Yes, it was a "false" brotherhood, but can any of us state unequivocally that we wouldn't have done essentially the same horrendous acts?

Three decorated US servicemen found guilty of premeditated murder ... but what exactly is truly "premeditated" while in combat?

And as for the young soldier who broke the silence? "I did the right thing," Jess Cunningham told CNN's AC 360. "I'm not going to hide behind false brotherhood."

Watching AC 260 this week, a full nine months after the March 2007 murders, Cunningham told his Army lawyer what had happened at the canal. Eventually, the three sergeants shown above would be convicted of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.

"These men are not heroes. They're not saviors," Cunningham said.

Perhaps not, but I do not believe they are first degree murderers either--or whatever our military courts say they are.

First Sgt. John Hatley, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo and Sgt. Michael Leahy are all serving terms at the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Listening to a truly chilling confession on CNN at least three times during the past week, I am more certain than ever that we are wrongly executing the wrong war at the wrong time and at the wrong place. And yes, four "enemy combatants" were probably wrongly executed along with everything else wrongly ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Indeed, is there ever a right time and place to "hate your enemy"?

I suppose, before this story is drained for all it's worth (to CNN), we will have been subjected to all 23½ hours of tape obtained (somehow) by CNN Cable News.

And shocking as it might sound to some of you, I say, "Go on and expose everything possible. CNN!" We must know the truth to understand what is right ... and wrong.