US Soldier Who Massacred 16 Afghan Villagers Grew Hateful of 'Everyone Who Isn’t American'

[enhanced_deficit]

Did anyone envision this in Obama team when he escalated the "good war" in Afghanistan?


Robert Bales (https://news.vice.com/topic/robert-bales)

US Soldier Who Massacred 16 Afghan Villagers Grew Hateful of 'Everyone Who Isn’t American'

June 8, 2015 | 4:00 pm
The US soldier who was convicted of mass murdering 16 Afghan villagers while on deployment in 2012, revealed he was "consumed by war" and antipathy for anyone who wasn't American.
In a letter sent late last year to Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales begged the Army to overturn or reduce his August 2013 sentence of life without parole, writing that he "would do anything not to be the bad guy."

"I planted war and hate for the better part of 10 years and harvested violence," he wrote. "After being in prison two years, I understand that what I thought was normal was the farthest thing from being normal."
The letter, obtained (http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/06/06/3827362_robert-bales-makes-bid-for-mercy.html?rh=1) by Seattle's News Tribune newspaper through a FOIA request, failed to sway Lanza, who refused to modify the plea deal Bales took in order to escape the death penalty. The case will now be referred to the Army Court of Criminal Appeal, a spokesman said Friday.
Bales, 41, an Ohio native and father of two, shot a total of 22 people, including 17 women and children, in two nighttime raids on two villages in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province in March 2012. He set some of the bodies on fire. The widespread outrage in the wake of the killings forced the US Army to temporarily suspend operations in the region.

In the letter, Bales said that his PTSD triggered heavy drinking and use of sleeping pills and steroids, which in turn contributed to his paranoia and the innate rage he felt towards locals. Over the course of three earlier deployments in Iraq, he grew to be suspicious and hateful of "everyone who isn't American," he wrote.
...Since his imprisonment at the Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Bales has reportedly been baptized and become focused on Christianity, he wrote. He has also been working toward completing a bachelor's degree and learning how to be a barber.

https://news.vice.com/article/us-soldier-who-massacred-16-afghan-villagers-grew-hateful-of-everyone-who-isnt-american






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Why suicide rate among veterans may be more than 22 a day
People like Levi Derby, who hanged himself in his grandfather's garage in Illinois on April 5, 2007. He was haunted, says his mother, Judy Casper, by an Afghan child's death.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/21/us/22-veteran-suicides-a-day/


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[twomp]

Hateful of everyone who isn't American? Sounds like he would make a good South Carolina Senator!

[amy31416]

Fracking hell, what a messed up pile of crap. On one hand, you have to blame him for his actions--on the other, you have to question why he's this way. If you consider the latter, it's the government, if you consider the former, he's a psychopath.

[twomp]

Hateful of everyone who isn't American? Sounds like he would make a good South Carolina Senator!

After thinking over my statement, I have to say that it was a bit unfair. I was referring to Lindsey Graham and I feel like he hates Americans as well.

[enhanced_deficit]

Afghan war now more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war ever was (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?422420-Afghan-war-now-more-unpopular-with-Americans-than-the-Iraq-war-ever-was&)




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/07/w-AfghanistanPoll26.jpg (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/07/w-AfghanistanPoll26.jpg)Washington Post/ABC News poll








Fracking hell, what a messed up pile of crap. On one hand, you have to blame him for his actions--on the other, you have to question why he's this way. If you consider the latter, it's the government, if you consider the former, he's a psychopath.

The two may not be mutually exclusive necessarily.
But no one said spreading freedom was easy.


After thinking over my statement, I have to say that it was a bit unfair. I was referring to Lindsey Graham and I feel like he hates Americans as well.

But he loves wars.

[enhanced_deficit]

Hateful of everyone who isn't American? Sounds like he would make a good South Carolina Senator!

On a different note, not sure if it is karma but he is being mistreated by Trump these days.


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Jul 22, 2015 Lindsey Graham Burns, Chops, Blends, Smashes and Drops Cellphonehttp://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/07/22/lindsey-graham-burns-chops-blends-smashes-and-drops-cellphone/

[Ronin Truth]

The Afghans didn't send you over there, Goober. DUH! WAKE UP!

[enhanced_deficit]

Fracking hell, what a messed up pile of crap. On one hand, you have to blame him for his actions--on the other, you have to question why he's this way. If you consider the latter, it's the government, if you consider the former, he's a psychopath.

In other cases the two may not be mutually exclusive.

http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/1.664469%21/image/2736802587.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_460346/2736802587.jpg




Former soldier convicted of raping, killing Iraqi girl and her family commits suicide in prison (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/soldier-convicted-raping-killing-iraqi-girl-commits-suicide-prison-article-1.1619054#ixzz2tlpME82Y)

Steven Dale Green, 28, was found hanged in his Arizona prison cell on Sunday. He raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in 2006, then killed her and three family members.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 7:44 PM

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1619053.1392770269%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/iraq-rape-slaying.jpg Mark Humphrey/AP In this April 29, 2009 file photo, former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green is escorted to the courthouse on the third day of his trial in Paducah, Ky. Green, convicted of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to kill her family, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 in prison in Arizona, likely of suicide.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former soldier sentenced to life for raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.
Steven Dale Green (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Steven+Dale+Green) was the first American soldier charged and convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act — a law signed in 2000 that gives the federal government jurisdiction to pursue criminal cases against American citizens and soldiers for acts committed in foreign lands.

Green was a private in the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line when he deployed to Iraq.
Green and three other soldiers went to the home of an Iraqi family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, near a traffic checkpoint in March 2006. At the home, Green shot and killed three members of the al-Janabi family before becoming the third soldier to rape 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi before killing her. He was convicted and sentenced in 2009.
Three other soldiers. Jesse Spielman, Paul Cortez and James Barker, are serving lengthy sentences in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for their roles in the attack. Each is eligible for parole in 2015.

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[CPUd]

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[enhanced_deficit]

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Thanks to DDG's Nobel Peace prize, wars are coming to end and peace is breaking out.

But other battles rage on.

Ailing vets sue, say toxic burn pits cost them their health (http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/ailing-veterans-sue-war-contractors-saying-toxic-burn-pits-cost/article_4aee2d14-e107-541a-bf4a-739e1fec7380.html)

Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:00 pm

Hundreds of soldiers who’ve come home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now are battling the very companies that helped operate their base camps, claiming constant exposure to toxins from open-air burn pits has wrecked their health.

David Montoya, 44, of Farmington is one of newest litigants suing the companies. Cancer that started in his colon has spread to his lungs, and his doctor told him in February that he had about two years to live. Montoya says the cause of his cancer was contaminated water supplied by the military contractors, and from breathing in smoke from the burn pits.

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[morfeeis]

from a psychological point of view that makes perfect sense; in order to do the things he had to do day in and day out he had to form a strong group connection, the stronger this connection became the more he despised those outside of his group. So as he became forced to do more and more evil deed that he didn't agree with he had to increase his bound with his group and thus increase his dislike for any other group. simply put; he was asked to do some things that he must have felt were evil and in order to make himself not feel evil he had to dehumanize anyone that wasn't of his group.....

[kcchiefs6465]

Why suicide rate among veterans may be more than 22 a day
I'll keep my thoughts civil and simply post this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-hJAMN7UwU

"Right by the cafeteria where lunch was everyday,
where the army had their table and gave free pens away,
I saw those pens a lot,
'Be all that you can be'
Murder a couple families and we'll pay for your degree,
They always mention money as if soldiers come home rich,
They tricked you into killing, and you fell for it."

[kcchiefs6465]

And since Enhanced often correctly links many correlated facets to a single foreign policy issue, there's this:


Q.What are the recent changes made by Congress concerning military recruitment of high school students?

A.Congress has passed two major pieces of legislation that generally require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)1 to give military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as they provide to postsecondary institutions or to prospective employers. LEAs are also generally required to provide students' names, addresses, and telephone listings to military recruiters, when requested.

Q.Where are these statutory requirements found?

A. These requirements are contained in § 9528 of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. § 7908), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. No. 107-110), the education bill Congress recently passed.

These requirements are also contained in 10 U.S.C. § 503, as amended by § 544 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (P.L. No. 107-107), the legislation that provides funding for the nation's armed forces in fiscal year 2002.

hxxp://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/hottopics/ht-10-09-02a.html

If you have kids in public schools, opt out. Preferably, and if possible, of the whole thing but if not you can still opt out of your children's information being given to recruiters. Not that that will stop them from being approached at school. Even Harvard has military recruiters there. They were threatened with public funds not going through.

"No child left behind." Hoo rah.

From the same government source (Department of Education):

Q.How are these requirements under 10 U.S.C. § 503 enforced?

A.In addition to the potential for loss of funds under ESEA noted above for failure to comply with § 9528 of the ESEA, an LEA that denies a military recruiter access to the requested information on students after July 1, 2002, will be subject to specific interventions under 10 U.S.C. § 503.

In this regard, the law requires that a senior military officer (e.g., Colonel or Navy Captain) visit the LEA within 120 days. If the access problem is not resolved with the LEA, the Department of Defense must notify the State Governor within 60 days. Problems still unresolved after one year are reported to Congress if the Secretary of Defense determines that the LEA denies recruiting access to at least two of the armed forces (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, etc.). The expectation is that public officials will work with the LEA to resolve the problem. (emphasis mine)
Well, there's that. They're expected to reconsider if they don't give out student's information (after an enforcer is denied, a capo is contacted to resolve the issue, and the issue being brought before the commission after a failure to resolve is had [that they give out student information to military recruiters by law, that is]).

[Philhelm]

Shameful that the U.S. government would punish its star player in such a manner.