War is hell, sometimes innocents get killed. If these marines were ambushed and were taking fire from this house or suspected the terrorists were in that house they had the right and duty to go dig them out. But there have been all kind of statements made about the little girl who said she knew the IED was going to go off. How did she know that? Was it one of her family members that planted it. I know from experience, having worked in Iraq, that these people will lie. They have even killed civilians and then tried blaming it on our soldiers. Even doctors have told the media of hundreds of people being killed by allied strikes and after fire fights. When it was checked out they found it was a lie.. And we are going to try and sentence our marines on the words of these people?
I agree with you 110%. I was just trying to say that I believe that if our soldiers were treated in a manner inconsistent with the Geneva Conventions, I think they absolutely have a leg to stand on with this defense (in response to another post.) That this case has even gotten this far, to me, is an outrage.