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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Behenna, who was 24 at the time, said he acted in self-defense when Mansur threw a chunk of concrete at him and reached for the lieutenant’s handgun. Army prosecutors said the argument didn’t stand up because Behenna was already pointing his weapon at the prisoner.

Anyone care to interpret this statement?
It’s not legal to defend oneself if we’re pointing a gun at the time of the attack, especially if the attack includes a disarm attempt—?

We will probably never know what happened. What is being said , is what the prosecutor told the court to convince the court.

Was the guy pointing his pistol at the terrorist? Isn’t that what we want?

Killing bad guys was his job.

And I’m ok with his actions....it’s a war.

The Lt wasn’t out raping and pillaging, he did go astray by taking a terrorist to another location and try and interrogate him- which tells me all I need to know. That a LT knew the system was broken and he wouldn’t be able to find out where or who was killing his men, such that he took the bad guy elsewhere and in that Q&A had to kill the guy cause it went sideways.

Fuck him, he was a terrorist. And I’m glad the LT has been pardoned.

When we start seeing war crime cases being prosecuted in islamic counties and people being beheaded and burned alive for committing them, (not heresy or apostasy) then I’ll start to think we should be going after our own for the same or much, much less, as in this case.

Thank you Mr. President!! Better than having Bergdahls parents as celebrated guests to the Whitehouse!