Soldier can get parole after 10 years after murdering Iraqi family

[quinnox]

Did anyone see this story? A soldier raped an Iraqi girl and then covered it up by killing her entire family and received a 100 year sentence, ok, all well and good, but then it went on and said that he can be eligible for parole after ten years?!

I have great respect for our soldiers, unlike some on the left, but this is not justice if he can commit cold blooded murder and get out in ten years.

[montanto]

1. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=272742&mesg_id=272742

[murielm99]

2. I heard the story, too.

But I think they said he could be eligible for parole if he testified against the others involved. They are making a deal because they need his evidence.

[BulletproofLandshark]

3. Just out of curiosity...

who is it on the left that you believe doesn't respect our soldiers?

[quinnox]

10. I've seen a few here

[acmavm]

13. The only disrespect I've ever seen here was for soldiers like this

one.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Yes I want to know that answer as well.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Being eligible for parole, and actually getting parole are 2 different things

And it confuses a lot of people.

Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan have been "eligible" for years now. They get a sham parole hearing, but they know they ain't going anywhere.

I know guys who were "eligible" after 7 years, but they've been locked up for 30 and counting.

[verse18]

5. He ain't no soldier. He's a rapist and a murderer.

"I have great respect for our soldiers, unlike some on the left," Like the rest of us don't. This little strawman was not necessary.

[Totallybushed]

6. I don't know.

He could probably get out in less in the civilian court system.

Still, it just goes to show that a system that could find OJ innocent is capable of just about any miscarriage of justic.

[Dr.Phool]

8. See post #4

[Totallybushed]

12. True, but

my point still holds.

[Radical Activist]

7. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed.

I'm not denying that this was a horrible crime but the outrage confuses me. Why is it honorable to kill Iraqi families when your following orders but there's something about this case that makes it punishable with a prison sentence?
I think its naive to suggest that rape isn't wide spread in this war, as it is in ALL wars. There's a massive amount of death and depravity going on in Iraq right now and it seems like one instance was picked almost at random and called a crime. If this is a crime, then the entire war is a crime.

[Breeze54]

17. I agree war is horrible and crime happens there too but

this group of soldiers planned and plotted to 'get' this girl.
They murdered her and her family, including a five year old little sister.

They weren't "following orders" by a longshot.

[Radical Activist]

20. Ok

I just don't see the presence of absence of "orders" making rape and murder any more or less morally acceptable. Bush planned and plotted to "get" an entire nation.

[Beelzebud]

9. Who, "on the left", doesn't "support the troops"?

If you aren't a right-winger, you have certainly let them frame the issue in your mind...

[quinnox]

11. there has been a few I've noticed over the years

[verse18]

14. Who? Examples?

[Beelzebud]

15. Such as?

You can't make a blanket statement like that, and not expect to be called on it...

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Who??

[Breeze54]

16. Who said he'd actually get parole?

:shrug:

Isn't he in a military prison?
That's harder than a regular prison, from what I understand.
I'll check back in about ten years....