He even looks like the ultimate prize genocidal maniac that typifies the SEALS / GREEN BERETS / SPECIAL FORCES, a perfect white man according to the USA’s culture and society which is the most violent society on earth.
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Speaking of dumb government employees. The bald border folks are frequent Fox commenters, duh!
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They should do a setup piece about My Lai for context. Maybe an interview with brave patriot William Calley.
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shades of william calley
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just posted something similar. This scumbag belongs in prison for life. How can we chg others with human rights violations, Won’t the enemy feel free to do the same to our soldiers
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His wife is already begging t* for a pardon
Next stop: head of Homeland Security.
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They’re also not supposed to pose with corpses, so what he is trained for doesn’t fucking matter.
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What’s with all these Navy SEAL officers doing bad/questionable stuff? Grietens, Zinke and Gallagher?
They notice how much more money contractors make while on duty.
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It sounds like he went over the edge. I wonder how long he was really “out there” before his comrades turned on him?
Allowing any soldier to deploy to a war zone more than twice seems crazy.
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8th deployment? How long is a deployment for a Seal. 6 months? He surely wanted to go or could think of nothing else to do at that point.
War makes everyone murderers. Everyone.
If I were to hazard a guess I would say he never planned to outlive this war. That happens sometimes. I can’t imagine justice being done by having him live the rest of his life locked up. I can’t imagine him healing in any case. I can’t imagine what justice would be except the crudest. Of the million that have died in the region by our direct action these were just a few more. There are surely thousands of American service members who were equally callous. So it goes.
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Just like the code of honor of medieval knights, it was all BS, they were then and are now just thugs that look after themselves.
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When I was enlisting in the navy, I met a couple guys that wanted to be SEALs, they were of the schoolyard bully type.
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Worse, your local police department.
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Maybe after showing up on Fox & Friends he could show up on Hannity and waterboard the 2nd biggest coward in America today Hannity!
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I think you all are missing my point. And I am ex-Army. The Armed Forces are about lethality–that’s what they do, whether you like it or not. SEALS, in particular, are trained to be lethal. After 8 deployments that worldview totally fucks with who and what you are. I am not condoning what he did. It’s atrocious. But war sucks and it’s hell and people do godawful shitty things. He will face court martial and possibly more. I am just pushing back on the “golly gee whiz, how could this happen” crap.
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Navy prosecutors have painted a picture of a highly trained fighter and medic going off the rails on his eighth deployment, indiscriminately shooting at Iraqi civilians and stabbing to death a captured Islamic State fighter estimated to be 15 years old, then posing with the corpse, including at his re-enlistment ceremony.
Even elite troops aren’t supposed to murder prisoners, and medics are supposed to care for the wounded, including enemy prisoners. Plus the prisoner patient had just been stabilized by another medic, meaning he was totally defenseless and under ongoing medical care. Gallagher only had access to him because he was also a medic. Don’t know the extent of the Navy Medic’s Hippocratic Oath, but this is a huge violation of whatever ethical code that must apply, not to mention the Geneva Conventions.
But, leave it to him to appear at his arraignment bedecked with all his fucking medals. By the way, does the Defense in Military Criminal Proceedings put on their character witnesses before the Government’s case in chief, or is there some procedural thing going on the article omits?
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Sounds like a psychotic break.
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I’m surprised he hasn’t become a cop already. It’s the usual progression for ex-military psychopaths.
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Psychopaths gonna be psychopaths. And they will find the venue where their pathologies will be praised and rewarded.
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