Comments for The post that wrote itself. We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:33:03 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The post that wrote itself. From the AP, via Military.com, pointed out by Fuzzybear... Soldier says he randomly shot at Iraqis The Associated Press Posted : Monday Jan 14, 2008 13:40:18 EST FORT CARSON, Colo. — The Army is investigating possible war crimes after a Fort Carson soldier facing first-degree murder charges in the slayings of two Iraq war veterans told investigators he and another soldier randomly fired at Iraqi civilians. She wondered why she hadn't seen anything about it on the milblogs: It's such an incomprehensible mess that I can't really sort it out, but have you heard anything about this? I was initially... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:10:09 -0600 Comment from FbL on 2008-02-04 Thanks for the link, John. And in H&I Fires, too. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html#comment-69353 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html#comment-69353 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:35:10 -0600 Comment from fmr_grunt on 2008-02-04 Hell in the Pacific and the story told by one of the USMC veterans interviewed for the show. He vividly described that when a position was taken by the Marines, before an officer showed up, one them would walk through the position and shoot all of the wounded Japanese soldiers. It was the way that war was fought. They new that they would not be given any quarter and they gave none. I'm certain the officers of the line units and war correspondents knew this went on. As always, some historical perspective is instructive.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html#comment-69333 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/the_post_that_w.html#comment-69333 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:10:27 -0600