01.23.06
none dare call it murder
Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. covered Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush’s head with a sleeping bag… sat on his chest until the man suffocated… but was only convicted of negligent homicide…
In an e-mail to a commander, [prosecutor Maj. Tiernan] Dolan said, Welshofer wrote that restrictions on interrogation techniques were impeding the Army’s ability to gather intelligence. Welshofer wrote that authorized techniques came from Cold War-era doctrine that did not apply in Iraq, Dolan said.
"Our enemy understands force, not psychological mind games," Dolan quoted from Welshofer’s message. Dolan said an officer responded by telling Welshofer to "take a deep breath and remember who we are."
negligent? …seems to me, you gotta be paying attention to sit on somebody, and hear them struggle for breath ’til they breathe their last… and, explain something to me: how is suffocation supposed to be an interrogation technique?
ameriKKKan justice, two K point six…