Iraqi outrage over U.S. Marine's plea deal in Haditha killings (Barf Alert)

cnn.com ^ | 25Jan2012 | CNN Wire Staff

[ConorMacNessa]

Iraqis reacted with outrage Wednesday to news of a plea deal for a U.S. Marine squad leader charged in connection with the deaths of 24 people, in which he received a rank reduction and pay cut but avoided jail time.

The November 2005 killings in Haditha, Iraq, constituted one of the worst attacks on civilians by U.S. troops during the Iraq war. The deaths enraged Iraqis, put a spotlight on the conduct of the U.S. military and was compared to Vietnam's My Lai massacre by one congressman.

On Tuesday, Staff Sgt. Frank G. Wuterich was sentenced to a maximum of 90 days in prison, but avoided any time in the brig because of a plea deal. The military judge was obligated to abide by the arrangement between prosecutors and defense attorneys, which amounts to a reduction in rank -- to private -- and a pay cut.

"This court is unjust and its decision was unfair for Iraqi people," Shaeed Fakhri, a lecturer at Babel University in Hilla, said Wednesday as he visited Baghdad. "This soldier should be executed. The verdict is unfair and unjust for the innocent people who were killed in this incident."

[ConorMacNessa]

"The incident provoked the condemnation of the late Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, who compared it to the 1968 My Lai massacre, and then-President George W. Bush, who vowed that if an investigation showed Marines killed unarmed civilians, "there will be a punishment."

Talk about your basic rush to judgment.

This series of cases was nothing but a vendetta against a small group of brave Marines - all of whom, except SSgt. Wuterich, either were able to get a dismissal of all charges or an acquittal.

The Iraqi's have the unmitigated gall to complain about the fairness ofour judicial system.



Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

Has there ever been a day where the muzzies weren't outraged?

[boknows]

Eff ‘em all. The 24 are with their goats now.

[NakedRampage]

"The November 2005 killings in Haditha, Iraq, constituted one of the worst attacks on civilians by U.S. troops during the Iraq war. The deaths enraged Iraqis, put a spotlight on the conduct of the U.S. military and was compared to Vietnam's My Lai massacre by one congressman."

Reeeal impartial reporting.

[colorado tanker]

This is a joke, because according to the Iraqi law, all those soldiers should be executed.

Would that be the same law that says Iraqis should release terrorists who kill American civilians once they are remanded to Iraqi custody?

[jazusamo]

I wonder why CNN didn't ask all those outraged Iraqis why a 12 year old girl in Haditha covered her ears because she knew an IED was going to go off. Seems like the whole town knew.

excerpt:

"I was planning to go to school. I was about to go out of bed. I knew the bomb would explode so I covered my ears," the youngster said, according to a CNN translator.

Haditha Child: I Knew of Bomb Plot to Kill Marines

[butterdezillion]

As is John Murtha.

Maybe the Iraqi people deserve to be abandoned to their own depravity.

Then again, maybe the US deserves to be abandoned to our own depravity. CNN being a prime example.

[RedEyeJack]

There was a fire fight and people got killed. The Marines did not start it but they did finish it, only losing one man. This is the same town where the locals seized the police (who were left when the Marines pulled out the first time to fight in Fallujah) took them to the bridge connecting Fallujah and Barwana and proceed to saw off their heads while “the people” celebrated. This is the same town where the Al Queda operatives kidnapped ten policemen in 2006 and left their bodies (minus heads) in the soccer stadium in Baijii. It was a nasty war and the Marines had rules... The enemy didn't. They killed indiscriminately but they couldn't fight. We fought and killed only when we had to.

[Jeff Chandler]

Hey Iraqis:

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[Venturer]

CNN takes the side of the Iraqui’s against our soldiers.

Nothing new there.

By the way, The Iraqui’s can shove their anger up their buttocks.

[righttackle44]

Iraqi outrage over U.S. Marine's plea deal in Haditha killings (Barf Alert) cnn.com

Yeah? Well, I'm outraged that CNN ignored the blood and horror going on in Sadaam's Iraq so they could keep their Baghdad bureau open.