Marines cover up massacre in Iraq

"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from birth, and then punish them for the crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded than that you first make thieves, and then punish them?"

Here's a big surprise. A marine experiences one too many IEDs and goes Terminator. Everyone screams murderer. But this government made them go to Iraq to do the dirty work. When they snap and go on a rampage, the public (who elected this government) throws the marines to the wolves. We're asking them to do super-human things, to live outside their own minds, to be in complete control all the time and this IS NOT POSSIBLE IN A PLACE LIKE IRAQ. Yes, they're going to fuck up. They are human. They are in a place they don't want to be, watching their friends die everyday. You can blather on about rigorous training all you want, but most of these kids are as green as Oscar the Grouch. They aren't ready, they don't realise what they signed up for, and they're fucking up hand over fist. I don't blame their superiors for trying to cover uip for them; I would too. Americans can shake their fingers at these guys all they want, but you put them there, so you share the blame.

Jam it back in, in the dark.