Support the troops who won't shoot women and children

Marine Stephen Tatum, who told another marine to shoot a group of Iraqi women and children he found on a bed in a closed room, then apparently did it himself when the marine refused, has had charges against him dropped.

This is not an exceptional pattern, it is consistent with numerous other atrocities. At My Lai, most of the people doing the killing got off, while Calley was given an extraordinarily light sentence.

For Haditha, it looks like Wuterich will get hung out to dry, but undoubtedly the Marines will do their best to give him as light a sentence as possible.

Remember folks, the best way not to commit atrocities is not to join the Army or Marines in the first place.