US Marines murder 24 innocent people, all let off the hook for the crime

Today, the final person to be charged in the Haditha massacre entered into a plea bargain.  

The final US Marine to face charges over the killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005 has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty.  Sgt Frank Wuterich was one of eight Marines charged with murder or failure to investigate the killings. but now faces just three months in jail.  The charges against six were dropped or dismissed, and one was acquitted.  Sgt Wuterich reached a plea deal to bring an end to the most notorious case against US troops from the Iraq war.  He faces a maximum of three months confinement, two-thirds forfeiture of pay and a demotion to the rank of private.  Before the plea, he faced several counts of manslaughter.

The above quote came from BBC News. 

This is beyond disgusting.  These Marines murdered 24 innocent people after they were hit by an IED.  And now, NONE of these murderous Marines have suffered any punishment, and they are walking around the USA scot-free. 

Here are some video reports on the Haditha massacre.






The US Marines lied about this massacre, and the US military covered it up.  And then they thought so little of the whole murderous incident, they did not even bother to destroy the evidence:

One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.  “I mean, whether it’s a result of our action or other action, you know, discovering 20 bodies, throats slit, 20 bodies, you know, beheaded, 20 bodies here, 20 bodies there,” Col. Thomas Cariker, a commander in Anbar Province at the time, told investigators as he described the chaos of Iraq. At times, he said, deaths were caused by “grenade attacks on a checkpoint and, you know, collateral with civilians.” 

The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. An attendant was burning them as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp. 

The documents — many marked secret — form part of the military’s internal investigation, and confirm much of what happened at Haditha, a Euphrates River town where Marines killed 24 Iraqis, including a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair, women and children, some just toddlers.

The above information came out in December 2011 in the NYT.