Yes, and the perps were caught, tried and convicted. There are criminals in all walks of life. In this case, we caught them and dealt with them.
Bringing it up at every opportunity does nothing but hurt the morale of our troops and works to undermine what little popular support for the war that's left in this country. Why mention that event in the context of this story? Are you trying to undermine support for the war? Are you trying to hurt the morale of our troops? Are you trying to portray the typical American soldier as a murdering rapist?
Yes, I know there are criminals in all walks of life—I even pointed out that the very same thing just happened in Connecticut, by two “ex”-prisoners. The writer of this piece for NRO made the point he wanted to make,and unless I missed something, he blithely implied that the atrocity I cited and we all recognized never existed. Why wasn’t his piece more, uh, “balanced”? And I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume your accussatory questions at the end were just rhetorical, you know, the ones where you imply that I’m “trying to portray the typical American soldier as a murdering rapist”,etc.etc.
You can’t really be serious about that,can you? That kind of bullying crap just means that you both did NOT understand what I wrote, and don’t think you need to , because you’re on the “right side” of the issue, and I’m on the “wrong” side. Read it again, in light of that, and read the other reply to someone else which I believe it just above or below your current post. Thank you.