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[Final-Fan]

Eomund said:

O, I finally found out who said that quote guys, the "murder in the dark of night" quote, looks like I was off by a few words.

In and interview John Kerry said ,"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, break sort of the customs of the [*uh*] of [*uh*] the historical customs, religious customs."

Now he might have been referring to a specific incident, but none of the charges brought against the American soldiers in any of the cases that I know of, have yet resulted in a finding of guilt. Since we have a system here that you are "innocent until proven guilty" should he have made those comments? I believe not, he simply could have said that the incident, if he was talking about one incident in particular, "It is a tragedy and we need to investigate it thoroughly. I hope that these charges are false and this was all a big misunderstanding."

http://www.americandaily.com/article/10643

Not to mention that most of the charges brought against our troops are coming from the enemy itself. Like in Hadetha. That is a sham, and if any of our people get court-marshaled over it I will hold it over President Bush's head until they get exonerated.

Concerning Blackwater. I don't really give a rip. They may have over-reacted but they have, up to this point, been perfect in their record of the missions they have been on. 100% success rate. That is saying something. Even having said that, I believe that if people are wanting to crucify them over it, I say the same thing as in other cases, give them the benefit of the doubt, and if it does in fact turn out that they are guilty - Give them the full punishment of the law.

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Off by a few words?? If you take "murder in the dark of night" and remove the "murder", that kind of changes the meaning. I want a full retraction.

Overreacted.  Are you serious?  17 people dead for no reason and you "don't give a rip"? They went someplace they were ordered not to go and opened fire on civilians for no apparent reason (as far as anyone can tell so far). And this is merely the most notorious of Blackwater's abuses. The SS was very effective also, but that doesn't mean their methods were OK.

[edit: And did you really say it's a "sham" that most of the reports of soldiers abusing Iraqis is coming from the Iraqis claiming to have been abused?  Most reports of crimes come from the victims of those crimes, you know.  I suppose you think everyone in Abu Ghraib had it coming. 

[And I looked at your source and found a total lack of context.  [edit2: found the context, see below.]]