... another sad casualty in the war on terror ...
Posted on 08/23/2013 2:24:02 PM PDT by Zakeet
An American soldier was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime rampage last year, an attack for which he later apologized and called an "act of cowardice."
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012.
Bales pleaded guilty to the killings in June in a deal that spared him the death penalty, and a sentencing jury of six military personnel deliberated less than two hours on Friday before deciding he should spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Defense attorneys have said Bales carried out the killings after suffering a breakdown under the pressure of the last of his four deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. They have said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury even before shipping off to Kandahar province.
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... another sad casualty in the war on terror ...
Two years ago I found a nest of rattlesnake babies that had just hatched and I poured gasoline on the nest and lit it on fire to make sure those rattlesnake babies never lived long enough to harm my children.
Just saying.
Let’s compare the sentences. This one and the pig$h!t deathcultist who killed fellow soldiers.
Kill them all! Nits make lice!-John Chivington
SAD.
The problem is, unlike Bales’ murderous rampage, you burning that one rattlesnake nest didn’t piss off a billion other rattlesnakes who are now even more determined to harm your children.
four combat tours...The guy snapped. Cut him a break.
four combat tours...The guy snapped. Cut him a break.
Four combat tours where our Soldiers are not allowed to kill the enemy.
I agree. Give the guy a break.
“The problem is, unlike Bales’ murderous rampage, you burning that one rattlesnake nest didn’t piss off a billion other rattlesnakes who are now even more determined to harm your children.”
Funny thing is I can always get more gasoline.
Brilliant post. Thank you.
Yet Manning who gave out information that may have lead to the deaths of hundreds of our troops gets 33 yrs? With parole in 11? And a taxpayer funded sex change?
Justice?
No women, no kids. There’s no mitigation for that.
“Being charged with murder in a war zone is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”
The only reason he is getting life is because of the Obama regime.
Oh good. Now we have justification for the abortionist who are mostly killing babies who will grow up to be gangsta's anyway. God is proud of your reasoning.
“Oh good. Now we have justification for the abortionist who are mostly killing babies who will grow up to be gangsta’s anyway. God is proud of your reasoning.”
I lose all sense of perspective when I see a threat to my children and I won’t apologize for it. Muslims have made themselves a threat to my children. That’s their decision and it’s one they are free to change anytime they want.
Not if they are a child and not if they are dead. You don't exterminate people based on how you think they will turn out. I'm anti-muslim but I know Muslims who have turn to Christ. I'm sure your outlook was fairly close to 1930's Germany.
Thanks, now I understand the “he was an abused child and didn’t have a father” argument in murder cases.
Funny he was one of the very few who got caught doing personal and mass murder?
simply put: You do the crime, you do time. 16, mostly women and children, in the middle of the night? Horrors of My Lai. Thank god, no rapes and torture.
He should’ve received a medal.
From the Wikipedia entry on the massacre:
Eleven members of Abdul Samad's family were killed in a house in Najiban village, including his wife, four girls between the ages of 2 and 6, four boys between 8 and 12, and two other relatives.
When, exactly did the "four girls between the ages of 2 and 6 [and] four boys between 8 and 12" make the decision to be a threat to you or your family? When did they have an opportunity to change?
Cheering the deaths of children who were dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and shot in the face makes you no better than the people you claim to be against. Not to mention, thing like this make it much more difficult to convince anyone to "change anytime they want."
“He should’ve received a medal.”
I, for one, am glad that our armed forces don’t give out medals for pulling 2-year-olds out of bed, shooting them in the face, and setting their bodies on fire.
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