yep. Imo its about time the 50 countries which americans have military bases in gets their own base in America.
"A Marine sergeant charged in the biggest criminal case against US troops in the Iraq war lost control of himself when he and his squad killed 24 Iraqis in one of the defining moments of the war, according to a military prosecutor.
Maj Nicholas Gannon made the accusations to a jury of battle-hardened Marines hearing the case against Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich more than six years after the squad committed the killings in the town of Haditha.
The victims included unarmed women and children."
There is a lot more to this story that what youre posting.
What the Haditha 8 did was terrible, but its not at all like the way youre describing it.
When I was in the Corp, that was going down, and it was a bullshit scenario.
The same Iraqi was building bombs and blowing up these guys squadmates right in front of them, but since he was hiding behind his family, they couldnt get authority to go in and take him out. He was building the bombs in his house. Day after day they saw this same guy trigger the bombs, kill Marines, then walk back into his house.
One day after watching one of their friends get blown up and this guy walking back into his house AGAIN, they just snapped. Went in the house and leveled everything, wife, kids, dog, and this dude.
Piece of shit used his family as a shield. Thats why they are all dead. Yeah, it was terrible for the Marines to kill those people, but it was equally bad for the man to use his family as a shield against the Marines.
Its really easy to condemn these peoples actions, but you dont know the circumstances behind it. Yeah, there is a lot of stupid shit Soldiers do, especially the Army, but situations like the one above just suck.