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Your prime example is one in a million but thanks for playing.
We do not become terrorists. In Country as well as abroad. In war as well as in peace.
We have situations such as this. We have school shootings, terrorist attacks. We have people that just lose it for whatever reasons. Or we have people or organizations that are pure evil. We do not know what caused this US soldier to cross the line. It could have been anything from drinking to a brain injury. We can’t know until we get the complete facts. Why does a Postal Worker kill his co-workers. Each situation has different reasons. At this point I question also why we are pro-longing our stay in a country that is not our friend or obligation. They don’t want us there and are trying to evict us by terrorist acts. Vietnam took a Republican White House to get us out. I guess it will take the same to get us out of Afghanistan. We have got to stop being the World’s Policemen. We should cut off support for all Countries that are not our friends, and some that are supposed to be our friends. But back to the point, Fort hood was a terrorist act. The administration didn’t want to offend their terrorist friends so they tried to call it anything but. But in the end the Duck was a Duck. This Soldier was not a terrorist, he just lost it for whatever reasons.
Skippy
The release of Sergeant Bales’s name, first reported by Fox News, ended an extraordinary six-day blackout of public information about him from the Pentagon, which said it withheld his identity for so long because of concerns about his and his family’s security.
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Pentagon officials, who have been scouring the sergeant’s military and health records for clues, have said little about what they think motivated the killings. But one senior government official said Thursday that Sergeant Bales had been drinking alcohol before the killings and that he might have had marital problems.
“When it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues — he just snapped,” said the official, who had been briefed on the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the sergeant had not yet been charged.
Mr. Browne has disputed those assertions, telling reporters on Thursday that the sergeant’s marriage was sound and questioning reports about drinking. On the day before the shootings, he said, the sergeant had seen a fellow soldier lose his leg from a buried mine.
Mr. Browne, who said he had had a short conversation with Sergeant Bales because he was worried that their phone call was being monitored, added that the sergeant had thought he could avoid this deployment and was upset when he could not.
“The family was counting on him not being redeployed,” Mr. Browne said. “He and the family were told that his tours in the Middle East were over.”
He added, “I think that it would be fair to say that he and the family were not happy that he was going back.”
The Bales family lived in a two-story, wood-frame house beneath tall fir and cedar evergreens in Lake Tapps, an unincorporated section of Pierce County, Wash. Kassie Holland, a neighbor, said that as far as she could tell, they were a happy family and the sergeant was a devoted father to his young children, a daughter, Quincy, and a son, Bobby. “There were no signs,” Ms. Holland said when asked whether Mr. Bales seemed troubled
More information is coming out about him. He was having financial problems at the least. But whether he had LOTS of problems or just a few, the fact that he had been deployed FOUR TIMES would be enough to cause this "stress".
As far as I'm concerned, this man was a hero who had reached his breaking point. My heart aches for the families of those who were killed, but my heart aches just as much for this man and his family. If someone like Jared Loughner could be treated with kid gloves because he is "unbalanced", surely this war hero who most likely never would have snapped if he hadn't put his life on the line for his country FOUR TIMES, should be treated with at least the same consideration.
I think he should be given treatment for PTSD, and forgiven for what he did.
God bless ALL members of our armed forces!
How about our grandparents who spent 4 years deployed? The man got drunk and shot a lot of people. He isn't a victim.
Intentionally killing innocent civilians will get the death penalty every time. After the killings he tried to escape but was caught. He immediately asked for a lawyer.
US soldiers have served many times in long periods of continuous and near continuous combat.
The War for Independence -- troops in the field for years
Civil War -- troops in the field for over four years, fighting those who were neighbors and kin
WWII -- Pacific theater -- repeated combat situations from 1942 to mid-1945 against a fanatical troops.
Viet Nam -- draftees served but one 12-month tour. Many professionals served numerous tours. Combat violence was more intense than present -- over 55,000 dead.
The claim that deployment contributed to financial distress seems in error. When deployed, troops received additional allowances for combat pay and overseas pay, plus their base pay is not subject to federal income tax.
The Eisenhower Doctrine – a nation may request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if threatened by armed aggression from another nation. Eisenhower considered the Soviet threat the main threat to peace. The doctrine authorized the commitment of U.S. forces "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations, requesting such aid against covert armed aggression from any nation controlled by international communism."
Among his contributions to military preparedness as president – interstate road system to facilitate national defense, implementation of the ICBM program, and strengthening NATO to defend western Europe.
Ike won peace you don't declare it.
@Old Faithful.....The Republicans sent us into this war, it is a Democratic President who has finally begun bringing our troops home.
That's a change ms wonka, usually it's the other way around. BTW, do a bit of research, it's easy, and you'll see the democrits were beating those war drums louder than any republican.
Roll Call: Democrats Who Voted For More Afghanistan War
Peregrin Wood3/18/2011[1] comment
Last year-
Cindy Sheehan challenged Democrats with a sharp question: “Are the wars only wrong when there’s a Republican president?”Democrats in Congress delivered a mixed response to that question yesterday, with a vote on House Concurrent Resolution 28, legislation introduced by Dennis Kucinich that would have, if passed into law, required President Obama to end the war in Afghanistan by the end of this year.
The vote yesterday showed a deeply divided Democratic Party in Congress. 85 House Democrats voted to end the war in Afghanistan. 99 House Democrats, however, voted to keep the decade-long war going without any plan for an end to the fighting.
The congressional Democrats who voted for war, against peace, are listed in the roll call below. If you find your U.S. Representative’s name there, and don’t like it, you can make your voice known in two ways:
1. Call your Representative’s office through the congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121
2. Attend one of 43 antiwar protests planned across the USA this weekend.
Congressional Democrats For More War:
It gives me a warm fuzzy knowing the the idiot Repubics wanted BushIIe to take armed conflict advice from the Dems.
When no WMD's (Weapons that Must have Disappeared) were found and the Dems thought that a prolonged occupation of Iraq was a bad idea, then the Repubics found their backbone.
Now princess we've been through this before. I linked the videos of the democrits rattling their sabres and there was nothing you could say then and there is nothing you can say now.
I’m just for getting out.
Save lives.
Save Money.
Skippy
I’m just for getting out.
Save lives.
Save Money.
Skippy
On that, you and I fully agree.
And I hope that we agree that we shouldn't just start bombing Iran like Romney, Santorum and Gingrich have all said they wanted to do.