Posted on 05/12/2009 6:08:07 AM PDT by libstripper
An American Army sergeant shot and killed five fellow soldiers following an altercation at a military counseling center in Iraq Monday, officials said. [First sentence only, due to AP copyright policy.]
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"The names of the victims and shooter were not released."
I continue to assume the murderer was Yoshi Toronoga, operating under the alias of Jimmy Cagney.
Back to the future. Talking heads are doing a Viet Nam already.
Was the clinic a gun-free zone?
And the Hollywood myths roll on.
Oh, and BTW: the shooter is identified as SPC Emily Yoder, a grandmother from Intercourse, PA, with ties to known Amish insurgent groups. She was reported to have clung bitterly to her rifle.
{ /sarc}
The clinic was a gun free zone. The killer had his gun taken away but returned with a rifle and opened fire on his fellow troops including two clinic workers.
It will be days before we get the whole truth about this story and in the meantime the msm is given time to create it’s own ‘truth’ about the killings.
Oh,yes....we'll get a story all right.Probably fairly soon.But under Commander-In-Chief Hussein are you sure it will be the *true* story.I sure as heck am not!
I have a feeling this is going to be some kind of hate crime...the killer obviously snapped and targeted the clinic as a source of his problems. I find it interesting that the clinic had multiple patients there at the same time. Leads me to believe that it was a walk-in clinic for anyone who feels they need help. Type of place that makes a great out when there is work to be done. I’ll even bet the patients did not have to go through their chain of command before going to the clinic. Can you imagine if we had these clinics in England in May 1944...they would have been full.
This is so sad. A lot of the guys over there are from the Reserves and they’re not “regular Military.” I know of a group from here who left the Reserves when they learned their Unit was going back for a second tour. Every one of the guys who quit were in the Reserves so that they’d have some kind of retirement income. One guy was 4 years shy of being able to retire (20 years?) and another had 6 years left. The guy who told this to me said they’d all discussed it and decided it just wasn’t worth the risk. They felt that regular military should be fighting and the reserves should be replacing them at the military installations here in the States.
I still think we should have either pulled out as soon as we captured Saddam or dropped a “real” bomb and been done with it. Hang the collateral damage, it would have saved a lot of USofA citizens’ lives.
Obama obviously hasn’t done much for morale over there.
I think he is at least partially to blame.
I KNOW Bush would be blamed if he were still president.
A guy named Russell according to another story I read. 3rd. time over, That aint good. We cannot keep sending these people to war and at risk over and over until they snap.
Our Army is too smal to continue to fight for year after year using the same people over and over, and Obama’s war in Afghanistan is not going to help.
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