Marine found not guilty. NBC Knows Better.

The Marine who killed the wounded Iraqi feigning death in the mosque in Fallujah has been found not guilty of any wrongdoing.
Good.
A wounded man can kill you as easily as one who isn’t wounded. Up close, when you least expect it.
The national news sees it differently. Wednesday night NBC news showed the nation the video clip of the Marine shooting the wounded man. Of course it was too graphic to show the whole thing, they warned us. They froze the picture and played the audio instead.
But just the same, they love showing that kind of stuff. As if to say, "The Marine has been acquitted but we know better", just take a look for yourself and be as outraged as we are.
At the same time this story is playing out, you have the soldiers of Abu Gharib fame being tried by the military for their misdeeds. What a wonderful convergence of events.
It’s a media feeding frenzy.
Let’s see those pictures of the naked Iraqi’s with their heads in sand bags one more time. Maybe somebody missed it the last 200 times they showed it.
But you know, I missed the video of Nicholas Berg getting his head cut off by Zarqawi. Can I see that one again? Has anybody got a video of the Iraqi police recruits being suicide bombed? How about that Irish woman being shot in the head after spending her life helping needy Iraqi’s? What happened to those video? I guess the answer is that bad guys doing bad things is not news. We expect that from them.
Good guys doing bad things is REAL news. You don't expect it from them, unless they are congressmen. I just read a great quote from Teddy Roosevelt about roll call in the Senate; when they call their name, they don't know whether to say "present" or "guilty". That another story.
Does the media think Iraq is some type of police SWAT raid or something?
In war, people get hurt. This is a surprise to media types. They imagine only soldiers get hurt. For the first few months of the insurgency, they would report that 15 civilians were killed by U.S. troops. Never mind that the civilians were carrying rocket propelled grenadees and AK-47's. They were civilians and that implied that they had been killed by some mistake of American tropps.
Another flash for those media types; not only do people get hurt, in war, they die. In the heat of the moment, all kinds of crap happens. You shoot people who are trying to surrender. You shoot people who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. You shoot completely innocent people, like the Italian agent at the check point. You even shoot your fellow soldiers. You can even shoot yourself sometimes. All by mistake. You don’t plan for it to happen. It just happens.
Frankly, it's like CAREFULLY having a plane crash. The rules try and make chaos and mayhem a gentlemanly sport. This son of a bitch, who 10 minutes ago was trying to blow your head off, is now wounded and the rules call for us to stop trying to kill him. Maybe he isn’t tired of trying to kill ME yet. But the rules say this calls for a time out. Okay, TIME OUT!, everybody stop shooting, this guy doesn’t want to play war anymore. I just spent 50 rounds of ammo taking down the asshole that shot my best friend in the face. Now I’ll bandage his wounds, MEDIVAC him to the nearest military aid station and spend the next month or so nursing him back to health. Then we can sit down quietly and discuss the error of his ways.
Yeah, maybe I will be merciful. But more likely, I’ll let him bleed out and then toss him in the dead pile with the others.
Sorry, but I would sacrifice the lives of a hundred wounded "insurgents" to save the life of one Marine or Soldier.

Let’s talk a little about the Geneva Convention.
There has been a lot of talk about how we are not treating our prisoners correctly under the Geneva Convention. Mainly this talk is coming from Capitol Hill. Do you know what the Geneva Convention says you can do to people in an occupied country who are resisting military control? In rebellion as it were? It says they can be executed. Not tossed in jail to be led around on a dog leash or have fake electric wires put on their fingers. Nothing unusual can happen to them. No, they can be taken out and shot.
Let’s try and adhere to ALL the rules of the Geneva Convention. Let’s treat them mercifully and if they still resist… well, then treat them mercifully.
When do we start?