Marine Who Ordered Haditha Attack Gets Plea Bargain

United States - The U.S. Marine who lead his squad into the infamous attack in Haditha which led to the deaths of 24 Iraqi people is getting a paltry sentence of three months, losing two-thirds of his pay, and demoted to private thanks to a plea bargain.

Despite the claims of his former platoon commander and troop members that nothing he did was wrong, the fact remains that Frank Wuterich killed more than a dozen people soon after seeing his friend killed by a bomb. Some of the dead people were women, children, and even an elderly man. None of the military members received any gunfire from those they killed. To this day the deaths, which took place a little more than six years ago, still bring the ire of many Iraqi people and was one of the main reasons Iraqi officials refused to grant immunity to U.S. troops. That refusal caused, in the end, the“withdrawal” of American troops – we still have mercenaries there – from the country, though they still are in the region.

Wuterich said during the trial he “regretted the loss of civilian lives” but still insisted what he was doing was within the rules of the military.

Even though this is one of the most famous cases against the continued occupation of Iraq, not a single member of the squad has been convicted.

Update: Frank Wuterich will not serve ANY jail time.  Instead he will only be demoted to private. For the crime of massacring 24 innocent people for no reason, nobody on that hit squad will see any punishment.