Greg writes:

> Debate all you want to about whether the US should be in Iraq, but leave
> this honorable young Marine out of it.

And this is the point where the bullshit really rises. There was nothing
honorable at all about what the Marine did. He committed nothing less than murder.
While it may be the ultimate fiction that war can be conducted under an
internationally sanctioned set of rules, nevertheless under the existing rules, he
committed a war crime and should be fully prosecuted for it, perhaps spending
a significant portion of his life in prison as a result.

The distance between his actions and those of the American soldiers at My Lai
is tissue thin, and none of it comes close to being honorable.

Wirt Atmar

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