian” insurgents firing on them, cops who were also firing on them, car bomb attacks, suicide attacks. All this during a commute surrounded by commuters.

Were the insurgents tried? The turn-coat cops? The suicide attackers?

You can’t litigate war in civilian courts. You must not. If it is something that could be settled by lawyers and civilian judges then quite frankly you aren’t at war.

They should have been tried by military court if they were tried at all.

[DoodleDawg]

Prince said Thursday that the case should have been tried by the military under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a different system of laws that is administered by military officers.

But they weren't in the military.