The way I see it, it is impossible for there to be any "bad actors" in a hot battle zone where there has been an ambush that resulted in one Marine getting killed and others wounded, and gunfire erupting from nearby houses. Puckett seems to be shrugging that, yeah, maybe "war crimes" were committed, but since all them other court martials were never pursued by the prosecutors, we'll never know for sure. He just dumped on everybody.
I can't get over that.
I'm sure you speak for most of us.
I hear you, he did dump on everyone. I doubt anyone who’s followed this will get over it.
I don’t think it’ll come as a surprise that lawyers for the other defendants are pissed in a major way.
One e-mailed, “I thought our collective efforts were aimed at demonstrating the truth of the matter: that war is hell and innocents will unfortunately die, especially when their homes are used as firing positions. I didn’t understand we were interested in Iraqi concerns about justice and I didn’t understand that the true injustice in these cases was that our clients had their charges dismissed. Now I get it.”