John Mekki
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This thread is about the (lack) of public indignation generated by the shooting of 20+ unarmed civilians in Iraq in 2005.
Again, this is not an anti-US tirade, just a simple question for the people who believe that the US justice system is any better than the Spain`s, Iraqi, Venezuelan, etc.
Also, I am not questioning the fact of whether the laws were followed during the trial or if the other laws were formally followed.
This is not the point.
The point I would like to make is why we had a US marine group that killed a number of unarmed, innocent civilians with none of them spent one day in jail and almost no US citizen, nor any citizen or the allied countries, made any fuss about it (save maybe few hundreds of people in a country of 300 million+).
As for the story itself, you can look here:
“The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. All those killed were civilians.[1] The dead included several children and elderly people, who were shot multiple times at close range while unarmed."
[..]
"By June 17, 2008, six defendants had had their cases dropped and a seventh found not guilty.[11] The exception was former Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich. On October 3, 2007, the Article 32 hearing investigating officer recommended that Wuterich be tried for negligent homicide in the deaths of two women and five children, and that charges of murder be dropped.[12] Further charges of assault and manslaughter were ultimately dropped, and Wuterich was convicted of a single count of negligent dereliction of duty on January 24, 2012.[13][14] Wuterich received a rank reduction and pay cut but avoided jail time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings#Trial_of_Wuterich
Now, I know that crimes of war appear during all wars and that crimes are committed by soldiers of all countries.
I also know that military justice is not justice at all in many countries.
My point is why we did not hear big news, I mean, really big news stories in most TV shows, etc. about this.
Why actors and politicians (starting from the President down, ..) did not openly condemn the fact that Sgt. Wuterich did not spend one night in jail?
Why no marches for justice, no protests, people were not angry against Wuterich, why?
Again, this is not an anti-US tirade, just a simple question for the people who believe that the US justice system is any better than the Spain`s, Iraqi, Venezuelan, etc.
Also, I am not questioning the fact of whether the laws were followed during the trial or if the other laws were formally followed.
This is not the point.
The point I would like to make is why we had a US marine group that killed a number of unarmed, innocent civilians with none of them spent one day in jail and almost no US citizen, nor any citizen or the allied countries, made any fuss about it (save maybe few hundreds of people in a country of 300 million+).
As for the story itself, you can look here:
“The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. All those killed were civilians.[1] The dead included several children and elderly people, who were shot multiple times at close range while unarmed."
[..]
"By June 17, 2008, six defendants had had their cases dropped and a seventh found not guilty.[11] The exception was former Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich. On October 3, 2007, the Article 32 hearing investigating officer recommended that Wuterich be tried for negligent homicide in the deaths of two women and five children, and that charges of murder be dropped.[12] Further charges of assault and manslaughter were ultimately dropped, and Wuterich was convicted of a single count of negligent dereliction of duty on January 24, 2012.[13][14] Wuterich received a rank reduction and pay cut but avoided jail time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings#Trial_of_Wuterich
Now, I know that crimes of war appear during all wars and that crimes are committed by soldiers of all countries.
I also know that military justice is not justice at all in many countries.
My point is why we did not hear big news, I mean, really big news stories in most TV shows, etc. about this.
Why actors and politicians (starting from the President down, ..) did not openly condemn the fact that Sgt. Wuterich did not spend one night in jail?
Why no marches for justice, no protests, people were not angry against Wuterich, why?
