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Sgt.Robert Bales is a prime example of the result of perpetual war. Someone described as a good guy becomes unhinged and women and young children become dead. The problem with collateral damage is that they all have ages and names. It is so funny. We fight a war against terrorism by becoming terrorists. "We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo 
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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

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...gt-robert-bales.html

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!

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.  

 

Roll Call: Democrats Who Voted For More Afghanistan War

Peregrin Wood3/18/2011[1] comment

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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:

Gary Ackerman
Jason Altmire
Robert Andrews
John Barrow
Xavier Becerra
Shelley Berkley
Howard Berman
Sanford Bishop
Timothy Bishop
Earl Blumenauer
Dan Boren
Leonard Boswell
Robert Brady
Bruce Braley
Corrine Brown
G.K. Butterfield
Lois Capps
Dennis Cardoza
Russ Carnahan
John Carney
André Carson
Kathy Castor
Ben Chandler
James Clyburn
Gerald Connolly
Jim Cooper
Jim Costa
Joe Courtney
Mark Critz
Henry Cuellar
Elijah Cummings
Susan Davis
Rosa DeLauro

Ted Deutch
Norman ****s
John Dingell
Lloyd Doggett
Joe Donnelly
Eliot Engel
Chaka Fattah
Charles Gonzalez
Al Green
Gene Green
Colleen Hanabusa
Martin Heinrich
Brian Higgins
James Himes
Mazie Hirono
Tim Holden
Steny Hoyer
Steve Israel
Hank Johnson
Marcy Kaptur
Dale Kildee
Ron Kind
Larry Kissell
James Langevin
Rick L****n
Sander Levin
Daniel Lipinski
David Loebsack
Nita Lowey
Ben Luján
Stephen Lynch
Jim Matheson
Carolyn McCarthy

Betty McCollum
Mike McIntyre
Gregory Meeks
Brad Miller
Christopher Murphy
William Owens
William Pascrell
Nancy Pelosi
Ed Perlmutter
Gary Peters
Collin Peterson
David Price
Nick Rahall
Silvestre Reyes
Mike Ross
Steven Rothman
Lucille Roybal-Allard
C.A. Ruppersberger
Timothy Ryan
John Sarbanes
Adam Schiff
Kurt Schrader
Allyson Schwartz
Robert Scott
David Scott
Terri Sewell
Brad Sherman
Albio Sires
Adam Smith
Betty Sutton
Christopher Van Hollen
Timothy Walz
David Wu

 

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