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Jury made a 'fair' decision.

28 (21.5%)

Jury could have been less 'lenient'.

9 (6.9%)

Jury was way too 'lenient'.

6 (4.6%)

I do not agree with the decision made by the Jury, but still respect it.

8 (6.2%)

Jury should be hung.

6 (4.6%)

Evidence obtained via torture should have been used.

8 (6.2%)

The US should use Special Courts for Terrorists.

10 (7.7%)

Special exceptions to the law should be given for Terrorists.

1 (0.8%)

Special exceptions to how justice is handled should be given for Terrorists.

3 (2.3%)

I don't care.... or something...

7 (5.4%)

Jury has been too harsh.

3 (2.3%)

Terrorists are soldiers and you can't judge them in court.

11 (8.5%)

Terrorists are not soldiers, they have their own special classification.

5 (3.8%)

Terrorists are not soldiers, they have same rights as any other basic human.

25 (19.2%)

Total Members Voted: 61

[Leafsnail]

Looking at the statistics for WW2 casualties, it seems to be the huge numbers of civilians killed in China (9 million), Poland (2.5 million), Yugoslavia (1.3 million) and the USSR (19 million) which really swayed the death figures.  Since most of those were probably intentional, though, it's difficult to apply that the the thousands of civilians being accidentally killed today.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I was under the impression the vast majority of civilian casualties currently come about as a result of the glorified gang warfare between rival revolutionary groups, since while you get incidents with misidentification of targets, and isolated cases of soldiers going batshit and trying to revive the age old tradition of raping and pillaging, those tend to have a very small number of casualties, especially compared to bombs going off in mosques or organized death squads. Unlike WWII, we (with the exception of Israel) don't deliberately carpet bomb civilians, and unlike Vietnam, we (again, with the exception of Israel) don't deliberately target civilians in a misguided attempt to take out insurgent guerrillas.

[Leafsnail]

But it still happens rather a lot.  It's not so much intentional... more a terrible feeling of indifference to the lives of the civilians we're meant to be protecting.

Think wedding or oil tanker incident.

[Neonivek]

But it still happens rather a lot.  It's not so much intentional... more a terrible feeling of indifference to the lives of the civilians we're meant to be protecting.

Think wedding or oil tanker incident.

True it is more that they just don't care what civilians they kill then them actively killing civilians in this case. (This is ignoring the wars between War on Terror and WW2)

Then again their enemy isn't supported by the civilians so killing them on mass doesn't help.

Though DANG have they done some pretty horrible stuff... Wedding and Oil Tanker isn't the worst things they done.