When an army prosecutes its own soldiers for killing the enemy in battle, based on testimony of enemy ‘witnesses’, you know that a mental disease is involved. The enemy deploys women and children as both combatants and shields. Islamists are weaned on the art of takiyya (deceit). Yet the depraved Generals permit this travesty to go on. Soldiers are thrown in the dungeons, dragged through a legal mine field, and forced to defend their survival skills to a hostile media. The Generals should be put on trial and, if found guilty, executed. That would be a morale booster for the troops.
The insanity has not infected the entire command structure. Lt. Col. Paul Ware, the hearing officer in the murder trial case of Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt, introduced a bit of sanity into the proceedings. Officer Advises Against Trial for Marine:
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The government’s case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to a court-martial and should be dropped, a hearing officer determined.
Prosecutors allege Sharratt and other members of his battalion carried out a revenge-motivated assault on Iraqi civilians that left 24 dead after a roadside bomb killed a fellow Marine nearby.
Sharratt contends the Iraqi men he confronted were insurgents and at least one was holding an AK-47 rifle when he fired at them.
Unfortunately, prosecutors, eager to gain notoriety, will probably ignore Lt. Col. Ware’s recommendations, and keep persecuting the fine young men who fought heroically in Haditha to defend us against a crafty and vicious enemy.
