These soldiers are young and can tend to misbehave. The age they send them there is the time when most are partying the most, and they lose they're opportunity to party here in this homeland, and go to some other country and do something like this. As the years go by its getting clear to me, that terrorists are caused through acts of these disgusting soldiers. He raped the daughter, and killed the family, four accounts of murder, and rape! I get information from other news networks about this stuff happening allover iraq that most US news networks will not show. Rape/slaying is the sickest, sickest of all crimes. And the soldier gets possibility of parole after ten years, I bet if he were a man of color this government would have him in at life w/o possiblity of parole! I am outraged! These acts will produce more and more terrorists/guerrillas, and i am getting more and more upset! IS THIS JUSTICE? Anyone feel how I feel, or are u too patriotic to be a human being!?
2007-08-04 16:37:26 · 9 answers · asked by qwertyman 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I guess Pfc. Jesse Spielman, was pretty patriotic right? He was thinking about his people when he raped that young girl, shot her, and then went on to kill her family. Yes this is what is justified for enduring stress, do you really know how much stress he had been through? Did you ask him? He probably acted "stressed" in court right? If he were black you all would have ate him up. And this isn't the only point I'm trying to make! Where is justice!
2007-08-04 17:00:00 · update #1
I am trying to say that this will, this will create more and more "terrorists"! This isn't WWII, this is guerilla warfare! And as far as i know America has never won a guerrilla war. We are putting ourselves in danger over some war that wasn't justified!
2007-08-04 17:02:48 · update #2
absolutely!! it makes me ill, literally, and i'll never be 'patriotic' enough to overlook these kinds of outrageous acts! this 'war' that started out as an all out 'invasion' has been wrong and mis-directed from the beginning and just gets worse with every passing day. i experience so many emotions on a daily basis, over this atrocity in the guise of 'bringing democracy to iraq', it's wearing me out, to be honest. i know many people are experiencing this now, everyone i talk to!! if the kinds of things happening over there were happening in the u.s. we would be hating the invaders every bit as much as the iraqis are hating us now. everything about it is wrong, period end!!!
2007-08-04 17:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Spielman was not right. You have to stop and think about the odds. There are, three million men and women over there and, there's been several incidents, what that ratio compared to a large American city with a large police force.
Detroit for example, they're always in the news with officer shootings and drug deals between the cops, Los angelas isn't to far behind and Florida with 45 cops on the take and running a prostitution ring.
I would say I would expect many more incidents to happen over there, with the unusually high amount of men and women but, your all ticked off because we're there and, you want to punish someone.
These few incidents are rare really, with all the people there, think about it. Our large city cops show an average of many more problems then what's happening over there for sure.
2007-08-05 03:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look, this happened a lot more often we just didn't hear about it all......
When the war started, remember the pics of soldiers holding babies?
The kids were the only survivors of a gunfight. Yes it is proof that many innocent moms died that there was no family to care for the babies...
Think about it...................
Is it any wonder it is creating more hostility in the Middle East and yet still some soldiers are thinking their job there is to kill as many muslims as possible....
No, not many but enough to cause problems...
2007-08-05 00:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As someone who has studied history extensively, and in particular the history of WWII and the Civil War in the US, I can tell you that while this is a terrible crime, it is far from uncommon in war. There's no excuse for it. But we would be wise to compare it to say, the rape of 20 THOUSAND Chinese women in Nanking by the Japanese military in WWII. This was not a few rogue soldiers using war as an excuse to harm and murder: it was an act of a large body of military men against an enormous number of citizens in a foreign country. There are endless other examples of this kind of thing from WWII in particular.
The US on the whole has NOT been perpetrating organized rape or murder without cause on the Iraqui people, as far as the rules of war are concerned. They do not belong in the category of the Japanese in Nanking and do not therefore deserve our wholesale condemnation.
2007-08-04 23:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not justifying his actions, but you try going to Iraq for 15 months seeing things humans shouldnt see... He may have not been in a proper mindstate.. Soldiers endure a lot of stress and some just dont know how to deal with it and over react like your said story.. Yes he was wrong and should be on trial for it... You have some nerve to attack people's patriotism if their opinion differs from yours.
2007-08-04 23:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by Zyalater 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
if a muslim guy did the same thing to a Christian/American family, then president Bush would have shot him then and there and then he would have bombed and invaded that guy's home country...if the terrorists get pissed off by this, i wouldn't be surprised...why is the US sending these mentally sick people to Iraq...they're giving the military a bad name and they are making the lives of innocent people a living hell...i am as sickened by this story as you are my friend...and anyone with any sort of dignity in them will be too...no matter what race, religion, or color they may be.
2007-08-05 06:27:55 · answer #6 · answered by adrianne k 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't rape anyone! He didn't kill anyone. Read the whole damned news report. He was the lookout man. And he didn't cop out and try to blame others for what he did. He admitted it was his own fault and his own responsibility.
2007-08-05 01:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
There have been WAY more rapes and murders committed by civilians in just about every nation on earth during the past "month" than have been committed by the U.S. military given the time period of your choice.
Those in military service receive a much less hospitable imprisonment than those criminals convicted in civilian court.
-It's the truth.
2007-08-04 23:55:55 · answer #8 · answered by mark623112 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
He probably believed the lies his government told him about Iraq and 9/11. Once you dehumanise a people you don't feel so bad about committing atrocities.
This is what the Nazis did to the jews.
2007-08-05 01:29:19 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋