Ultimately the original poster and all his supporters have not one clue what combat of that nature is like.

It doesn't matter how much training you receive, seeing hacked off body parts from your oppo's hanging from the tree's your patrolling through surprisingly has an effect on your ability to be nice to the perpetrators.

If you've never played the game don't scrutinise the rules.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

That's another bullsh*t argument imo, should we not be able to criticise politicians because we are not politicians ourselves, or bankers because we haven't 'played the game'?

Edited by coulsdoneagle (29 Mar 2017 1.40pm)

I can't even be bothered, Cucking has said it all.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

Have to agree with you dannyh people who have never been in a combat zone just do not understand the pressure when coming under fire and being attacked. Its a s***ty job at the best of times and I can remember many times when we came under fire and were attacked in Aden, Suez, Iraq, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and many other hot spots. We did our job as you probably have and did it as second nature. The Geneva convection never entered our minds. The enemy was the enemy and it was either him or us so you shot them and made sure they did not shoot anymore of our lads. Sgt Blackman must have been under a lot of pressure having had a really bad few weeks and his men getting killed around him. The b****** he shot was trying to kill them and him but got shot by helicopter fire which once hit by those rounds had little or no chance of survival. Sgt Blackman put him out of his misery and probably saved him a lot of pain so really he did him a favour. The lad who filmed it was a bit naïve by letting the footage leak out. We had a saying when I was a Marine "what happens in war stays in the war zone" and we did not talk about it except in a debrief. I think quite honestly that the poster and some others should not be so quick to run Sgt Blackman down as he was serving in a very difficult war zone and was under immense pressure both his command and what had happened prior to incident that took place. In his shoes many of you WOULD have done the same thing I can assure you about that.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

I'm fed up with these namby-pamby tabloid newspapers refusing to take a stand against the elitist, out-of-touch judiciary (some of whom are openly gay, and play badminton).

Unlike our courts, The Daily Mail is soft on crime.

It should start running headlines demanding that the establishment MUST ignore these oh so right-on bleeding heart snowflakes who protest on behalf of criminals, and instead call for convicted killers to serve their full sentences and NOT be freed prematurely.

Guess that's why they have military court martials tribunals. Once he was convicted of murder, the sentence could only be a life sentence (mandatory for anyone convicted of murder). Its the Army service that convicted him or murder.

Oddly its civilian courts that have reversed their decision and quashed the murder conviction (the Royal Courts of Justice).

Personally, I cannot judge the guy, quite rightly, I've never been in that situation. I don't agree with what he did, but I can understand why he did it.

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