Reply #62: I believe that you have nailed it

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...but rather than get to the bottom of it, the response was to hustle him out of the service to try and wash the Army's hands of it.

It certainly seems that way. Now we are finding out that a cover-up involving several officers is now being investigated in the Haditha (sp) massacre.

The discovery of their dead, mutilated comrades probably turned their fear into white hot terror.

Indeed. But at least in the case of Green, there may well have been some guilt exhibited when he attended the funeral of Babineau. Of course that guilt was related to how Green's (and others)horrific actions may very well have lead to the horrific deaths of his brothers in arms. Would he have felt any guilt surrounding the rapes and murders if his comrades were not mutilated and killed for his actions?

The sad thing is, the soldiers who were maimed and killed probably didn't have anything to do with it

Yep. Worse yet is the possibility that Menchaca, Tucker, or Babineau was going to report the news of the crimes to the chain of command--or already had--and that is why they were left alone in the triangle of death. The military has reported that their being alone was not SOP, that regulations had been violated. How high up the chain of command did that decision go?