[SoldierDad]

Before you sit in judgement of this man, you should try and put yourself into the shoes he wore. Since all the facts are NOT yet out (if all the facts will, indeed, come to light), your pronouncement of judgement is ill-timed and ill-advised.

As neither you nor I have any way to know what this man has lived through in four tours of combat in two war zones, WE have NO right to pronounce judgement of this man. It is MY opinion, as a parent of a combat soldier, that, given this administration's lack of support for this war, NONE of our soldiers should continue to be placed in the position of fighting against an invisible enemy for a populace that has no interest in freedom or liberty.

[KantianBurke]

You’re mistaking not giving Bales the benefit of the doubt with casting judgement. His friends and family will naturally lean towards the former. Those of us who are not within that tragic circle will take our own counsel with the info at our disposal.

At the very least you don’t help your case when you ask for understanding since he had been deployed as much as he had. If he’s innocent of the charges what relevance does that have? He either killed unarmed men women and children in the dead of night or he didn’t.

[SoFloFreeper]

Dude, did you even read what I wrote? I did NOT sit in judgement of this man, but I did analyze the job the Oval Office Occupier was doing.