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It is not abismal treatment. Listen to any Marine officer on this matter, their footage and quotes are out there. Just google Haditha. Extreme stress is no excuse for killing civillians in cold blood, which these marines have been accused of doing. There is a fair deal of debate about haditha and whether the allegations are even true. For instance, it has been rumored that the civillians were actually killed crossfire between marines and insurgents. However, it must be taken more seriously than what you are suggesting.

If these marines are proven guilty in military court, they are not going to, and should not, get a slap on the wrist. I'm not going to blab on about conditioning and biopsychology (god knows I could). Extreme stress is no excuse if these allegations are true. These are allegations of murder. These men are proffessional soldiers, accused of killing unarmed civillians. Keep in mind that there are many, many marines in Iraq, many platoons suffering the same losses in the exact same manner as these men. Yet these marines did not go on killing sprees. I will re-iterate. Extreme stress, the kind which is "unimaginable" as you put it, is no excuse for murder.