Not sitting right

There are a lot of things about this article that are not sitting right with me.

In brief: "A jury sentenced a Marine sergeant Friday to 15 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi civilian during a fruitless search for an insurgent. Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III also was dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank to private and given a written reprimand. On Thursday, Hutchins became the first and only member of an eight-member squad to be convicted of murder in the killing.

Testimony from several of his comrades pointed to him as the mastermind of the plot to kidnap and kill a suspected insurgent. The Iraqi civilian was pulled from his Hamdania home in April 2006 and shot in a hole. An AK-47 and shovel were placed nearby to make him look like an insurgent planting a bomb, according to the prosecution."

Basically what I got from the article was that they thought the guy was an insurgent, shot him then figured out he wasn't, so they covered their ass by lying. Sounds like something their boss would do, so why wouldn't they?

Not that I'm condoning killing people but that's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it? The military is going to put a solider in jail for killing an innocent person seemingly accidentally, then trying to cover their tracks. Holy sweet merciful fuck that has to sound familiar to them????

Make people think we're not going to let renegade soliders get away with killing innocent people while we do it ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME. in the same country the soliders are occupied in.

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