Reply #9: Hold on... [View All]

[heliarc]

Yes its sick that this guy thinks the death of 24 civilians is routine, but I think the article is a little misleading. It suggests at the beginning that Commander Chessani was on the ground with those guys who carried out the massacre and thought that it was routine, but later in the article it seems like he was actually the one receiving the reports that the killings occured because of a roadside bomb and small arms crossfire which was the lie that the really sick soldiers propagated to cover their barbarity.

So my first question is this. Was he on the ground with those assholes or not? Seems to me like he was back in the barracks and only had contact with the Marines by radio or from reports when they returned to base.

If he was not on the ground with them them the sick thing is that 24 innocent people getting offed in one day is just like any other day. But if its true than there's more of a reason to understand that an official inquiry wasn't raised... just pay the poor victims families just like any other day <Sigh>. That's awful enough.

If he was on the ground with them, than the prospect of killing them deliberately was routine. I find this harder to believe is the actuality and he is being taken out of context in the article to try to put him on the ground with those guys when he wasn't. That's how I read the article at least?