http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/22/soldier-sentence.html
Commentary:
How meaningless! The soldiers should have been executed. But he will get out, probably in 15 years. The Iraqi teen and her family however, will still be dead.
Note: http://www.cbc.ca/world...

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
Shoot the peasants!
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[juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]
it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"
lex ferenda
and knowing the toll I would pay for breaking whichever law broken.
Hypocrisy born of law is no excuse to break law... and yet law may be and is broken with impunity by the state's elected officials who take and break oaths we do not know.
How dumb is that?
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[juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus]
it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"
lex ferenda
I feel what we are doing to teenagers entering the armed forces is the worst kind of child abuse.
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck