Just A Little Stroll Down Wingnut Memory Lane
By Susie Madrak Friday Apr 17, 2009 11:09amAttaturk brings us this epilogue:
Since the right-wing blogs likely will not revisit and the press certainly will not.
The coda of the Beauchamp Affair:
A senior enlisted Army soldier was convicted on Wednesday of killing four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi men with pistol shots to the backs of their heads shortly after arresting them in Baghdad two years ago, The Associated Press reported.
A military jury in Germany, where his unit is deployed, found the soldier, Master Sgt. John E. Hatley, guilty of premeditated murder in the deaths of the men, whom he and several other members of his unit had detained after a firefight with insurgents in Baghdad in spring 2007, according to testimony in the case.
If you cannot place the name, Master Sgt. Hatley was the direct superior of Pvt. Scott Beauchamp and the person most used to discredit (along with the gay porn star) the New Republic diary of the life of a soldier in Iraq and the ways they dealt with the pressures of Operation Clusterf*ck. All of which Hatley said was absolutely not what his ever virtuous soldiers did.
In February, another military jury convicted the unit’s medic, Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr., 28, of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison. On March 30, Sgt. First Class Joseph P. Mayo, 27, pleaded guilty to murder and received a 35-year sentence.
Military legal experts said the soldiers’ rank showed the frustration of fighting insurgents who blended in with the locals.
Which was exactly the subject Scott Beauchamp was writing about.
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War, war, war....Welcome to the United States of America....
When was the last time the USA devoted itself to peace and justice? America has always been into eating its own and others....this is nothing new to that American "dream." America is addicted to war and conflict and turmoil....and torture, rape, and pillage....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jdzq6J3joI&fe...
http://www.nndb.com/people/355/000078121/cand...
It will sure be great when all these Iraqi vets are finally allowed to go home. No doubt they'll all be perfectly fine and re-integrate seamlessly into life in the fatherland.
So theres a PTSD problem waiting to erupt near everybody.
Of course not everybody suffers from the worst of PTSD, rear echelon clerks who had a good war will not. But of the say 20% who had a bad war, most will self medicate with booze or drugs to dull the pain, the 1% will be the problem, and make the news in one form or another.
Be it from drink driving convictions, domestic abuse, petty offenses, or full bore whacko events that make the national news briefly.
The domestic forty year plus fallout from the Bushco 'wars' will be his permanent legacy. People and relatives will be cursing GWB in 2050.
There's lots of ticking time bombs walking around trying to deal with what they saw or did in Iraq. It's good to see people are being held accountable for their actions. How ironic that Master Sgt Hatley is one of them.
I wouldn't be surprised if the border guards who beat up that Baptist minister are ex-military.
His car would be plastered with religious stickers.
Plus the fact he was most likely already on the federal 'nofly' lists, due to his busy activism, partly religious, partly political.
The BP must have known exactly who he was when they went all medieval on him.
Something like that could happen to any of us.
Profuse apologies from Malkin, Hannity and O'Reilly in four...three...never.
Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich. Bozicevich, 39, of Minneapolis is charged with killing a fellow team leader in his unit, Sgt. Wesley Durbin, and their squad leader, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson on Sept. 14 at a small U.S. patrol base south of Baghdad.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
that a lot of them were totally screwed long before they ever donned a uniform.
Certainly now more than ever before we have to watch these Right
Wing-nutO groups closely for acts of terrorism from these bigoted motivated lunatics against our Prez. in the US.
the very ones warned about in the DHS report the wingnuts are all up in arms about. Or the nuts that showed up at the Alamo, glorified and pimped by fox news and glenn beck.
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/2009041500...
1SG Hatley and his squad were attacked by a group of enemy terrorist combatants. They fired back, chased them down, captured them, and found their weapons cache. They should have killed them on the spot, instead of taking them to the base camp. As for the Courts Martial decision, justice isn’t always “just”.
The frothing moonbats will see this as 'vindication' for Beauchamp's wild-assed tales, (picking on disfigured women, wearing a child’s skull on his head or running over dogs with a Bradley) even though he fully admitted he lied. His behavior was a disgrace and in no way reflected on the bravery, dedication, and honor of his unit. Beauchamp was and is a punk.
The leftwingnuts are dancing a jig over a rare (albeit trumped up) conviction, when 99.9% of the accusations leveled against American troops fall flat either before they get to trial, or as a result of acquitals. Case in point: John "the troops are cold-blooded murderers" Murtha made that accusation against the marines who fought at Haditha. They were exonerated.
Furthermore, you can expect a flurry of 'justifications' for Janet Napolitano's moronic "threat assessment" on returning war veterans.
The worst thing about this is that American troops who fight so valiantly in the region of the world that breeds the terrorists who attacked this country, will now have to worry about doing what it takes to accomplish the mission and being prosecuted for doing so.
The consequences of releasing Islamic terrorist combatants from GITMO and other points of custody, is that they pick up where they left off. The Left has more of a problem with us fighting Islamofascists hellbent on a world Caliphate, than they do with what it takes to stop them.
Whether you like it or not, 1SG Hatley's actions saved the lives of Soldiers by stopping those terrorists dead in their tracks.
But then, having never been in Iraq or Afghanistan, (as I have) you wouldn't know.
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