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Originally Posted by sleepyhead4
Give me a break. This isn't about how jacked up our UCMJ system is or not. It's about someone, an officer in the US Army, killing an unarmed prisoner. Because I am not intimately familiar with the case, I won't make judgment. However, I was at the base/city that this occurred at. This is still a hot topic that the locals talk about. And I'm sure it'll be brought up again for the benefit of the bad guys.
We are all responsible for our actions, whether the intentions were good or bad. So the LT is responsible for taking a prisoner away from the convoy to a culvert for an unauthorized interrogation, which eventually led to the killing. And his chain of command should be held liable for allowing this situation to happen by having this LT take custody of someone who was responsible for the deaths of his men. It's a lose lose situation.
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Too true and I agree. Maybe you can shed some light where the media has me in the dark. It was implied in one article that the dead POS's family had control of the crime scene and the body for 10 hours before Iraqi police took evidence. Do the Iraqi police normally contribute to military investigations ? I'm trying to gauge what weight such evidence would hold. Maybe I'm just biased against the Iraqi PD.
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