it would have been totally cool with a drone

i'm sure this was obama praying hard to not have this thing be a fucking election-year issue with the lunatic teabagger racist assholes: at the behest of well-known anti-american commie pussy kenyan muslim socialist coward--black!!--barack hussein obama, the marines are stringing up a brave defender of freedom for the mass murder of some disgusting fucking dirt people.  much like a choice for the medal of honor as a prize for some random act of purported heroism in a far larger war, this horrible event was merely a subjective choice for prosecution out of a wide-ranging, illegal war.  with all the torture, murder, drone strikes, invasions, occupations, atrocities, we could prosecute for the next 10.000 years and still not punish every villain in our wars--but start with cheney and bush!  this case was a bad one: american soldiers caught out in a no-win situation where they never should have been who panic and murder a bunch of people.  killing it off with a plea for almost no jail time screams that everybody just wants to make it go away.  that's not really justice, but on the other hand, if he'd been piloting a drone and had fucked up a huge wedding party with a hellfire missile at the orders of the cia, he'd never have been charged with anything.