Reply #34: If His Actions, Sir, Did Fall Within The Rules Of Engagement

[The Magistrate]

Then these are so poorly drawn as to border on the criminal themselves.

The facts remain that the Sergeant's men killed upwards of a dozen non-combatants before they managed to kill a single armed man. On his own testimony he made no attempt whatever to determine if non-combatants were present in the buildings he ordered stormed, and they were stormed in a manner that made no attempt to minimize casualties to non-combatants. He acted in a manner appropriate to a 'clean' battlefield; he was not on such a battlefield, and ought to have known he was not.