If the facts dictate, it should be tried in an Afghan court.
Agree 100%. This was not an act of war but of murder. Therefore, the alleged attacker should be before an Afghan court.
If the facts dictate, it should be tried in an Afghan court.
Agree 100%. This was not an act of war but of murder. Therefore, the alleged attacker should be before an Afghan court.
The same dude did both? The way you put it, yep. But the Haditha case isn't news now. This case is. The news topic is about the Afghan murders of 9 kids and 6 others perped by this dude....
Agree 100%. This was not an act of war but of murder. Therefore, the alleged attacker should be before an Afghan court.
Khadr was defending himself while under attack. There is no comparison to this act of brutality. Your comment is just a limp dick attempt at deflecting blame.Too bad that Omar Khadr wasn't held to that same standard
What is quaint is this response. If I didn't think you had a right to your opinion I would have told you to STFU. Not that I could ever comprehend how your mind twists things around to come up with such silly responses, but I'm sure Freud would have a field day inside your head.I see.... So, only your perspective counts here, eh and that is the final word.
How quaint.
Agree 100%. This was not an act of war but of murder. Therefore, the alleged attacker should be before an Afghan court.
Yeah, sure Cliffy.
Let me ask you a question on the Khadr thing... Exactly what was this Canadian boy defending in Afghanistan?
Are you against capital punishment?
Not sure if this came up - US troops burned the Koran in error - Lots of people killed.
US Soldier kills 16 - none killed so far.
It is clear what is more important and valued in that society.
I'm not in principle against capital punishment, so if it were a Canadian soldier my view and the governemnt's offical view would clearly be at odds. I'd say ensure a fair trial but otherwise hand him over to the Afghan courts, but the government could not allow it without first ensuring he won't receive capital punishment.
One Afghan soldier killed and a few Afghan government officials injured so far. It's just starting to sink in.
BBC News - Afghanistan militants attack Kandahar killings site
A good chance that Khadr would have been treated better by the Afghans than by the Americans. That's not a glowing appraisal of the Afghan penal system, but a condemnation of the excessive cruelty of American detention facilities like Gitmo and other black op detention facilities (AKA torture chambers). Hundreds or possibly thousands of people have "disappeared" into this American system. Many/most detainees have suffered torture and some may have been executed.Khadr was defending himself while under attack. There is no comparison to this act of brutality. Your comment is just a limp dick attempt at deflecting blame.
I'm not in principle against capital punishment, so if it were a Canadian soldier my view and the governemnt's offical view would clearly be at odds. I'd say ensure a fair trial but otherwise hand him over to the Afghan courts, but the government could not allow it without first ensuring he won't receive capital punishment.
I beg to differ - Pull up the time lines on the burning of the Koran and the deaths.
A good chance that Khadr would have been treated better by the Afghans than by the Americans.
You are full of Shxt - about covering up.If that was true, then the story would have broke as:
"16 militants killed during raid"
....Cache of weapons discovered and safely destroyed. Soldier's actions prevents jihadist suicide attacks
Then the person responsible would have been decorated for bravery. That's normally the way the US reports US soldiers going on a rampage murdering innocent civilians. Since this came out as a murder, I suspect the other soldiers feel this guy crossed a line of some sort. Otherwise they would have covered his ass.
This case won't be news either in a very short time. Its already dropping off the media radar. I give it 2 more days and then that's it. This event will be forgotten just like Haditha.
This soldier will not be held accountable for his crime. He will get a light slap on the wrist, just like the soldiers who murdered a toddler, 7 children, 3 women, a 76 year old in a wheel chair and 12 others in Haditha.
He was a 15 year old kid whose father dragged him over there. Soldiers had just wiped out all his companions and were approaching to, for all he knew, to finish him off. He was wounded and he threw a grenade at the approaching soldier. I think that anybody in that situation would have done the same thing.Yeah, sure Cliffy.
Let me ask you a question on the Khadr thing... Exactly what was this Canadian boy defending in Afghanistan?
He was a 15 year old kid whose father dragged him over there. Soldiers had just wiped out all his companions and were approaching to, for all he knew, to finish him off. He was wounded and he threw a grenade at the approaching soldier. I think that anybody in that situation would have done the same thing.
I'm sure that you, at age 15, were fully mature and had all your intellectual capacities fully function and that is why you can't understand how a 15 year old was just obeying his father.
I agree. His mother should be punished. How does a public stoning sound to you?And his Mother and family went along with it. Support Jihad - Not one charge laid against them. At the least it is child abuse, endangering a childs life -
Afghan Students Lead Protests as Word of Massacre Spreads
- Common Dreams staff
Hundreds of Afghans, mostly students, took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday to express their anger for the slaughter of civilians by a US soldier on Sunday and to call for an end to the US and NATO occupation that has gone on for more than a decade.
I agree. His mother should be punished. How does a public stoning sound to you?