From the article: 4 marines go into a house, kill 24 iraqis including 6 children the youngest 3 years old. A single 13 year old girl survived.
> "I saw that children were in the room kneeling down. I don't remember the exact number but only that it was a lot. I am trained to shoot two shots to the chest and two shots to the head and I followed my training,"
This is crazy.
What I don't understand - surely the US military not bringing these people to justice is intentional, but what is the reason? It's a stain on the brand of America, and what's the benefit?
in the wider context of wanting to sweep the whole thing under the rug (half a million killed in the iraq war), there's no stomach for it in the US and I don't think one or two prosecutions can salvage much good will
The (current) US government seems to like rewarding war criminals if there is any attention put on them at all. Expect pardons if it actually goes anywhere.
(OP) yes, the suffix clarifying it's a claim ("expert tells...") was too long for HN so I clipped it off and added the quotes. Leaving them off would have indicated a fact instead. Happy for any appropriate change to be made to better reflect the original title.
From the article: 4 marines go into a house, kill 24 iraqis including 6 children the youngest 3 years old. A single 13 year old girl survived.
> "I saw that children were in the room kneeling down. I don't remember the exact number but only that it was a lot. I am trained to shoot two shots to the chest and two shots to the head and I followed my training,"
This is crazy.
What I don't understand - surely the US military not bringing these people to justice is intentional, but what is the reason? It's a stain on the brand of America, and what's the benefit?
in the wider context of wanting to sweep the whole thing under the rug (half a million killed in the iraq war), there's no stomach for it in the US and I don't think one or two prosecutions can salvage much good will
The (current) US government seems to like rewarding war criminals if there is any attention put on them at all. Expect pardons if it actually goes anywhere.
The quotes aren't in the original title:
> Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC
(OP) yes, the suffix clarifying it's a claim ("expert tells...") was too long for HN so I clipped it off and added the quotes. Leaving them off would have indicated a fact instead. Happy for any appropriate change to be made to better reflect the original title.