U.S. military sees hurdles in rape trial

AP via Yahoo ^ | July 16, 2006 | RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer

[af_vet_1981]

Show me the "confessions".

Why ?

You would still defend these perps.

[muawiyah]

You can't come up with any confessions ~ doesn't mean such things don't exist, but so far no one has seen them ~ just stories.

Now, come up with a crime ~ show me the crime ~

[af_vet_1981]

You can't come up with any confessions ~ doesn't mean such things don't exist, but so far no one has seen them ~ just stories. Now, come up with a crime ~ show me the crime ~

May the sin and crime which you mock stick to your soul for all eternity.

[muawiyah]

Sounds to me like you are on "the other side". Absent a crime, absent confessions, absent an investigation, absent very much information about this case at all, it is still much too early to be condemning anybody for anything.

[Just A Nobody]

It appears Mu'tha may have a screen name, or two.

[ArmyTeach]

I actually believe there may be substance to this case, but the Iraqis don't understand that our system of justice demands hard evidence. No he said-she said shouting match. No evidence, no conviction. The Iraqis want our soldiers stripped of their immunity from trial by international court so that they could be found guilty in a kangaroo court. We can't send our soldiers into combat and then when the situation warrants deny them a fair trial.

[jazusamo]

Yes, or there are some that subscribe to his interpretation of our justice system here.

It is unbelievable to me that there are those that are willing to abandon our justice system because of a supposed atrocity for those that risk their lives to protect that system and our way of life.

[Just A Nobody]

We can't send our soldiers into combat and then when the situation warrants deny them a fair trial.

willing to abandon our justice system because of a supposed atrocity

The willingness to throw our troops overboard is very disturbing.