The Iraq War keeps getting stranger and stranger.
The media is reporting that U.S. Marines slaughtered two dozen Iraqi civilians, including women and children last November.
The American public does not like it when adults deliberately hurt or murder children. They hate it, in fact.
The current backlash going on in the U.S. against sex offenders should be proof enough of that. So is anyone really surprised to hear that there's building anger at allegations of U.S. adults gunning down unarmed children?
The American public also hates cover-ups and the media is leading the charge in saying that this particular Marine unit may have engaged in one, telling their superiors that the dead were killed by a roadside bomb.
The investigations are ongoing, but it is clear that the media and Representative Murtha would rather skip the investigation and trial. They would rather condemn the Marines that may have been involved. They need to be reminded that in this country all suspects are innocent until they are found guilty in a COURT OF LAW, not in the court of public opinion to which their opinions belong.
Nothing good is going to come of this. It will be a disaster if the media reports are correct; but they ought to give the Marines a fair shake before sending them to the gallows.
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