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‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember it being Nixon who pardoned it down to house arrest a couple years later, but Wikipedia says something different. IDK. Fuck Nixon.

The Wikipedia article says

[Lieutenant William Calley Jr.] was originally given a life sentence but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after U.S. president Richard Nixon commuted his sentence.

So it seems to say how you remember, no?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Oop, you’re right. I didn’t read the intro and it wasn’t mentioned lower down; in the main article body it just says the secretary of the army paroled him in 1974. But yeah it says Nixon.

At least Nixon left him with house arrest. In today’s climate he might have been pardoned by Trump like those Navy Seals and hosting a show on Newsmax or something.