While these guys deserve to be punished for murder, I hold Bush ultimately accountable for sending our troops into an unneccessary immoral war, in a hostile land, giving them an almost impossible task with too few troops in the beginning. Frankly, I'm impressed with our troops: I'm suprised more of them haven't snapped in this pressure-cooker Bush has put them unneccessarily:
Squad Leader Charged in Killings of 24 Iraqi Civilians
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Eight Marines were charged Thursday in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians last year during a bloody, door-to-door sweep in the town of Haditha that came after one of their comrades was killed by a roadside bomb.
In the biggest U.S. criminal case involving civilian deaths to come out of the Iraq war, four of the Marines -- all enlisted men -- were charged with unpremeditated murder.
The other four were officers who were not there during the killings but were accused of failures in investigating and reporting the deaths.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/...&en=b2919b60123f74e9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Squad Leader Charged in Killings of 24 Iraqi Civilians
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Eight Marines were charged Thursday in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians last year during a bloody, door-to-door sweep in the town of Haditha that came after one of their comrades was killed by a roadside bomb.
In the biggest U.S. criminal case involving civilian deaths to come out of the Iraq war, four of the Marines -- all enlisted men -- were charged with unpremeditated murder.
The other four were officers who were not there during the killings but were accused of failures in investigating and reporting the deaths.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/...&en=b2919b60123f74e9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
