[Grimmy]

Notice how they make the dead insurgent out to be just an innocent old Iraqi cop.

After all that’s leaked out about how these Marines were treated while confined for interrogation, it’s no wonder so many of them broke and confessed, even if they hadn’t done anything wrong.

With all that’s come out about the NCIS and the complicity of the JAG in many cases, is there any reason to trust that this or any case against our Marines and Soldiers from Iraq is based on real true fact or any concept of legal justice?

[bboop]

This guy is not out of the woods yet, is he? Good grief!

[secretagent]

I wonder what reasons the jurors had in not convicting. Thomas pulled the first trigger. He apparently planned the whole action, along with Sgt Hutchins.

Sounds like premeditated murder to me:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20070717-2143-bn17thomas.html

[Dubya]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Repeated exposure to bomb blasts may have impaired the judgment of a Marine corporal charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi civilian, an expert in war-related brain injuries told a military court Monday.

Thomas, who was on his third combat tour in Iraq, had been exposed to more than 25 bomb blasts that would have "rung his bell," said Maria Mouratidis, head of the traumatic stress and brain injury program at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

[Grimmy]

A question that just occured to me. Hamdania was a fairly hostile area at the time. How was it that a single squad of Marines were out and about, wondering around in the dark, unsupported and unaccompanied?

Were Marines allowed to leave their area, compound, FOB, whatever, and wander around the AO all on their own?

Nothing about this makes any real sense. Especially the consistently inconsistent “eye witness testimony”.

Here’s a bit more on the insurgent thing:
http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/Hamdania/DefendOurMarines.htm