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Originally Posted by Rockstar
edit: party politics and political butt hurt aside I think he did the right thing.
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There were three cases. I realsised that in two cases I could not differ between what might be media stunts that blew somehtign out of proportion, ordinary combat action being interporeted as excessivce or something like that, so I decided to abstain from an opinion on these two cases. I do not say pro and I do not say contra on these. The third however, posing with the corpus of dead enemies, is something that cannot be interpreted as combat action, but shows a severly derailed persinality (whatever the reaosn may be) or a severly derailed general set of behaviour standards and morals. And this after the images from Abu Ghraib. I say "guilty" here. Also, the miliuary justice system has been devalued severly in this case, he ran throzgh the demanded procedures and was found guilty, and then the little boy int he WH comes along and say "Ätschi-bätschi, you may say this, but I say something different." Not good. A lot of people in the JAG (is it the office responsible here? I know it only form TV series, I admit) must be pissed and feel disrespected, although I assume for a start that they did their job to their best knowledge.
Lil' Boy's arguments do not convince me. He took an opportunity to score a cheap point and fueling already burning fires. Mind you, in his thinking there is not enough room for anything more than just "I", and I have no doub that he cares #### about the reputation of these three men or about justice. That they profit from his decisions, is a side-effect that happens to be real but that he is not interested in at all. His own profit is what made him doing it. The three other men just happen to not get in his way.