>>Steele told his men to “kill all military-age males,” and had the Rangers complied to the letter, there would be a lot more dead than there were.<<
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>>Only excess caution by Colonel Steele’s troops spared the Iraqi civilians from being shot, General Maffey wrote in his report. […]<<
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>>Steele is a maggot, a pathetic excuse for a man who is so concerned with his own career and his own image that he was pleading the fifth, retaining O.J Simpson attorneys, and negotiating for immunity while his own men, one of whom he had worked very closely with, were facing the death penalty for his screwup. Meanwhile, the Army, knowing the state of affairs, helped him do it.<<
Related story to the Haditha Marine travesty, this one about young Rangers hung out to dry.