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- While true that violating a curfew in a warzone will more than likely earn a pretty harsh penalty, the "punishment" meted out by US soldiers was gross and excessive.
- Even in a warzone, this is NOT the way to deal with curfew violators - that's what jails are for. Since the US imposed the curfew, then you would think that they had measures in place to deal with potential curfew violators, or at least one would hope this was the case. This incident makes it sound like the soldiers were instructed to kill violators on the spot, and so folks who have to work late at night, go to the emergency room at the hospital, et cetera, have to risk their lives in their own country in order to just simply function like normal human beings.
The defense attorney says the soldiers were within their "rights" to commit a crime (btw, the reason we are supposedly there is to give rights back to the people that Saddam took away) but what about the rights of the young man who was forced into the river, and ultimately to his death?
Doesn't sound too different from Saddam's regime.
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