Stupid Headline

US marine guilty of Iraq killing.

No shit! Isn't that exactly what marines are supposed to do? Don't the armed forces actively recruit dim witted and impoverished thugs without a whole hell of a lot to live for and then train them and pay them to be killers? It's not rocket science. It's the reason soldiers can kick ass at warfare. It's also the reason it makes no sense to use them as a security force. Cops are trained to use deadly force as a last resort and they can still barely keep their fingers off the trigger. Marines kill. It's their job. Headline could just as well read, "Garbage man guilty of trash removal."

But here's what happened.

A US marine has been found guilty of killing an Iraqi soldier while they were on night-time patrol in Fallujah.

(Holmes) said he suspected that the Iraqi was signalling to insurgents with a lit cigarette and a mobile phone.

Soldiers aren't cops. Get them the hell out of Iraq now!