Missing American Military Justice

On Jan. 23, 2006, Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Weishofer Jr. was fined $ 6000.00 and confined to his barracks for 60 days for the death of an Iraqi general. Originally he was charged with the murder of Iraqi Major Gen. Hamed Mowhoush. He killed the general by stuffing him headfirst into a sleeping bag then sat on his chest and then covered the generals mouth with his hand. This was done while interrogating the general in a detention camp in Iraq in 2003. How does an interrogator get answers from someone in a sleeping bag who is headfirst and has the interrogator sitting on his chest and has the detainees mouth covered?

Is this psycho-creep Weishofer representative of the military? But the lack of serious punishment for his crime makes the rest of the military complicit in his criminal behavior. This example of light or non-existant American military justice isn't an aberration or a first. In August 2005 PFC. Willie V. Brand was spared prison time for his part in the beating of 2 prisoners in Afghanistan in 2002. The 2 prisoners died some few days later.

Gee. I wonder if the internet, Al Jazeera or other Arabic broadcasters reported these stories? Of course they have. And that's part of the reason that more Americans are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. The assymmetrical terrorist war brings a brutal symmetrical justice.