SEAL Aquitted of Assaulting Detainee

Matthew McCabe, the navy Seal who was accused of punching an Iraqi detainee, has been aquitted. He was accused of punching a detainee in the stomach, as told by the governments witness, Kevin Demartino. The detainee, by the name of Ahmed Hashim Abed, was convicted of orchestrating the murders of four U.S. contractors and hanging their burning bodies from a bridge. The two navy SEALs present while McCabe supposedly hit the detainee reported that they didn't see him hit Abed, and Demartino did not immediatly report the incident, and eventually did report it because he did not feel that he was doing what God wanted.

Am I the only person who thinks that even if the SEAL did punch the Iraqi detainee he should not have been prosecuted in the first place? This Ahmed Hashim Abed character sounds like a nasty piece of work to me, and if anything a punch in the stomach does not sound like such a bad deal. I do not think it is up to us to protect the rights of enemies of the state to such an extent that a navy SEAL can be tried for being to rough with someone like that. He killed four U.S. contractors in Fallujah and hung there burning bodies from a bridge for crying out loud! I will admit, two other SEALs who didn't see anything sounds a little fishy, as though they might have been just covering for their buddy, and in all likelyhood McCabe probably did actually punch the detainee, but for that i would like to shake his hand. This guy Abed is a homocidal maniac and deserves to be treated as such.