this is so wrong....

[Professor S]

Wow, aren't we so quick to pass jusdgement when we have no idea the situation that the soldier was in.

This is not a traditional war. Our enemies are not dressed in easy to see uniforms and marching in columns. They are in plain clothes, playing dead, boobytrapping their own comrades corpses, etc. In fact one of that soldier's fellow platoon mates was killed by an insurgent who played dead, then popped up and started shooting. Add to this the likelihood that the soldier had probably been foghting for several days straight on very little sleep. The really sad part is that this soldier is going to go down hard for this so that everyone who has no clue what the hell is going on over there can feel better about themselves.

If I was in Iraq? I'd put an extra bullet in anyone's head in the combat area who I didn't personally see get hit with a killshot. You don't know if they are faking or really dead and it has already cost American lives. If there is outrage over such things as this, its the insurgents themselves who are to blame. If you don't want to get shot when legitimately hurt, tell your friends to stop pretending and using such guerilla tactics.

They have brought it on themselves. "They have sown the wind, and in turn will reap the whirlwind."