(Fred the Red Shirt) wrote in message . com...
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"Yardpilot" wrote in message news:yEIkc.6651$Ik.592666@attbi_s53...
"Morton Davis" wrote in message
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Where are the videos of Americans cheering in the streets over what
happened, like the supporters ofd the "insurgents" when they hung the burned
bodies of our dead from bridges? There are none because we are not cheering.

If something like this happens, we crack down on the perpetrators. Few if any
people celebrate such things. It seems we worry more about people in other
countries than we do our own when it comes to abuse of authority.

Feel free to prove your assertion.

Here's proof of how the Bush Administration cracked down BEFOR photos
were published:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=518258

In Washington, an army official revealed that one US soldier
was convicted of murder for shooting a prisoner to death in
September 2003 at a detention centre in Iraq, and that another
prisoner was killed at the Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad
two months later by a private contractor working for the CIA.

The soldier - convicted by court martial - was thrown out
of the service but did not serve time in jail. The official
said that the soldier shot the prisoner after he had thrown
stones at him. The serviceman was found to have used excessive
force. No action was taken against the CIA contractor because
the military had no legal jurisdiction.

OTOH, Reuters reported that the soldier was convicted of murder for
killing the prisoner with a stone. It seems we need the text of the
actua DOD news release.

Would you care to post it for us?

Is there a DOD news release? I don't believe everything that is
written in a newspaper to be "proof" of anything. A court martial
convicted someone of MURDER without serving time? I'd like to see
what Reuters is calling a murder conviction. Using excessive force
under certain circumstances would be unlawful, but that would not
always equate to "murder" in the legal sense. This guy may have been
convicted for a crime that caused a death, i.e. manslaulter,
negligence, etc. But I'd bet it was inaccurate to express or imply a
conviction for the crime of "murder" resulted in a discharge only.