Marine charged with Murder says he's scared.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/IraqCoverage/story?id=2106286&page=1

"Life is flashing before his eyes," said Erica Thomas, wife of Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas. "And he is scared and not knowing exactly what is going on. He keeps asking me, 'What's happening? What is the news saying?' What is his lawyer saying? He's worried."

Thomas, six Marines and a Navy corpsman are accused of murder, kidnapping, assault, conspiracy, larceny and housebreaking in the death of a 52-year-old disabled Iraqi man named Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the town of Hamdania in April.

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According to witnesses, the Marines dragged Awad from his home in the middle of the night and shot him repeatedly. Witnesses said the Marines then planted a stolen shovel and an AK-47 rifle on his body to make it look like he was an insurgent killed as he was planting a roadside bomb.

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i hope he lives the rest of his murdering scumbag life in agonizing fear.

My sympathies lie with the victim and his family.

Hard to have sympathy for a murderer.

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Story is getting a lot of local air time. If they are guilty as charged it is a shameful event. The biggest shame is that Georgie Boy hasn't been charged as an accessory!

He has not been judged guilty yet, I'm willing to wait and see what an unbiased investigation turns up before wishing ill towards this marine.

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doesn't put someone of trial for 'murder' in a war zone, without some pretty solid evidence.

that we wouldn't go to war over WMDs without actual credible evidence, but I guess we just can't make assumptions anymore.

Just like we would never imagine that a US President would expose an American intelligence operation to our enemies for political gain, but that happened as well.

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I don't think they make those confessions publically available.

I'm still not even remotely believing the charges without some type of proof, but if it has been released that confessions were made, It goes a long way to convincing me.

Looking forward to seeing the confession and praying the accusations aren't true. If they are, the marine should be scared because death is in his near future.

So is a dead body lying in the street.

Good thing it doesn't matter if you're convinced or not.

I refuse to jump to conclusions without proof. If you don't need that proof thats great, I do.

I was misled about why we were going to war with proof and now you want me to eagerly accept this as well?

I think not.

Talking to a republican: "No moron, I don't hate the troops or America, No moron, I don't support al qaeda". It's like talking to a third grader sometimes.

Yes, I'll wait a while, I enjoy a good debate.

Now they have to conduct an article 32 hearing, which is the military version of a grand jury hearing. If the charges are upheld by the hearing then it goes to a court martial. The trial will determine guilt or innocence.

Are you one of those that believe that the NCIS investigation was padded? That seems to be the consensus of at least one of the defense lawyers.

kill - kill -kill. Wait until these guys come home and the 'war mentality" kicks off over here.

Not that that makes a damned bit of difference in this "trial by media" culture.

He's on trial.

The others facing charges are Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III; Marine Cpl. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos; Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson; Marine Pfc. John J. Jackson; Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr.; Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington; and Marine Cpl. Marshall L. Magincalda.

Where's their superior officer? The kid has done THREE TOURS in Iraq. That would drive anyone batshit crazy. It doesn't excuse the alleged actions, but it does go a ways towards explaining them.

Looks like just a squad, and Sgt Hutchins III, would have been the one in charge. Usually you won't find an officer below the platoon level, unless personnel are really shorthanded.

of the platoon leaders ought to start going out with their subordinates every now and again. It seems a bit of a challenge to evaluate someone when you've not seen them in a combat environment. You have to wonder if the brass ever go outside the wire??? It's a rare day indeed when you see a commissioned officer's name on the casualty lists, and more so lately.

And the worm doesn't feel a thing when you jam the hook through him.

he's a symptom of a much larger problem that leads right to Dumbsfeld's office.

I've been scared and pissed and angry and a lot of other emotions for about five years, on a continuous, ongoing basis. I know that my country is committing a serious act against itself that might actually result in suicide if it isn't stopped. And as many problems as I see in the good old U.S. of A., I'm not quite ready to flush it down the tubes yet.

And if you did what you're accused of doing Mr. Thomas, your removal from the general population will be a net benefit to the mess we're currently in.

that screw up a perfectly good occupation. I mean, we invade an unarmed country, pretend it's (ehem, ehem) a "war," and get to kill people for free. Then this knucklehead comes along and spoils the party for everyone. Getting busted like this casts a dim light over some otherwise legitimate brutalizing in the name of FREEDOM.

There's just no justice in this world.

I'll bet hundreds of such acts of murder and denial have gone undetected.

Unless it's the wild west run amok in Iraq, he follows a chain of command and the very least, the commanding officer must harbor responsibility for what his/her men do.

And I suspect that they've been ordered to spread terror and get some git back, also with wild abandon.

It's degenerated into something truly ghastly over there, this is just one such story.

Like the war or not, this speculation is not correct.

and a suspicion isn't right or wrong, it's a suspicion.

determined to oust us...and will; B. Speculation, by definition, can't be "wrong".

That's the way it works in looneyland.

I also wonder if he thinks Saddam caused 9/11.

and probably many more to come.

And I hope he is sent to HIS death too.

murdering?:shrug: It's hard to drum up sympathy for accused murderers. Sorry. We went through this shit in Viet Nam. Been there, done that.

And not in the old definiton of "inspiring awe". I've seen more sympathy for convicted murderers than for this marine.

Well, so much for the understanding of society. Why not just put him on the drumhead to show our friends in Iraq we are willing to sacrifice our sons to show our commitment to justice.

"For Democracy any man would be willing to give his only begotten son."

Quite a rush to judgement on Marines.

Remember there are now many, many incidents under investigation. They are not all Haditha incidents in either the depravity of the murders or the quality of the evidence.

I wouldn't put it past Rumsfeld to make sure that the most innocent of incidents are the only ones that see public trial - and the most depraved incidents will be hushed up.

Murder will out.