Tales of Two Soldiers

The last of the soldiers involved in the 2006 rape and murder of an Iraqi family has been convicted:

A military jury found a soldier guilty of rape and murder in the slayings of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family, despite testimony that cast doubt on his involvement.

Jurors deliberated much of Friday evening before convicting Army Pfc. Jesse Spielman, 22, of conspiracy to commit rape, rape, housebreaking with intent to commit rape and four counts of felony murder.

He faces a mandatory life sentence when a sentencing hearing begins Saturday. The jury will decide if he will be eligible for parole.

There actually one former soldier, Steven Green that is still waiting to go to court in Kentucky.  He is the alleged ring leader and the person that murdered the family.  He faces the death penalty and should rightfully receive it if convicted. 

The media has been splashing headlines for over a year about these disgraceful criminals while at the same time ignoring soldiers like Captain Brennan Goltry who deserve headlines:

It wasn’t the first time he’d been shot. And it wasn’t the first time he’d led his men through an ambush.

But, for the actions he took on one particular moonlit night in Samarra in February, Capt. Brennan Goltry has been marked as a hero. Goltry was awarded the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts and the Combat Infantryman Badge in a ceremony Tuesday at a small combat outpost in a city still very much in the middle of the fight.

Read the whole thing, but thank goodness for the Stars & Stripes because they regularly publish stories about American heroes that the main stream media would rather ignore and pretend does not exist.  However, great soldiers and Americans like CPT Goltry do exist and populate the ranks of the military at a vastly higher percentage than the cretins involved in the 2006 murders.