Why are our troops getting charged with murder when our troops are getting mutilated?

Answer 1

it is so dam stupid man .

Answer 2

This has been a hot button for me. NO ONE sitting here in a cushy spot in the US has ANY right AT ALL to tell someone there how to do their job. This is not a game. The opponent DOES NOT CARE who they kill. There is no rules. Rules are for civilized people and the barbaric vile cowards doing this are not civilized. They whine when a dog intimidates them, the world is outraged by photos. Where is the world's outrage at the mutilation and killing of troops and innocents? Where is the cry for charges for their people...oh that's right they haven't been caught! There has been so much positive done over there - but the few wanting lawlessness to return feed on fear. There's the headlines about the person not stopping and being killed who turned out to be a pregnant woman. No matter what language waving arms means stop - someone doesn't heed that warning and in the heat of the moment with seconds to make a decision IMO they did the right thing. The charges should cease immediately - there are no laws for the opponents and our troops try to abide by a code that they don't.

Answer 3

The old two wrongs don't make a right is applicable to this tragic question. The Marines facing murder charges are accused of killing 15-20 unarmed woman and children and to make terms worse covered it up and lied. The stress of seeing your friends and fellow soldiers killed daily is the rational and excuse or vindication for the horrific act, but not good enough. When we start to justify killing innocent people we have a more serious problem festering, we devalue life. If it where you and one of your family members would you feel differently, YES you would. My heart is with both victims , the tragic innocence and the burned out over worked young men that fight to protect our freedom. This is yet another indicator it is time to bring our troops home NOW!

Answer 4

If the troops are blowing away the people that are doing the mutilation, they do not get charged with anything.

What you can't have them doing is blowing away anything that moves.

If we find a person doing the mutilation we drop a freaking bomb or two on their head. And blow away anybody in the house with them (shrug). Oh well.

But going in and grabbing a random person, and blowing their head off is murder, and that is why they are being charged.

Yeah, I understand the stress involved. But you can't do that, or you might as well claim to own the country, and we are not doing that.

This is only going to get worse you know.

Thanks George, you MF.

Answer 5

Just becuase everyone around you is breaking laws, it doesn't give you the right to sink to their level.

That's the simple answer.

In the real world, or at least the military world, when it doubt, set the weapon on "burst", aim at their feet and pull the trigger. The first shot will hit right in front of their feet, the next one at crotch level and the third one right through their head. Opps. "I was just firing a warning shot." Better getting stuck doing paper work for a questionable kill than coming home in a body bag.

If soldiers are using innocent civilians for target practice, they need to be punished.

However, in Iraq if there is a civilian acting funny in any way, refusing to stop, in an off limits area, etc, a soldier really has no choice but to take a shot. I would.

Answer 6

Some of are troops did kill Innocent civilians which is against United States of America's rules. We are in Iraq to help the people, not kill them. Its also terrible that are troops are being tortured and mutilated. The people committing these crimes against our troops should be hunted down and pay for the crimes they committed. What I don't understand is why are they killing our troops that are there to save their people. My best answer is that the are ignorant.

Answer 7

Those terrorists are very very well trained actors. They are quick to throw the USA a video every step of the war. They know many Americans love a good drama, so they plant traps and then OUR soldiers walk into it with video cams watching them and then edited for broadcasting to their liking. Think, what if you walked in on a dead body with no knowledge of a hidden camera, then the next thing you know, you are on the news shown hovering over a dead body? Well guess what? That is what is going on over there to our troops. America has Hollywood. India has Ballywood. The terrorists have Terrorwood.

Answer 8

Murder is Murder no matter who does it. War is pointless because each side think they are right. Who is right? The soldier that kills another soldier although they are on opposite sides? Which side is the right side? Why should people get away with killing innocent civilians - women and children? Can these women and children kill that soldier that threatens to kill them? If the table was reversed what do you think Americans would do to Iranian soldiers who stormed an American city and took out Women and Children and killed them? Just because it is not in America does not make any less horrifying. People are people no matter what their religion, culture, colour of their skin or where they live. Murder is Murder and people who kill with killing in their minds especially innocent women and children should be punished accordingly. Man's inhumanity to man will ultimately be their demise.

Answer 9

None of this has anything to do with compassion or fairness or even "civilized" warfare (an oxymoron, if ever there was one). Our guys are getting charged because ours is a civil society and the premeditated murder of women, elderly & children has no place here, even in a time of war.
As far as the other side goes, they did what they did to those two poor guys in the hopes that we'll react predictably (violently & senselessly) so they can point to us, call us aggressors, infidels and barbarians, and justify their own murderous actions.
Notice any pointless, circular logic here? yeah, me too.

Answer 10

Yea, Our troops are trained to kill and being sent to a hellish area to fight. They should be given medals of honor for killing all the foreigners they can.
Our own country does not support our troops....pretty sad.
If I was in charge, that whole middle east would have been blown to hell years ago, and our gas prices would be at a reasonable rate.

Answer 11

I know how you feel. Look at it like this. War is a stupid thing. People do them because they're really driven to it. So long as they have to, they have to prosecute a war within strictures. When it's over, you try the guys that didn't and prosecute them as war criminals. Okay?

Finally, wars, are a punishment. On a country, a people, or an entire planet based on their natures and how badly they transgress in evil doing. You're looking at both the history of the world and humanity in a nutshell.