Do you believe the soldiers charged for killing innocent people will not be sent to Prison?

Question

I say they will have nothing to worry about. Look at the My Lai masacre. The troops all walked away free. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/lai/dark_5.html

Answer 1

Sure they will but anybody of higher power will not be punished.

Answer 2

Soldiers have license to kill people if killing people is necessary to accomplish the orders of their commanding officer. The only thing that matters to a soldier is the orders of his or her commanding officer. If in killing innocent people, a soldier disobeys the orders of his commanding officer, he is subject to court martial, and the military should decide his fate. If in killing innocent people the soldier is following orders, then the commanding officer is responsible, and if HIS superiors do not approve, HE must pay the penalty.

Soldiers cannot be called to make individual decisions of conscience. If they did, the chain of command would not function and our military would be much less effective. When soldiers enlist in the military, the first thing the military does is "break" them. The soldier must live to follow orders without questioning to preserve the effectiveness of the military.

I think soldiers should avoid killing innocent people if at all possible, and a soldier doing so either needlessly or against orders should be punished by the military (prison or whatever). But a soldier killing innocent people who is ORDERED to do so or who MUST do so to accomplish his or her orders is not responsible for those deaths.

EDIT: I do not know if the military has a standing policy forbidding killing innocent people. If so, then a soldier doing so would seem to be culpable in all circumstances, unless someone with enough authority made some sort of pre-meditated exception.

Answer 3

It is irresponsible to train men to the highest levels of fighting efficiency & then condemn them (usually instigated by the totally corrupt media press i.e. screw the boys - we wan't a story) for alledged murder or whatever. It is the Media Press that is at fault & should be dealt with under the severest laws either civil or military. Conversely, when are all the topline chat shows going to get up and throw the book at the press? Oprehey, Larry etc, where are you? Or are you too timid to act? I.e. almost all the newscaster offenders are women! Not ever forgetting Jane Fonda!

Answer 4

I think this is a bunch of crap because as soldiers if at any point your life becomes in any way shape of form in danger your are to eliminate the threat. The soldiers obviously felt in danger because there is a lot of training you go through before you even make it to "The Sandbox". I think charges should be dropped, will they who knows because sadly we just look for PR. Not saying thats wrong because I'm not the president and i dont know what he deals with on a daily basis.

Answer 5

If a Soldier Murders someone, they will be sentenced to Leavenworth Military Prison.

Answer 6

Remember innocent until proven guilty. If proven guilty then they deserve prison.

Remember also the mass graves there...that is a much bigger scale of killing innocent people.

Answer 7

if convicted, they will serve their time in prison at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. It is the only max. security prison left in the U.S. military since they closed Portsmith Naval prison in the 1970's.

Answer 8

If they are deemed not guilty they go free.If found guilty I believe the military has the right to execute them.

Answer 9

I think they will go to jail for what they did

Answer 10

no