Three months for beating a prisoner to death

Informationclearinghouse [AP]: A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating to death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.

In a plea bargain, Army prosecutors agreed not to pursue a charge of maltreatment against Spc. Brian E. Cammack. Cammack also agreed to testify in other cases related to the deaths of two inmates at the Bagram Control Point.

Cammack was sentenced Friday during a court-martial at Fort Bliss. He will be demoted to private, fined more than $3,200 and given a bad-conduct discharge.

"I have come to realize what I did was wrong," Cammack said. Read more

DB: Sentences like this - representing the rule not the exception - expose just how RACIST in nature Bush's Wars really are. Like the Geek before him, the Raghead is a worthless sack of shit - and that's official. These sentences are so utterly laughable, no one is even PRETENDING to dispense justice.

Why are the sentences so short? Because they're imposed by racists and because there is a lot more guilt out there - at the highest levels (Donald) - than anyone wants to admit. If justice were ever permitted to get her teeth into the situation it might mean that not only were senior military figures held accountable, but senior lawmakers too. The flack that they face from a couple of items in the NYT or Guardian concerning light sentencing is nothing on what they would face if found to be guilty of promoting torture themselves. To impose heavy sentences on their own instruments of torture and murder would be counterproductive, and would only serve to encourage those who would also bring the politicians and the generals to account. Its called a conspiracy. They are looking after their guys.