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...famous lines are here: "Go tell the Spartans"; "Come and get us"; and the Spartan soldier's deflection of the Persian threat, "Our arrows will blot out the sun" - he says, "Then we will fight in the shade." Herodotus: damned fine screenwriter...
...question at the heart of Girouard's case is whether he ordered three Iraqi men killed during a raid last May in the Thar Thar Canal. During the raid, soldiers took four men captive. Shortly before the soldiers were supposed to pull out, three of the detainees were allegedly shot by two soldiers in Girouard's squad, Corey R. Clagett and William B. Hunsaker. One of the three Iraqis who did not die right away was allegedly shot point-blank by another soldier, Juston R. Graber, in what's been described as a mercy killing. Initially, squad members claimed that...
...soldiers present believed Girouard was serious. Sgt. Leonel Lemus said he walked away thinking Girouard was kidding. Another soldier, Specialist Bradley Mason, testified on Tuesday that he questioned the plan, and then told him that it would be murder. When rumors began to circulate afterward, Girouard allegedly threatened his squad, saying he would kill anyone who confessed. "He told me that if I said anything, he'd kill me," Mason said. "Eventually," Capt. Mackey, the prosecutor, said, "people did start talking...
...strategy. "He's new to the job, and to the art of war," says Scales, a historian and former head of the Army War College. "Given the nature and character of this war, I think he's being a bit more measured overseas." He adds: "Military medicine and soldier care are things that are pretty easy to understand. But when you get into the complexities of a counterinsurgency, even those who are the old hands at it have trouble trying to understand...
...Iraq war has prompted such sudden firings of top brass and abject Pentagon apologies. Defense Secretary Robert Gates saw a public hungry for accountability, not perspective. It was too late to erase the image of the peeling, moldy walls in Building 18, even if it housed just one recovering soldier for every 1,000 living in comfort. The damage was done...