Reply #14: Were those two Iraqi men [View All]

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presumed innocent until proven guilty?
What were the charges?
Was Tigris the judge in a trial by water?

Those soldiers inflicted the death penalty upon that kid.
Turn about is fair play.

I have not forgotten what their brothers-in-arms did in Somalia.

The attack on Mogadishu was particularly vicious. Quoting Bowden: "The Task Force Ranger commander, Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison, testifying before the Senate, said that if his men had put any more ammunition into the city 'we would have sunk it.' Most soldiers interviewed said that through most of the fight they fired on crowds and eventually at anyone and anything they saw."
http://www.rense.com/general18/blackhawk.htm

On its first mission, the force inadvertently arrested nine Somalian United Nations employees. A later mission arrested a friendly Somalian general who was being groomed by the United Nations to take over a Mogadishu police force. But by late September, the task force had begun to hit its stride with the capture of Osman Atto, Aidid's banker. The deadly Oct. 3 raid was the sixth and last.
Most of the Rangers who fought were only a few years out of high school. These young men were shocked to find themselves bleeding on the dirt streets of an obscure African capital for a cause so unessential that President Clinton called off their mission the day after the fight.
http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp

Bring 'em home.
John Stebbins could use a few cellmates.