[Lancey Howard]

Okay. I just watched the whole thing (it's about 6 minutes long) and I want to throw up.

Neal Puckett is interviewed here by your typical ditzy liberal cow who seems perturbed that 24 people died and... "nobody is going to jail?" During this interview Puckett makes it sound like he was convinced they could win the case, BUT.... Wuterich pled out because, "He wanted to take responsibility" for the tragedy that day, and the actions of his Marines! He made it sound like Frank has been harboring a guilty conscience this whole freaking time and gave himself up like a martyr when he didn't really have to! NOT ONCE does Puckett state the obvious - - that the deaths of those people must be laid solely at the feet of the terrorist insurgents who ambushed the passing convoy and killed LCpl Terrazas. Period. Freaking PERIOD. If the fix was indeed in, I gottta wonder about Puckett.

"Had all the Marines involved gone to trial, some measure of justice might have been achieved ... and perhaps the government would have seen - - if there were bad actors that day - - who those bad actors were." - Neal Puckett

I can't take this anymore.

[brityank]

I agree, Lancy; I have little regard for most lawyers and this interview did nothing to assuage that.

Even the article smooth put up from Jonathan F. Keiler on American Thinker had this at the end:

America's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (as with Israel's in Gaza) have been wars of relatively low intensity, against generally incompetent adversaries, which has allowed our forces to play around with operational law concepts without catastrophic consequences. Almost certainly soldiers and Marines have died or been unnecessarily maimed due to adherence to complex and unrealistic rules of engagement. But those are small tragedies that would be difficult to prove.