While the Pentagon rarely goes to the lengths of pursuing war crimes
charges against American troops, the sheer number of US wars at any
given time mean there will inevitably be some. Officials say President
Trump is preparing to pardon some of them.
President Trump has made expedited requests for the paperwork to pardon troops, and indications are the pardons will be coming on or around Memorial Day. Apparently the pardons are meant to be seen as a pro-military measure for the holiday.
Officials have not seen a complete list of the pardons to come, but
suggested Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who is set to stand trial for
shooting unarmed civilians and killing an enemy captive, was going to be
pardoned before the trial can even start.
Others in the mix are Maj. Matthew Golsteyn, who was accused of killing
an armed Afghan in 2010, and the group of Marine Corps snipers who were
charged with urinating on the corpses of killed fighters.
These are cases treated as controversial among some Republicans, who
believe the troops were punished for “doing their jobs.” Pardoning them
en masse, however, will risk military discipline, since there’s even
less reason for troops to follow the rules if they figure they’ll get
pardoned after the fact.
What is a war crime?
Is not war itself the crime?
Is attacking others using false flags a war crime?
is occupying another nation not a war crime?
Read the Geneva Conventions.
Still waiting on Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning. But the peace president is more interested in setting some true patriots free. What’s a little butchery. Boys will be boys.
Cue the ‘other side’ committing war crimes on our troops as well (not to mention that now if civilian death war crimes are pardonable, our own civilians are put at risk), secure in the knowledge that if we condone our own troops’ criminal activities then we must also condone our enemies’.
Torturing POW’s is normal now murdering them is the new norm.
Americans during WWII would have rejected this BS outright.
You forgot that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower erected death camps throughout the western half of Germany and in France to house over a million German POW’s in crowded conditions, with NO shelter or provisions. This was done just after Germany’s unconditional surrender. This was just another method of torture.
Well, at least they didn’t chop heads off, that would be really bad.
At least none that were reported.
Prepare for trump to award them a medal of freedom.