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Haditha Charges Dropped
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This story comes to you courtesy of a link in the Entertainment Forum where we've been talking about the film Battle For Haditha.
I'd like to say how surprised I am by this news, but I am not.
I will defend "collateral damage" because it's part of war. It happens. Mistakes are part and parcel. But when you read about this story you can only really get the feeling that this was cold blooded murder of the worst kind.
Seriously, what are the US military up to?
I'd like to say how surprised I am by this news, but I am not.
I will defend "collateral damage" because it's part of war. It happens. Mistakes are part and parcel. But when you read about this story you can only really get the feeling that this was cold blooded murder of the worst kind.
Seriously, what are the US military up to?
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They can't just have been wearing the same uniform or in the area - they need to actually have done it.
Now like all investigations in what is a war zone they can be a bugger to prove - simply because the police can't secure the crime scene and witnesses may be on the other side, scared of retaliation, refugees or dead.
That said it may have been a poor initial investigation, because at first no-one in the MP questioned that it was anything than what was claimed.
In reality it matters not what I think, its not my heart and mind the US needs to win.
To be fair looking at the comment -
'The investigator overseeing L/Cpl Tatum's pre-trial hearing had recommended the dropping of all charges on the grounds that he shot at the children because another marine, Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich, was already firing. '
It doesn't look in doubt that he shot children but more that he's been offered immunity in return for giving evidence against Sgt Wuterich - despite the fact that's been denied.
Hopefully there still remains some case to face, although anyone higher up responsible for the apparant collapse in discipline and morale is clearly never going to be held responsible.