Has this guy forgot what side he's on? And should politicians speak out on legal cases at all? America has sacrificed enough to free Iraq, sacrificing these guards would have been been tragic.

Quote:BAGHDAD – The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A lawyer for one guard, noting that word of the intended appeal came in Iraq, accused the Obama administration of political expediency and the U.S. was pursuing an innocent man, rather than justice.

Blackwater security contractors were guarding U.S. diplomats when the guards opened fire in Nisoor Square, a crowded Baghdad intersection, on Sept. 16, 2007. Seventeen people were killed, including women and children, in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq.

Biden expressed his "personal regret" for the shooting and said the Obama administration was disappointed by the dismissal. "A dismissal is not an acquittal," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100123/ap_o...rosecution

(01-25-2010 10:56 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Has this guy forgot what side he's on? And should politicians speak out on legal cases at all? America has sacrificed enough to free Iraq, sacrificing these guards would have been been tragic.

Quote:BAGHDAD – The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.

Biden's announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A lawyer for one guard, noting that word of the intended appeal came in Iraq, accused the Obama administration of political expediency and the U.S. was pursuing an innocent man, rather than justice.

Blackwater security contractors were guarding U.S. diplomats when the guards opened fire in Nisoor Square, a crowded Baghdad intersection, on Sept. 16, 2007. Seventeen people were killed, including women and children, in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq.

Biden expressed his "personal regret" for the shooting and said the Obama administration was disappointed by the dismissal. "A dismissal is not an acquittal," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100123/ap_o...rosecution

Tone deaf idiots. I can understand saying this to Iraqi leaders in private but certainly not for US domestic consumption. But I guess that since Obama considers himself the leader of the world, what difference does it make what his own country thinks.

Who mishandled evidence? Should they be held accountable?