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Robert Bales

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I am guessing that this article will provide more context and pictures then what the nightly news will show.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Bales.html

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No fucking excuse.
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“He just snapped.” Well snapped things are broken. And broken things are useless. And useless things get thrown out. So toss his ass in the ocean with Osama.
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Actually I really want to know what role the TBI, partial loss of a foot and alcohol played in all of this. I also want to know how he walked out alone at 3AM?
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Fat Cat wrote:“He just snapped.” Well snapped things are broken. And broken things are useless. And useless things get thrown out. So toss his ass in the ocean with Osama.
Nice way to react to one of your own with a traumatic brain injury who is sent to a horrible front you can't imagine and sees his friend blown up in front if him. You can condemn his actions 100% without needing to pretend he's just " plain evil". He's culpable and wil live with his actions for ever more. And he'll be punished and that's how it should be. But your attitude seems callous, wilfully blind to the realities which led to that behaviour and simplistically black and white.
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No. He should die.
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Gorbachev wrote:
Fat Cat wrote:“He just snapped.” Well snapped things are broken. And broken things are useless. And useless things get thrown out. So toss his ass in the ocean with Osama.
Nice way to react to one of your own with a traumatic brain injury who is sent to a horrible front you can't imagine and sees his friend blown up in front if him. You can condemn his actions 100% without needing to pretend he's just " plain evil". He's culpable and wil live with his actions for ever more. And he'll be punished and that's how it should be. But your attitude seems callous, wilfully blind to the realities which led to that behaviour and simplistically black and white.
Nigger who's born into poverty against his will, sees all kinds of shit growing up that no kid should, ends up dealing drugs to survive, shoots a man = Let the fucker burn in the electric chair

Asshole who willfully signs up to kill sandniggers in 3rd world shitholes and ends up going psycho, murdering a bunch of innocent children = Have a heart. You can't understand his struggle.

Bullshit. The guy's a psycho who deserves an even worse fate than befell those kids. No one gives a fuck that he was hit in the head. Insanity is no defense to anything. Just cuz you're batshit crazy doesn't mean there aren't consequences to your actions. ANYONE who murders has mental issues of some sort. Does that mean we should give all of them a slap on the wrist and let them off out of compassion? Is it supposed to be different because this guy was a Marine? If anything, that just proves that he's prone to killing. Normal, honest folks don't go signing up to kill other folks in some shithole half a world away. He knew damn well what he was getting into. Now that it became too much for him to handle and bit him on the ass we should all be compassionate to his plight? Yeah, right.

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Gawddamnit! I agree with Kraj the Ninja-Pirate-Astronaut.


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Fuck him. How many Afgans will pick up an AK and shoot an American soldier because of his actions? How many Afgans heard of this and decided they won't turn in their neighbor for being AQ? This shit for brains fucked his own buddies hard.

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LOL @ Gorby trying to get all thoughtful and shit. Leave the heavy lifting to persons more capable of discernment.
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I discern that your sig is more interesting than your comments.
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(An obviously troubled + damaged fellow)(absolutely bad timing) = tragedy/grand scale


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I think it is going to be interesting to see how this trial plays out in the media and the public in both America and Afghanistan. I also feel like there is more to the story that has yet to come out.


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War fucks people up in the head. Those people might do bad things they might have not otherwise. Those fucked up folks may be beyond rehab. I'm not saying what to do with them, just that it is the reality.

I heard some shit about how three tours overseas nowadays was longer than the entirety of WWII. I can't really comment on that, as I'm ignorant on the entire military situation. That said, Afghanistan has been going on for a decade (decades?) and that was a lot longer than WWII. This dude was on his fourth tour.

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What a duck says wrote:War, Drugs, Alcohol, Poverty, Depression, Rage, Boredom, Hunger, Love... fucks people up in the head. Those people might do bad things they might have not otherwise. Those fucked up folks may be beyond rehab. I'm not saying what to do with them, just that it is the reality.
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While a very tragic event, there is still something that doesnt seem right about the whole thing.
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"How can you shoot women and children??"

"Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much!"
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Bullshit. The guy's a psycho who deserves an even worse fate than befell those kids. No one gives a fuck that he was hit in the head. Insanity is no defense to anything. Just cuz you're batshit crazy doesn't mean there aren't consequences to your actions. ANYONE who murders has mental issues of some sort. Does that mean we should give all of them a slap on the wrist and let them off out of compassion? Is it supposed to be different because this guy was a Marine? If anything, that just proves that he's prone to killing. Normal, honest folks don't go signing up to kill other folks in some shithole half a world away. He knew damn well what he was getting into. Now that it became too much for him to handle and bit him on the ass we should all be compassionate to his plight? Yeah, right.[/quote]

Bales is not a Marine.
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Kraj 2.0 wrote:Normal, honest folks don't go signing up to kill other folks in some shithole half a world away.
STFU jacktard. Normal, honest people who give a fuck about something greater than their own personal well-being and self-interest do just that.

But keep spouting your bullshit. Those of us that do so will continue to keep the wolves at bay.
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What a duck says wrote:I heard some shit about how three tours overseas nowadays was longer than the entirety of WWII. I can't really comment on that, as I'm ignorant on the entire military situation. That said, Afghanistan has been going on for a decade (decades?) and that was a lot longer than WWII. This dude was on his fourth tour.
This is a valid point. I think a sense of futility and mission creep would compound the stresses of rolling, multiple tours, year-in, year-out.

The biggest surprise isn't that this sort of thing happens, but that it doesn't happen more often.....

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The Crawdaddy wrote:
Kraj 2.0 wrote:Normal, honest folks don't go signing up to kill other folks in some shithole half a world away.
STFU jacktard. Normal, honest people who give a fuck about something greater than their own personal well-being and self-interest do just that.

But keep spouting your bullshit. Those of us that do so will continue to keep the wolves at bay.
Roid rage much?

Keep believing that you're actually keeping us safe. Cuz some sand-nigger half a world away who wears slip-ons cuz he's too ass-backwards to even know how to tie a pair of shoelaces is really a threat to normal American folks. Thank you, oh great protector.

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Trust me, I'm not doing shit for you ya piece o'shite Euro-garbage. You can rot for all I care.

And your thoughts and opinions go equally well with the week's garbage.
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Fuck this guy, let them hang him in the streets in Afghanistan where the families of the children he murdered in cold blood can watch. Those that are still alive, that is. I didn't hear all these excuses for Chris Benoit, whose brain was that of an 85 year old Alzheimer's patient from dozens of concussions and was addicted to multiple narcotics. Fuck him too
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protobuilder wrote:"How can you shoot women and children??"

"Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much!"
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The Crawdaddy wrote:Trust me, I'm not doing shit for you ya piece o'shite Euro-garbage.
Oh, I know. You're doing it for these guys:

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