I agree that the military should not get a free pass for murder, but it seems everytime their are troops being charged with crimes that the prosecution is to appease the anti war freaks and not to punish the offender if their was even a crime committed. When I was in Somalia in the Marine Corps we had a gunny who shot a somali because the somali attacked him while driving down the road.He shot him witha blooper gun that was confiscated from a weapons raid.He was court martialed to the press satisfaction then we returned to the states it was overturned.The military boys should a get a lot of leeway in combat environments instead of being held accountable by some chairborn ranger who has never had a bullet fly at them.