Hmm, I guess I am mostly alone on this, but I do support the death penalty and Murder is murder whether in the military or not. If those guys did as is reported and did not have orders to do what they did, then they are murderers.
I don't want my tax dollars supporting usless sacks of skin for the rest of their lives. Kinda like psychopath welfare ?
I agree murder is murder, and I think that there are clear-cut cases of psychopatic behavior on the part of some soldiers there. The case that most comes to mind to me, is the one where they watched, and then lay in wait for that 13 year old girl, murdered her family including a 6 year old sister, and gang raped her, and then murdered her too. I mean, come on.
However, in most cases that I have read about so far, I think a defense attorney could make the case that the rules of engagement came down the chain of command. And because that chain of command goes to Rumsfeld, I don't see any death penalty verdicts coming down. I wish we would understand that the fish rots from the head, and that we need to nail Rumsfeld, Gonzalaz, Yoo, all of the dirty gang there, on these acts. Because they did implictly if not explicitly, approve of them.
Either way, I don't support the death penality, but as always, when it involves a child, or children, and the story I detailed above does, I frankly don't really care. It's not like I would be on the march against it, in other words. Providing dna evidence, I've been moving slowly, over years, to the point where I just can't argue against it anymore. I think it's been some of the horror stories. 9 year old girls raped and then buried alive with their stuffed animals. How can I even pretend that if that were a little girl in my family I wouldn't kill him myself? It's not honest at some point.
But these other guys, no, I wouldn't support that. Not even for Rumsfeld. And I believe him to be a war criminal you know.
