“We put our hopes in the law and in the courts and…” they’ve failed us too. So, welcome to the club.

McClatchy:

Haditha victims’ kin outraged as Marines go free

HADITHA, Iraq — Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War.

Eight Marines were charged in the case, but in the intervening years, criminal charges have been dismissed against six. A seventh Marine was acquitted. The residents of Haditha, after being told they could depend on U.S. justice, feel betrayed.

“We put our hopes in the law and in the courts and one after another they are found innocent,” said Yousef Aid Ahmed, the lone surviving brother in the family. “This is an organized crime.”

What a damn, dirty disgrace!

I doubt if any of you will be surprised by this but, not only have we been illegally detaining would-be terrorists in Guantanamo, we’ve also been detaining many with no links to terrorism what’so-ever.

McClatchy reporters have been on the case these past eight months. Their findings are bound to bring about a stinging rebuke to the pro-war Bush administration.

(H/T: Mirth)

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