It happens.
Sanity is relative.
This isn't about every bad thing you can dig up. It's about ONE specific incident. To cloud the issue is to propagandize it.
and what kind of "courage" does it take to kill innocent women and children?
Based on how Americans have reacted to these incidents in the past, its clear most Americans don't consider it a crime when their soldiers go on murderous rampages killing innocent civilians. This American soldier will probably face little to no consequences for his actions.
Many American soldiers and leaders deserved to go away for life, yet few face any serious consequences for committing crimes as bad as this or worse. What this American soldier did is no worse that what American soldiers did at Haditha. In that case, all but one plea bargained out of serious consequences. One American soldier got a minor slap on the wrist. In the Haditha case and this case, the victims were unarmed civilians. In both cases, innocent men, women and children including babies were gunned down ruthlessly in cold blood. IN both cases, the criminals responsible gunned down mothers with babies in their arms as they begged for their lives. This case is the same in brutality, justification and scale as the Haditha massacre.Don't be an idiot. The guy is deservedly going away for life and you can bet on that.
So killing the 5 or so children was just so he could put more notches on his kills rep, sad and trueHe is a trained US soldier, and 16 people dead. What do you think?
It's about ONE specific incident
Excuse me? I wasn't talking about the civilians getting killed. I was referring to Cliff's comments about soldiers' minds snapping.that is a tad casual when one is talking about destroying that many civilian lives.
Is the attitude the same when US civilians and troops are slaughtered??? Let's face it......that would only be fair.
If this is representative of a cultures or nations attitude towards slaughter in other lands ......little wonder that people (of the aggressor nation)have become jaded about LIFE and Murder , mass killings . Also little wonder the nation doing this has lost its ethical core and the worlds respect along with it.
And you do quite repetitively and endlessly, as if we haven't all read your mainly one-sided posts.This incident is hardly unique. I can reference hundreds of incidents where American soldiers have gunned down innocent civilians in recent years which are just as bad or worse than this incident.
That's it. Dodge the topic of this thread by leading in to a rampage of posts dragging up issues of even remotely related topics.Meanwhile, another American mass murderer who started an unprovoked war which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians not only walks around free, but gets paid appearance fees.
US Soldier Describes Thrill Kill of Innocent Civilians in Afghanistan - ABC News
The Pentagon tonight apologised after shocking new details emerged of how American soldiers formed a 'death squad' to randomly murder Afghan civilians and mutilate their corpses.
- Rolling Stone reveals how U.S. troops murdered Afghan civilians
- Soldiers cut off 15-year-old boy's finger and kept it as trophy
- Video captures U.S. troops cheering as airstrike kills two Afghan civilians
- New pictures show dead Afghan man's head on a stick
- Soldier stabbed the body of a dead Afghan civilian
- Military tried to pull pictures out of circulation to avoid another Abu Ghraib
- Army says photos are 'in striking contrast' to its standards and values
An investigation by Rolling Stone magazine details how senior officers failed to stop troops killing Afghans and keeping their body parts as trophies.
In one horrific episode, the magazine claims troops threw a grenade at an innocent Afghan boy before chopping off his finger and later using it as 'gambling chip' in a game of cards.
Shocking video shows U.S. troops cheering as airstrike blows up Afghan civilians | Mail Online
As Kathy Kelly explained on Democracy Now! this morning, the act was not an exceptional incident; "in fact, this tragedy reflects and encapsulates the U.S. war of choice in Afghanistan."
“President Obama and U.S. military brass are depicting a U.S. soldier killing 16 Afghan civilians as an exceptional event. But in fact, this tragedy reflects and encapsulates the U.S. war of choice in Afghanistan. Groups of U.S. soldiers have been breaking into Afghan homes and killing people, without cause or provocation, for the last 11 years. Civilians have been afflicted by aerial bombing by helicopter gunships, drone surveillance and attacks, and night raids.
“In the recent past, Afghan civilians have been appalled and agitated by news of U.S. soldiers that went on killing sprees, cutting off body parts of their victims to save as war trophies. They’ve been repulsed by photos of U.S. soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans whom they have killed. The burning of the Quran further enraged civilians. One of the greatest factors contributing to public dismay and hostility towards the foreign forces is the practice of night raids. As many as 40 of these raids happen around the country on some nights, and the U.S. military reports an average of 10 a night. U.S. /NATO soldiers burst into people’s homes and attack people in their sleep."
Massacre of Civilians Ignites Fury in Afghanistan
'Let Us Live in Peace,' say Afghans who want US to leave
- Common Dreams staff
Despair, frustration and palpable outrage hangs over Afghanistan on Monday, a day after a US soldier left his military base near Kandahar and massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children. Reporters and investigators are still seeking absolute clarity that only one US soldier was involved, while the Taliban has vowed revenge against the 'sick-minded American savages' behind the attack.
Residents sat with the bodies of shooting victims in the Panjwai district of southern Afghanistan. (Mustafa Khan/European Pressphoto Agency) The lone soldier is now in US custody, but there were calls Monday for any and all guilty US soldiers to be handed over to Afghan authorities for a public trial. Above all, the terrible crime has led many to renew calls for an end to the decade long war and for US forces to leave Afghanistan at once
I doubt that any sane person could do something this horrendous.