"Ami Silberman" wrote in message ...
The Geneva conventions, the FM on the Law of Land Warfare, and a number of
Army Regulations make it abundantly clear that those things are not
acceptable. There was a failure to properly educate the soldiers involved in
the correct and legal procedures.

Wrong. Some of those accused *claim* they were improperly
educated but that is almost certainly not the case. Every
soldier in the US gets taught the fundamentals of the
Geneva Conventions very early in basic training. Ignorance
cannot possibly be an excuse here, they knowingly did wrong.