Four U.S. soldiers charged of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl and her family including parents & sister. One of the soldiers, 23-year-old Army Spec. James P. Barker, told an Army criminal investigator that after the killings he poured kerosene on the girl's bullet-ridden body, according to testimony in August at a military hearing. The girl's father, mother and five-year-old sister were also killed, according to military officials. CNN Reports www.cnn.com
My Questions is that it is not the Human Right Violation? Can these britual acts will bring dmocracy in Iraq & love for the Americans ?
These army perosnnel should be hanged as these are destroying whole image of Americans.
2006-10-18 18:04:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
These acts are crimes and you may notice that they are being charged with the crime because the US Military does not tolerate such acts.
I agree with you that they should be hanged, I personally think they should be publicly executed in Iraq if found guilty.
But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (the set of laws those still in the military will be charged with) they will more likely get a long prison sentence (possibly with hard labor, we still have that), or lethal injection if they are sentenced to death.
2006-10-18 23:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by MP US Army 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War creates bad things to happen. These men most likely would have gone down this road eventually anyway and will be dealt with as such. Even bad people can get into the military but no one in their right minds will condemn the whole because of a few.
2006-10-18 18:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Rick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a human rights violaton, it is also a war crime. As for some of the respondees saying it is "old news", it is not old news to the Iraqis I speak to (this happened in our area SW of Baghdad). Nor was it old news for Tucker and Menchaca, whose "trial" and murder was retaliation for this act. We are still feeling the efects of their actions, even months later. I agree that Barker, Green, Cortez and the others should receive the death penalty.
2006-10-18 19:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by adrianne 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no excuse for this kind of behavior! Our military men and women are very stressed out and miss home. A lot of them need to be counselled when they come back from war....I think sometimes a handful of our military get angry and take it out on anyone who is nearby,in most cases it is an innocent family....They should be punished for their crime, not for destroying Americas image!
2006-10-18 18:37:29 · answer #4 · answered by ~MEEEOW~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Americans are violative of laws and should be dealt with accordingly. The image of USA is being blemished by just a few bad men.
2006-10-18 18:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This four U.S. soldiers aren't human but animals just hang this idiots. If this was done to your family how would you feel.
2006-10-18 18:19:59 · answer #6 · answered by mb5000ns 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are claiming they were suffering from stress and psychological disorders -- the way Foley did.
2006-10-18 18:15:13 · answer #7 · answered by Reba K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
somehow they got caught and put in the spotlight .. but im sure daily horrors are going on in iraq against civilians ... whats the latest unofficial estimate? 655,000 dead civilians? im sure every one is a story ....
2006-10-18 18:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Number one, you are spewing public information made available by our military.
Number two, our government is the one prosecuting these azsholes.
Bad people exist everywhere.
2006-10-18 18:09:39 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly T 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They have been punished, one did himself in, and her name was Abeer Qassim Hamza.
2016-05-21 02:25:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋