Edward Gallagher is on trial for killing an ISIS prisoner. During cross-examination SEAL Team Seven Medic Corey Scott testified that he killed the fighter by asphyxiation by holding his thumb over the breathing tube that was inserted into the militant's mouth. Further, he testified that Gallagher stabbed the fighter but did not kill him.
More details at Daily Wire.
Interesting comments all over the place. Interesting as the article itself. This case is strange and opinions are splattered, some short and sharp, others broad.
For example:
On Daily Wire:
* Their job is to kill ISIS terrorists !!!
** That's what I always thought war was about. You kill the enemy. Innocents, unfortunately, are collateral damage and should be regretful. This guy was an ISIS fighter, right? If so, he's the enemy, if so we are at war with that enemy, if so we kill the enemy. End of story. Don't want people to be killed, don't send our citizens to war.
On Lucianne:
* IF the ISIS terrorist was captured and in a POW status, and according to the article he was because he was being given medical attention, and IF while in POW status, according to the article, the terrorist made no move or gave no threat to the ones treating him and at that time-under those circumstances Gallagher stabbed the terrorist twice in his neck, Gallagher should be tried for attempted murder at a minimum and the (NON-SEAL btw) corpsman should be tried for murder.
Unlight your hair on fire for one second. We DO NOT murder NOR torture (and water boarding is NOT torture) our captured enemies, period, end of discussion. If you think we should kill a captured enemy, regardless of what this idiotic Marxist government of ours does against the Constitution, regardless of how ruthless and vile the enemy happens to be, and regardless of the moronic ROE issued by the five sided puzzle palace, I strongly disagree with you. And I've been there and done that. The Cubans who murdered Jeb Seagle (my very good friend) after he was captured in Grenada, laughed about doing so after they were captured and they found out they were going to be released back to Cuba. Me and several other Marines sure wanted to plunge a knife into their necks but we didn't because that's NOT who we are. I sure hope that's not what you are.
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As I understand it, on a raid, the rules are different, but, since the advent of helicopters, those rules get more convoluted.
F'rinstance,
Saw a story about a Ranger section (2 6 man squads) in WWII assigned to blow a bridge a day's march behind the German lies at Salerno. One squad did the bridge, no problem. The other pulled security on a nearby road and stopped a German truck full of soldiers.
What to do? Can't tie 'em up and hope nobody finds them for a day or so. Can't take 'em with you; more of them than you. So somebody made a hard decision.
Today, those Rangers would be lifted out. So might the prisoners.
Circumstances are everything.
I withhold judgments on a trial unless I've worked on it, or see it. That said, let me say I'm question the veracity of the witness. A prosecutor should always be prudent when giving immunity to a witness.
"questioning"
Chip, you were a Marine? You sure hid that well, though the shoes should have been a clue.
Chip left out the quote marks.
It's beginning to look to me like Gallagher was a bad apple who should have been taken out of combat well before this happened.
Thanks, Rabel, I checked it twice and still missed them, missing I mean.
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