*PETITION* U.S. Marine kills wounded insurgent.

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Link I encourage everyone to sign this and support this Marine!

If you think a US Marine should not even stand trial for killing a wounded enemy, surely the petition should call for a change in the law to make this generally lawful? (With, of course, the requisite other changes, such as the US withdrawing from the Geneva convention, and so on.) What's the point in having a law and then saying it shouldn't be enforced? There doesn't seem to be anything special about this incident to justify special leniency. The soldier was terrified, but so are most soldiers in a combat situation.Politically, if the US fails to act on a murder by one of its soldiers in a mosque, it's not likely to retain much goodwill in the Middle East (except in Israel).

hey this is what we should have expected. We keep men there too long and they begin to freak and when we stay there too long the insurgents will do whatever it takes to win. SO i say it is our governments fault for going in there. No way i am going to sign that.

Day before: A guy 'playing dead' blew himself up. Killing one Marines and injuring the Marines in the video. What do you expect him to do? IF you have a wife and kids to go home to, what are you going to do? Let them kill you first.

agree, i think a lot of those insurgents are out to kill americans by whatever means possible. if they need to have a grenade with the pin pulled right before they die, to make sure they take out some americans, then, by all means, incapcitate him before he kills u..however, if he was shown to have no such weapons on him, and was in fact truly defenceless, stand trial, i'm willing to bet very few JAG officials will give him hard time. In regards to the Genevoa convention, yeah, certain rules and guidelines were written and we, the world, were meant to follow and adhere strictly to these laws. BUT when others refuse to go by the laws written, then what are we to do? try our best to play nice while they play dirty? hell naw...fight fire with fire.

i sign that and i will be over there sooon you better beleive i don't care whos running toward let it be little kids or adults try to runn to freedom just the chance they might have a bomb grenade i will enage them and make sure they are dead before i aproach there location so i fully support that marine

I aslo signed it. The soldier did nothing wrong, and I hope they set him free!

hmmmm .... what does the UCMJ say ?

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The inhumane treatment of EPW [....] is prohibited and is not justified by the stress of combat [....]. Inhumane treatment is a serious and punishable violation under international law and the UCMJ

You'll never get it, it's because your Canadian! And BTW he wasn't a POW he was a terrorist!

EXACTLY!

He was a prisoner taken in war. That appears to make him a POW. Do restrictions against killing POWs only apply if they are not enemy soldiers?

it's shit like this that makes america suck ass.

how would you react is they did that to an american?

THEY DID!!! THEY CUT OFF MANY AMERICAN AND OTHER NATIONALITIES HEADS THAT HAD NOTHING MORE AGAINST THEM THEN THEY WERE REPORTERS, OR WERE JUST AMERICAN AND OVER THERE...WE DON'T KILL IRAQIES OVER HERE IN AMERICA JUST BECUZ WE KILL THEM OVER THERE...THEY'RE KILLING EVERY AMERICAN OVER THERE, WHETHER COMBATANTS OR NOT. and dude, until canada starts sending men over there to die and get blown up by a 11 year old boy who was wired like an industrial building...don't fucking speak...ok?

Then move to Canada so you can remourse with all of the other pussies up there!

join the military, get sent over there, then come back and talk...don't make remarks based on what u see on tv.

thats something that has to be found out afterwards...and i say that becuz..if he were a terrorist, then i guarentee the troops that did it would not be here..but since they took him out...then maybe he did, or maybe he didn't have any thing on him...but that's a chance u have to take when making that type of decision.

thats how they find out..if he had explosives on him, then he was, if we didn't then, he was possibly not. and no..i'm not in the military, but my mother is, and she's over 20 years, and so is her boyfriend, so if they were over there, and they had to gamble with their lives based on know facts, that yes.. they are out to kill americans by any means possible..then i would want her to come back alive, of course. and that she would have to do what she had to do, to ensure that.

Jesus Christ, why is everything that U don't believe in, or agree with, stupid and pointless?