where are all the committed Christians, America is reckoned to be swarming with them, and here on Mudcat there are quite a few who parade their faith (Akenaton)

Couldn't you have said it a bit nicer that you are missing Bobert's contribution, Ake?

Let's assume the facts are how they are reported now then it is a crime and has to be prosecuted. However, I don't expect any harsher sentence than soldiers being thrown out of the army/navy the way I have seen former crimes treated.

Having said that I cannot start screaming murder now all of a sudden without remembering the many more times the other side in this ugly war has committed similar crimes killing civilians. To children watching their parents being killed it doesn't really matter if the murderers fight for the one side or the other. The one difference I see is that the other side plans the murders cold blooded whereas in this case it seems to be a outrageously wrong revenge action which had not been planned before.

To any person of any faith it should not matter who the murderers were to condemn murder. If each cold blooded mass murder in Iraq during say the last year had its own thread we had about one per week running.

In most of these threads, however, Ake would not call "Mudcat Christians" to contribute a condemnation. Ake, I don't believe you your attitude of righteous indignation.

Wolfgang