CBS News’ ‘60 Minutes’ Blasted Over ‘War Criminal Puff Piece’ On Eddie Gallagher

You need to take your own advice. Here is another clue. See anything about having one's picture taken with a dead person being defined as a war crime.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2441

 

Makes no difference what I see. Only thing that matters is what the jury saw.

Looks like you want to re litigate the case. Maybe you could contact the guy's defense team and explain to them what it is they missed. I'm not interested.

 

I don't argue that a crime was not committed. Rather, I disagree with calling the crime a war crime.

 

Killing an unarmed prisoner is a war crime.

He did it for sport ...and BRAGGED about it on Facebook

 

Well, maybe you can start a petition to request the change at some International tribunal, or something.... I'm not signing, though. I think behavior like the one this cretin was convicted for is despicable.

 

I know you're not joking. The truth is that if Trump were the peace candidate we would be out of Syria and Afghanistan, and there would be no sanctions against Venezuela or Russia.

 

It's not my definition oh brilliant one. It's the United States Code, which you seem not to have experienced before.

 

Makes no difference whether it is your code or not. It is not a war crime to attack another country under some circumstances. If it were, it would be a war crime to belong to the UN or NATO.

 

Everyone knows that Trump is the Peace Candidate. Especially those who pretend they don't. HRC was the War Candidate, and Trump's opposition has opposed the withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan.

Do you really think economic sanctions and war are the same?

 

You are a victim of disinformation.

"A decorated Navy SEAL was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder Tuesday by a military jury in San Diego.
Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, was accused of fatally stabbing a young wounded fighter for the Islamic State militant group, posing for a picture with the corpse and shooting two civilians from a sniper's perch in Iraq in 2017.

Gallagher was found guilty on the charge involving the photo with the corpse."
NBC NEWS, Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher acquitted of murder in ISIS fighter case, By Elisha Fieldstadt, Phil Helsel, Shanshan Dong and Associated Press, July 2, 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...r-acquitted-murder-isis-fighter-case-n1025226

 

From your article
Seven SEALs have testified during the trial over the past two weeks that Gallagher abruptly stabbed the teen prisoner on May 3, 2017, just after he and other medics treated the boy.

Two of them said they witnessed Gallagher, a 19-year-veteran, stab the teen.

 

IOW, you are a victim of disinformation. That testimony was clearly not credible. Gallagher was found "not guilty" of those charges.

"A decorated Navy SEAL was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder Tuesday by a military jury in San Diego. Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, was accused of fatally stabbing a young wounded fighter for the Islamic State militant group, posing for a picture with the corpse and shooting two civilians from a sniper's perch in Iraq in 2017.

Gallagher was found guilty on the charge involving the photo with the corpse."
NBC NEWS, Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher acquitted of murder in ISIS fighter case, By Elisha Fieldstadt, Phil Helsel, Shanshan Dong and Associated Press, July 2, 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...r-acquitted-murder-isis-fighter-case-n1025226

 

The testimony was the testimony. His own mates testified against him and oh yea...he BRAGGED about murdering the guy he took the picture with

 

Then explain why he was not convicted of the murder. Explain that, and only that.

 

IOW, A corrupt JAG Corps has been exposed for trying to railroad another combat veteran.
Google "acquitted" and "not guilty".

NBC NEWS, Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher acquitted of murder in ISIS fighter case, By Elisha Fieldstadt, Phil Helsel, Shanshan Dong and Associated Press, July 2, 2019.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...r-acquitted-murder-isis-fighter-case-n1025226

 

OJ was found not guilty too.

Believe that one?

 

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Your refusal to address the statute I linked to shows you do not care about the rule of law, and that makes you a typical US consumer. You are more interested in material things than you are in the law. Your remark shows you to be not just ignorant of the law, but oblivious to its role in civilization.

 

So what? Do you know why Gallagher was found not guilty? For whatever reason, the military court did not find sufficient credible evidence to convict. When you go to trial, you have the reasonable expectation that if you are found not guilty, you will not be punished as if you were found guilty. Otherwise, there is no point in even having a trial. No system is perfect, but I prefer ours where you are presumed innocent until found guilty.

I have set on a couple of court martial boards. Nothing of this significance, but I found the procedure to fair and thorough.

 

No high explosive devices, but the end result is that poor people suffer. Economic war or HE military war, which do you prefer?

 

I sure do. If the glove doesn't fit... + the police contaminated the crime scene.
Would you have voted to convict OJ at the criminal trial?

 

You appear to be generalizing. You have zero knowledge of me and what I am interested in. Keep your insults to yourself.

You are taking a simple statement and trying to apply it to all situations. That simply does not work. The world is more complicated than that.

Personally, I would prefer that we stay out of the foreign entanglements. They rarely turn out well. But I have found nothing in what you have linked which says we are committing war crimes when we come to the aid of a friend of take preemptive action to prevent an attack.

 

The poor are finally advancing in the Trump economy.
OTOH, War is Hell. Trump's opposition should stop all the warmongering.

 

We each know each other ONLY by what we post here.

Your last post completely dismissed the role of law in how you view the world around you.

That means I dismiss you as having any credibility at all regarding what goes on in the world around us.

 

War is hell, and sanctions punish the innocent. Have it your way.