do you think the war is good or bad?

Answer 1

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Federal prosecutors charged a former U.S. soldier with murder and rape Monday following an investigation into the killing of an Iraqi woman and three members of her family.

Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former private first class who was discharged from the Army "due to a personality disorder," appeared in a federal magistrate's courtroom in Charlotte Monday.

The charges grew out of a military investigation involving up to five soldiers in the March rape and killing of the woman in Mahmoudiya and three of her relatives, one of them a young girl believed to be about 5 years old.

Prosecutors said Green and others entered the home of a family of Iraqi civilians, where he and others raped the woman before Green shot her and her relatives. According to an accompanying affidavit, photos taken by Army investigators showed a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso."

FBI agents arrested Green on Friday in Marion, N.C., where he is being held without bond pending a transfer to Louisville, Ky.

The case is being handled by federal prosecutors there because Green, who served 11 months with the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., is no longer in the military. According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, he was given an honorable discharge "before this incident came to light. Green was discharged due to a personality disorder."

He faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder.

The affidavit, filed by FBI special agent Gregor J. Ahlers of Louisville, said Green and three other soldiers from the 101st's 502nd Infantry Regiment were working a traffic checkpoint in Mahmoudiya on March 12 when they conspired to rape a woman, who investigators estimated was 25 years old, who lived nearby.

According to the affidavit's account, the soldiers changed their clothes before going to the woman's residence to avoid detection. Once there, the affidavit said, Green took three members of the family — an adult male and female, and a girl estimated to be 5 years old — into a bedroom, after which shots were heard from inside.

"Green came to the bedroom door and told everyone, 'I just killed them. All are dead,'" the affidavit said.

The affidavit is based on interviews conducted by the FBI and investigators at Fort Campbell with three unidentified soldiers assigned to Green's platoon. One of the soldiers said he witnessed another soldier and Green rape the woman.

"After the rape, (the soldier) witnessed Green shoot the woman in the head two to three times," the affidavit said.

Ahlers said in the affidavit that he also reviewed photos taken by Army investigators in Iraq of bodies found inside a burned house, including photos of an Iraqi man, woman and young girl who all appear to have died of gunshot wounds. He said he also reviewed a photo of a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso."

An official familiar with details of the investigation in Iraq has told The Associated Press that a flammable liquid was used to burn the rape victim's body in a cover-up attempt. U.S. officials have said they believed the victims were killed in sectarian violence.

On Friday, the U.S. military acknowledged that Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged slaying of a family in Mahmoudiya.

Four members of the 502nd have had their weapons taken away and were confined to a U.S. base near Mahmoudiya, officials said.

The suspects belong to the same unit as two soldiers kidnapped and killed south of Baghdad last month, a military official said on condition of anonymity because the case was under way.

The military has said that one and possibly both of the slain soldiers were tortured and beheaded. The official said the mutilation of the slain soldiers stirred feelings of guilt and led at least one member of the platoon to reveal the rape-slaying on June 22.

According to the affidavit filed Monday, investigators learned of the March 12 attack during a combat stress debriefing that occurred around June 20.

Green will have a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing on July 10 in Charlotte, and will then be brought to Louisville, said Marisa Ford, chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisville.





i dont know you tell me... it's good to know we have such wonderful people fighting this p.o.s. war that means absolutely nothing

Answer 2

War is never good but good things can happen as a result of war. Just a few examples:
a war stopped Hitler from killing Jews and others
a war kicked Saddam out of Kuwait
a war united our nation and helped to end slavery
a war started our nation
That is just a few. I am sure I could come up with more examples if I researched.

Answer 3

Wars in general are bad, with the possible exceptions of the American Revolution, WW II, and the (original) Star Wars Trilogy.

Answer 4

No war is good. Nothing comes out of a war except death and misery.

It is much better to resolve disputes in a diplomatic way, and as this world has become too small of a one, in order to prevent wars in the future, we need a one world government modeled on western style democracy that is equally represented by every single country in the world.

(Fundamentalists, please spare me your Book of Revelation BS and look beyond it, because as this world is getting increasingly smaller, what other solution is there in the end?)

Answer 5

Not good at all. But good things can happen as a result from war; people who have survived, escaped, or those who willed to save the lives of innocent people by willing to die for them. Similarly, this is what happened when Adolf Hilter was trying to rule Europe, but thankfully he was stopped in his tracks.

Answer 6

Morally war is bad
Economically war is good

Answer 7

I hate George Bush's little private war that he tricked so many people into believing in. When Bush is no longer president and everything that he and his people did, then we will find his administartion to be the most corrupt in American history.

Answer 8

When man starts war, I think being animal is better than human being..cause they do not kill their own species. But man does it..it is matter of regret!

Answer 9

bad becasue we were not told the absolute truth about the war.

Answer 10

It is not good or bad, it just is.

War is a tool of the state to achieve goal by the use of violence.

Answer 11

war is horrible, human life is lost, but sometimes unavoidable in order to stop one society from unjustly destroying another, sometimes you gotta fight back, can't just sit there and let the world think they can pick off your citizens and your citizens deserve to be protected from terrorists.