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Originally Posted by BBKing
They were stealing humanitarian supplies, not firing mortars, which isn't in the same league. They were looters, not fighters, unless being hit by a bag of flour is particularly lethal.
The court martial will decide whether what they did broke the laws they are bound to obey as members of the armed forces.
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Well if they were stealing humanitarian aid that was meant for all people then they were **** anyway. What kind of idiot goes up against an army because they want something for nothing? To be honest if they got a good beating they were lucky, after all in lots of countries looters would be shot.
Terrorism did exist in Iraq before the war, it was called Saddam Hussain and his merry men. And they attrocities that occured there are still largely unknown. My heart does not bleed for the iraqis concerned and I believe that the soldiers do need to be disciplined, however I think court martial with pictures being released of their actions, even though they are still legally innocent is not right nor fair by the soldiers concerned.
What if they are found not guilty, in the eyes of the public they will be guilty, a picture tells a thousand stories or so theysay, however, these pictures and pictures in general capture a snapshot in time, you see neither the before nor the after.
Cant help how I feel, I just think that if you train soldiers to kill and fight, you cant blame them when things like this happen. It happens daily in HM prisons but its not headline news there is it?