December 4, 2006

O you Iraqis of the Green Zone. All you false Iraqis earning greenbacks as your sisters are raped and your brothers are hanged.

Where is your honor?

In the Philippines, a US soldier rapes a girl and is put on trial IN MANILA.

In Iraq, several US soldiers rape a girl, burn her body, butcher her family and try and hide the fact and you cannot even request they be put on trial in Iraq.

And then you cheer the trial of Saddam.

We will cheer your trials in the streets of Baghdad, Najaf, Mosul, Ramadi, Hiyt and Basra.

Yallah, take leave of Iraq while you can.

U.S. Marine convicted in Philippines By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer

A U.S. Marine was convicted Monday of raping a Filipino woman and sentenced to 40 years in prison, ending an emotional trial that has strained U.S.-Philippine ties and tested a joint military pact.

Three other Marines and their Filipino driver were acquitted of complicity.

Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith, 21, from St. Louis, was the first American soldier convicted of wrongdoing in the Philippines since the country shut down U.S. bases here the early 1990s. His lawyer, Ricardo Diaz, said he would appeal.

Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier, Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood and Lance Cpl. Dominic Duplantis, who had been accused of cheering Smith on, were freed.

Smith, who was in the country for joint training, did not deny having sex with the 23-year-old woman but testified that it was consensual.

The court said the woman, known publicly by her pseudonym "Nicole," was so intoxicated that she could not have consented to sex, pointing to testimony that Smith carried her to a van where the incident occurred on Nov. 1, 2005.