I refuse to believe, until further proof, that some American soldier just walked in and started killing simply for the sake of killing....however, stranger things have happened, and with the likes of MAJ Hasan, the little fag in the wikileaks case, etc within the ranks, nothing would suprise me.
Methinks the whole story hasn't been told yet, but if this breaks as hard as it is on Fox/CNN as it is on BBC and Sky News as it is now.....watch out.
I’m surprised there haven’t been more cases. our young men and women are trained as warriors, then shackled and turned into non-retributive targets. It has to take a tremendous emotional toll to see us ignoring the atrocities of the enemy (if you can still refer to them as “enemy”, and punishing our guys for defending themselves in hot zones or for burning “sacred” korans whie ordering the burning of Bibles as a concession to the enemy. It sickens me as a retired AF troop and I was never put in harms way.
Agreed. And I’m afraid neither side will tell us the truth. The muzzies won’t because they lie and want to hit us anyway they can and our side due to fear of upsetting the muzzies. Most likely it was justified as a part of a war, like you said, terrorists hiding behind skirts and chilren, but our higher ups have been hit with the lefts poliitcal correctness.
It’s not inconceivable that somebody should snap. But it’s not inconceivable that the MSM is doing what it does best, too.
Ah, yes. The strategy that worked so well in quelling the violence after the supposed trash burning incident.
What was it Einstein said? Something about the very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
Besides, I thought Urkel was bringin' the troops home.
Afghanistan shouldn’t even exist. It should be turned into a parking lot.
All hell is going to break loose.
Libs are having an orgasm over this.
I wonder if the individual is a muslim.
As expected, I’ve read reports of purported eyewitnesses who say they saw a group of drunk and laughing Americans.
I heard Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid use the plural when referring to the alleged shooter. I tried to find his quote online, but the word (”soldiers,” I believe) has been replaced with an editorial singular “service member.”
A) If true, Major PR Crisis putting troops including friends of mine in that hell hole country in the Marines at risk.
B) Another Obama Apology Tour, maybe with Sandra Fluke as his opening act.
C) If this guy did go nuts and shot a bunch of people for no reason, he should face the same consequences as any other war criminal.
D) I know a lot of folks here are heated but by making disgusting comments you embarrass everyone who calls this site home. Thank you mods for deleting lunatic comments!
I wonder what his name was.
Some have said it earlier, I will say it in my words
When ONE American says something, Muslims kill each other and threaten to kill ALL Americans because of the action and WORDS of ONE American.
We are told we MUST try to understand the rage and how WE caused the bad wwords or actions.
When will someone tell MUSLIMS that THEIR words and actions cause this and that THEY must consider what their words or actions were that caused these events?
On top of Obama getting ready to free the Gitmo Talibam, it is definitely time to pull out and go Ripley on the whole mess.
Ya think we will ever learn if this was an out-of-the-closet soldier? Or something derived from this Obama policy change.
The pinko libs will make this part of an SAT question.
“Johnny the US soldier has killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children. How many adults did Johnny kill?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 8
D. The US military should be eliminated.
Don't be surprised if Leon Panetta sets into motion this soldier being tried by a World Court.. He already set the stage for it in his comments last week, right?
I'll take a guess.
Afghan "allies" killing US soldiers because a silly book was burned, too long deployed to hell, problems at home, PTSD, Afghans looking at you funny and they're all armed... add in any that you wish.
I don’t believe this story at all. I trust neither’s side of news flow.
Sounds very hinky to me. American soldiers do not do things like this. What is the soldier’s name? Who was he with? Was he told to do this by some “contractor”—or was he a contractor?
Sounds as if it is a set up, to build on the “burning the Q’ran” hysteria. This sets up a battle cry and recruitment tool for all muslim soldiers to turn on Americans.
This is the way the muslims wage war. Propaganda and hysteria...terrorism.
How do we know it was an American soldier?
Because the Afghans say so? Muslims lie as soon as their lips are moving.
I read the Daily Mail article on this, and based on that, it sounds like he snapped. It was just one soldier, right? If it was a mission to get a terrorist, multiple soldiers would have been there. The article said he went back to the base after and turned himself in.
This really is terrible. Nine children and three women lost their lives in addition to three men. I think we can surmise that at least the women and children were innocent, probably the men too. One man lost his entire family. He was gone and came back to all eleven of his family members dead. That’s horrific. I just can’t fathom it.
The whole goal of this nation building is to get the locals to trust us, and things like this do not help at all. I forsee protests at least as bad, if not worse, than the Koran burnings. The Taliban has already declared they will avenge, and angry locals could get behind them. With attitudes over there, they could very well take it out on the U.S. military as a whole instead of realizing that it was one soldier gone rogue.