GOP congressman, defending accused war criminal, says he ‘killed probably hundreds of civilians’ in Iraq combat, including women and children
California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, defending a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, said his own unit"killed probably hundreds of civilians," unintentionally, during his 2004 tour as a Marine field artillery officer in Fallujah, Iraq.
Ordinarily, it is not a crime to inflict accidental casualties while firing at enemy positions. Estimates of the number of civilians killed during and after the invasion of Iraq vary widely but are generally in the low six figures. “Eddie did one bad thing, that I’m guilty of too, taking a picture with a body and saying something stupid and then texting that,” Hunter said frankly. “He took a picture with the body with his knife out and texted it to some buddies and said, ‘I got this one with my knife.’”
While Hunter admitted to taking photos like Gallagher, he is not subjected to UCMJ because he is no longer in active duty, says Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale University,
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