Quote:
Originally posted by V8killimports
Regardless of whether this was a mercy killing or not, you just cannot do that. I don't know the full details of what happened, or whether it was really a mercy killing, but there has to be some sort of order in war, and what he did was a war crime. The fact that Graner got 10 years makes me happy.
|
Exactly. If you want to take a moral high road (and don't we always love doing that?), you have to hold yourself to a higher standard than the enemy. The fact that this guy only got a year in jail is just insulting. I'm not sure if this is the same guy from the video I saw (excluding the part where he actually pulled the trigger, of course), but I think it is. Remember...people in the U.S. aren't the only ones who saw that video.
Ben...if this is the same guy, he shot the Iraqi point blank. The guy was barely moving. There's just no excuse for that. As much as I hate this war, I don't think "fuck Iraq" will quite solve our problems. While I firmly believe that people looked us straight in the eye and lied to us about the reasons, I don't think it's for oil. War takes people's minds off of things...and we had a great set up for a war that we didn't finish before.
__________________
1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said
Anna Fan Club President/Dictator
Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
Welcome to the new Amerika
Last edited by GT40FIED : 01-16-2005 at 06:44 PM.
|