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It's pretty easy to sit here in our easy chairs and read some news report that lumps someone's view of what happened in a few paragraphs isn't it. What if the Iraqi was marking their position for insurgents or a sniper attack. What if that was you sitting over there at a checkpoint with your life on the line and someone was lighting a smoke or talking on a lighted cell phone? Would you be so forgiving? What if the whole squad was killed instead of the one lone Iraqi who endangered them all by being a dumbass? No doubt then there would be yet another post to long to read with 47 5 year old links questioning it's legality, about how bad this war is and how it's killing a whole generation of US soldiers. Their damned if they do and damned if they don't. It's pretty damn easy to convict someone if you've never been in their shoes or faced the same dangers thousands of miles from home.