Posted on 04/13/2015 3:12:02 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
This would have been better served trial by peers. Unless someone has combat experience, they are not qualified to judge.
Unbelievable, Just one more reason for Obama to start waving the white flag of surrender. God help us when this jerk starts the next war with Iran.
If my memory serves me correctly this is the same judge that tossed aside all challenges to the eligibility of Obama to be POTUSA. The guy has been bought and trained to be a kisser for Obama and such ilk. He is deserving of the ‘Mussolini’ treatment.
Who do you think was running the Justice Department when these guys were charged?
What you said......
These guys rode shotgun for us on more than one occasion (GZ 04-07).
I’d cut them a ton of slack before I said they panicked or were evil.
Thank you for your service.
To my information (the information that is available here in Europe and that is not always correct) they simply shot 17 unarmed civillians. What is not standing in the Article of Stars and Stripes: There was a principal witness, Jeremy P. Ridgeway from Blackwater that testified against his companions and pleaded guilty in manslaugter.
Therefore the judge had good evidence for his verdict.
After WW2 we Europeans (espechially Germans) got the same lesson. Some of our soldiers (and not only mercaneries like in this case) did things beyond our imagination. In a review I have to say that many of them got away because our people reacted like some you react today. There were exactly the same excuses: False orders, war situation etc. pp. In the 1950ties with growing German political influence they got away with a few years of prision. After all I have to say it would have been better to have them all hanged up. I had the privilege to know some of their victims and to know some of them personally. Believe me that our planet is a better place without such war criminals.
From a European point of view it is understandable that the judge abstained from capital punishment, since we usually dismiss punishment that has its only justification in satisfaction (the idea of justice in this point between Europe and the US is quite different in the meantime).
Personally I fully understand the sentence.
Regards from Europe
Andreas
Your boy Obama and his Liar General Eric Holder.
Charges were,brought against them in 2008.
Which they BEAT, They were Dismissed before trial, ERIC HOLDER and the Justus dept, appealed and re indicted.
Yes, and that is what prosecutors do when a case is dismissed as jeopardy is not attached.
If they had beat the case, there could not have been another trial.
Beyond any merits of this case, the growing use of mercenaries in lieu of American soldiers in combat roles is a very bad idea. It certainly doesn’t make economic sense to use highly paid civilian contractors as substitutes for much lower paid soldiers. So why do we do it? Soldiers are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and are more strictly accountable for their actions to their chains of command. I suspect that the real motive for using so many mercenaries is the fact that mercenaries are NOT subject to the UCMJ and they are much LESS accountable for their actions to the military chains of command.
This one is squarely on Condi Rice. She was SoS at the time and promised the Iraqis that these guys would be served over on a platter, no matter what it took.
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