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Old 10-16-2010, 07:39 AM   #25
billybob123
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
... and killed a medic
This is the most irritating fallacy of the Khadr case. Christopher Speer (the guy he allegedly killed, which, by the way, is up for debate - no witnesses) was NOT a medic. He was a special forces operative who was trained in combat medicine. The media constantly implies that Speer was an innocent medic - he wasn't. He was as much a combattant as everyone says Khadr was.

That being said, there's no way Khadr gets a fair trial, so I suppose I see why he's going to plead guilty.
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