Re: Blackwater: Did anyone hear this???
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There was nothing closed door about it. You misread my point. The point is, these guys are constantly accused of crimes, and always cleared.
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Actually there was the incident with the 17 dead Iraqis where both the Iraq investigation, the military investigation & the subsequent FBI investigation found that 14 of those 17 deaths were inexcusable.
But it is very unclear if they can be prosecuted. And that is unfortunate. Do something similar as an soldier and you risk spending a good bit of time in Leavenworth. Now if an incident like that alone is enough to warrant huge wide accusation of BW behavior is very doubtful. Incidents like this do (unfortunately) happen in war.
What isn't excusable is if they walk because there isn't even the OPTION to prosecute, _then_ someone messed up.
War is a bad thing and when even worse things happen, we need the ability to punish the transgressors of rules of engagement to stop it from escalating into something very, very bad.
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