[RedRover]

New York Daily News on the Evan Vela case!

[jazusamo]

"I'd have killed them," he said, referring to the shepherds in Afghanistan. He told me the code is "like the Ten Commandments, short and sweet and subject to interpretation."

Cmndr. Richard Marcinko is right, IMO.

Evan Vela made a wrenching but necessary decision. He is not a murderer.

Amen! and he is still alive, but no charges should have been filed.

[Girlene]

From the article,

Our military should have told the Iraqi government "that sometimes there are hard choices that have to be made" and that civilians will sometimes be killed, Vela's attorney, James Culp, told me.

Instead, Iraq's Human Rights Minister attended the trial and made it clear what she expected. From Times:

Iraq's Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, however, does not see the case as either a justified kill or a horrific accident by an exhaustion-impaired soldier. She was attending today's proceedings, she told TIME, because, "I want to be sure that any American soldier who wrongs an Iraqi will go on trial. [Vela] killed an Iraqi man, an unarmed man. He must be punished."