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Cally served his time in house arrest in his quartersNo low to low for a man who openly admires and seeks to emulate dictators and authoritarians.
Our military has standards and codes. It is professional and strict. Something our enemies typically lack. Trump seems to want them to emulate our enemies. No surprise.
Trump may pardon US soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes – report
Legal experts cited in the report said pardoning several accused and convicted war criminals, including some who have not yet gone to trial, has not been done in recent history. Some worried such pardons could erode the legitimacy of military law.
I'm pretty critical of Trump, but not in this case.
We put these men in an impossible situation in many cases, and some of them made very bad decisions.
Historically, we've always treated these guys pretty leniently. Rusty Cally of Mai Lai fame spent less than 3 years in prison for murdering 347 Vietnamese civilians. He was the only person held accountable for that, even though he didn't give the order and he didn't do all the shooting.
Not bad for slaughtering unarmed civilians
Trump would be proud