I was watching CCTV-4 today, and I watched an interview with regular Iraqi folks on their trial and sentence, they're angry this many didn't get the death penalty.
Just fyi.
Gee, I wonder why? :roll:
It must be because they hate America.
They hate us for our freedom (you notice how you don't
hear that catchphrase much anymore? It sounds pretty lame, in retrospect, doesn't it?)
Look, here's Abeer and her daddy.
His name is Qasim Hamza al-Janabi. She's kind of named after him: Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, isn't that sweet.
I wonder if he was pissed off because he didn't have a son.
If he
had had a son, then this atrocity never would've occurred, because, in the words of rapist/killer Sergeant Cortez:
"While we were playing cards Barker and Green started talking about having sex with an Iraqi female. Barker and Green had already known what house they wanted to go to ... knew only one male was in the house, and knew it would be an easy target."
Because, in other words, five American soldiers felt brave enough to face down
one lone Iraqi male in order to break into his home, rape his little girl, and slaughter his family, but not
two or more. Good heavens, no. That would almost be too much like a fair fight.
Someone might actually get hurt; someone who mattered, that is. One of the US soldiers might chip a nail or something.
So they broke in, hustled Mr. al-Janabi off into his bedroom along with his wife and five-year-old daughter, and held them at gunpoint while they took turns raping 14-year-old Abeer in the living room. For the grand finale, they shot her in the face.
Then they blew out the five-year-old's brains, slaughtered Mr and Mrs. al-Janabi, and tried fairly unsuccessfully to set Abeer on fire with kerosene, sort of like cats covering up their sh!t by kicking litter over it.
They then attempted to blame this heinous crime on "insurgents".
Sergeant Paul Cortez cut a plea bargain and received a hundred year sentence; under US military law his 100-year sentence will actually mean only ten years in prison. With good behavior, he'll be out in five.
One of his cohorts, Specialist James Barker, also pled and got an even lighter sentence: 90. He'll probably be out in four years, give or take.
He'll be walking the streets right about the time Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi- whose name means "fragrance of flowers"; who was not permitted by her assailants to shut her legs even in death, but was found by the neighbors lying on the floor "with one leg stretched and the other bended and her dress was lifted to her neck"; who was initially reported by the American media as being a woman of about 25 years of age- he'll be walking the streets a free man, right about the time Abeer would've been eighteen, if the American soldiers had let her live.