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Soldier Accused in Afghan Shooting Rampage Charged With 17 Counts of Premeditated Murder

Robert Bales

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, in 2011. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said.

The 38-year-old soldier is accused of walking off a U.S. military base with his 9mm pistol and M-4 rifle, which was outfitted with a grenade launcher, before dawn on March 11, killing nine Afghan children and eight adults and burning some of the bodies. It was the worst allegation of civilian killings by an American and has severely strained U.S.-Afghan ties at a critical time in the decade-old war.

It’s unclear what prompted the killings, but the case has drawn new attention to the debate over mental health care for the troops, who have experienced record suicide rates and high incidences of post-traumatic stress and brain injuries during repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Six other Afghans – a man, a woman and four children – were wounded in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban. Bales also was charged with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of assault in those cases, according to Col. Gary Kolb, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who disclosed information from the charging document.

Bales, a father of two from Lake Tapps, Washington, was officially informed of the 29 charges just before noon local time at the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is confined.

His civilian attorney, John Henry Browne, said Friday that he believes the government will have a hard time proving its case and that his client’s mental state will be an important issue. Bales was on his fourth tour of duty, having served three tours in Iraq, where he suffered head and foot injuries.

The decision to charge him with premeditated murder suggests that prosecutors plan to argue that he consciously conceived the killings. A military legal official for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the case, noted that premeditated murder is not something that has to have been contemplated for a long time.

The maximum punishment for a premeditated murder conviction is death, dishonorable discharge from the armed forces, reduction to the lowest enlisted grade and total forfeiture of pay and allowances, Kolb said. The mandatory minimum sentence is life imprisonment with the chance of parole.

Legal experts have said the death penalty would be unlikely in the case. The military hasn’t executed a service member since 1961 when an Army ammunition handler was hanged for raping an 11-year-old girl in Austria. None of the six men currently on death row at Fort Leavenworth was convicted for atrocities against foreign civilians.

The charging document did not provide details about the killings, leaving the timeline unclear. The dead bodies were found in Balandi and Alkozai villages – one north and one south of the base.

Members of the Afghan delegation investigating the killings said one Afghan guard working from midnight to 2 a.m. saw a U.S. soldier return to the base around 1:30 a.m. Another Afghan soldier who replaced the first and worked until 4 a.m. said he saw a U.S. soldier leaving the base at 2:30 a.m. It’s unknown whether the Afghan guards saw the same U.S. soldier. If the gunman acted alone, information from the Afghan guards would suggest that he returned to base in between the shooting sprees.

It also is not known whether the suspect used grenades, Kolb said. The grenade launcher attachment is added to the standard issue M-4 rifle for some soldiers but not all, he said. Bales was assigned to provide force protection at the base.

The pre-dawn shooting spree has further frayed ties between U.S. troops and President Hamid Karzai as the two nations are negotiating agreements for America’s military footprint in Afghanistan after most international combat forces withdraw by the end of 2014. After the shootings, Karzai reiterated his demand that foreign troops leave posts near Afghan villages and pull back to larger bases.

The killings also have fueled anti-American sentiment in a country where violent protests raged for nearly a week last month after Muslim holy books and other Islamic texts ended up in a garbage burn pit at a U.S. base.

“By the laws of Islam, the soldier should be hanged,” Dost Mohammad, a shopkeeper in Kandahar, the provincial capital, said Friday. “While other countries’ laws say that this individual should be given a life sentence, from our point of view and that of other Muslims, this guy should be hanged.”

Afghan officials and villagers maintain that 16 civilians were killed. The U.S. military never announced a death toll, but said Friday that investigators had collected enough evidence to charge Bales with killing 17 civilians.

U.S. officials are working with Afghan officials to compensate relatives of the victims, money that likely would be disbursed to the eldest male of the family. Eleven of those who died were from one family.

Bales’ lawyer, who is based in the state of Washington, has said that his client remembers very little or nothing from the time the military believes he went on the rampage.

Browne told CBS’ “This Morning” on Friday that his client’s memory problems predate the shooting spree. Browne said Bales had earlier suffered a “serious” concussion that was not treated “for a variety of reasons,” which Browne did not explain.

Browne said he thinks the U.S. government will have difficulty proving its case against Bales because “there is no crime scene” and a lack of important physical evidence like fingerprints.

Two military defense attorneys also have been assigned to his case.

Browne has said that he wants to visit Afghanistan.

U.S. military officials said they would do what they can to protect Bales’ legal team in the event of such a visit but warned the shootings have heightened tension between U.S. troops and villagers in the area, and decisions about where the legal team could safely travel would have to be on a case-by-case basis at the time of any visit.

The charges launch what is likely to be a lengthy legal process.

Bales was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, of the 2nd Infantry Division, which is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. The U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has sent the charges to a special court-martial convening authority, the 17th Fires Brigade, an artillery unit based in Fort Lewis, Washington.

Lewis-McChord spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield said Friday that officials at that base will have the legal responsibility of trying and managing the case against Bales, but it was not clear where the proceedings will actually take place, noting that Fort Leavenworth has the most updated security.

The commanding officer of that brigade has several options ranging from taking no action to ordering an Article 32 investigation, which is comparable to a preliminary hearing or grand jury process in U.S. civilian courts.

During the investigation, the defense will have an opportunity to see evidence and cross-examine government witnesses. An investigating officer will issue a report at the end of the probe in which he can recommend a court-martial; and add, delete or modify the charges. A mental assessment for Bales also is expected to be ordered.

He could be charged with other offenses later, according to the legal official. On Friday, a senior U.S. defense official said Bales was drinking in the hours before the attack on Afghan villagers, violating a U.S. military order banning alcohol in war zones.

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  • georgepatton
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 8:19pm

    What is the verdict on the Fort Hood massacre?
    Oh that’s right, it was classified as a work place incident!!
    Haven’t heard from obammy or Holder on that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Linny
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:30pm

      I’d like to copy what you said. So should everyone else! This is all we need to say to Obama and the DOJ, over, and over, and over again.

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    • LibertysHammer
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:45am

      This is outrageous The terrorist attacks have not been dealt with due to political seasons and they will throw this soldier under the bus because he is not muslim and he can not be used politically. Hmmm – where is the not rushing to judgment mr. obama, and equal protection and justice you are affording nadal hassan?

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:23am

      SSGT Bales didn’t do it! Some filthy, murderin’ muslim taliban did it!

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:31am

      Just got here–T’anks. I also echo your sentiments. Sgt.Bales is charged with shooting 17 Afghani and attempting to kill several others. in a oseas workplace incident. Major Malik Hasan murdered 14 (life in the womb does count) and attempted to murder more than 30 others. at Ft.Hood. When our first ANTI-American President starts defending America-and Americans against his bloody freaking Muslim Brothers Then-and not until then– will I consider him an American President.Bush was the Last American President.

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    • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:14pm

      EXACTLY…
      not to mention what was this man, who had been dx w PTSD and brain injury doing as a sargeant on his FOURTH tour? I’d say the military who MADE that decision and 0 who never encourages people to join the military, but instead turns on them, who should be held accountable. He keeps engaging and spreading our military thin while reducing pay, benefits, etc, not only putting them in danger themselves, but all around them. MOST people can only take so much. Had he come home and killed 17 of his family it wouldn’t have made news, much less put him up for a possible death penalty.
      What a SAD nation we have become. The “Throw the bums out” moniker has never been more applicable than now for this nation to survive.

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  • 321481
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 8:01pm

    This guy had 3 tours, a serious head injury and foot injury. I heard a new report that he was told he would not be sent on another tour, then they sent him to Afg. where your allies you are training shoot you in the head. This guy should have never been sent on another tour like they told him. He was emotionally unfit for another tour and obviously someone in the military thought this because they told him he would not go on another tour. Now, it is a terrible thing that happened, but they need to look up the person that changed the order from not another tour to send him to Afgh. That is where this whole thing went off the tracks in the first place. I think the Obama and his buds would have like it better if he would have killed himself instead. We need to get out of afganistan all together, they are not worth the money, American blood and ruined lives. You can not make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

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    • chips1
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 1:27pm

      Obama killed those Afghans. The millitary is only an expendable tool to him.He refuses to help the injured soldiers. Next thing you will see is a muslim wearing a bowtie standing at his helicopter as he gets onboard.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 7:45pm

    As a military wife, mother, aunt & sister, I’m having a really hard time with this. My heart breaks for this soldier’s wife. My heart breaks for our military & their families. I’m having a hard time with sympathy for the victims & their families. God help me (& everyone else). I don’t understand my own feelings. Perhaps it is a complete lack of trust & faith in the honesty of our enemy. I’m also bothered by the fact that Staff Sgt. Bales doesn’t remember killing any women or children. He admitted to the murders. By his own admission, he is guilty. Justice, in whatever form is deemed proper, must be served. So be it.

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    • waspanglosaxon
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:41am

      Not remembering anything the next morning (or claiming not to remember) is hardly a justification for killing civilians and even children. Any drunk driver who‘s ever killed someone probably wouldn’t remember much the next day either. But that amnesia, real or faked, won’t bring back any of the slain innocents, will it?

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  • TrueColours
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 7:37pm

    I recently read that the Army had him [previously wounded in the head] jacked-up on psychotropic drugs prior to pushing him out the door for his fourth tour of combat duty. WTF! Remember that psychotropic drugs were involved in the Columbine High School massacre? Remind me why we’re still in Afghanistan? I’ll tell you. They want to use it like a aircraft carrier; to launch strikes in the up coming war with Iran/Pakistan and others. Sounds like a trigger for WW III to me. Oh by the way, did you hear the the folks at Homeland Security have low morale? (sad face). If I were required to betray the Constitution, my oath, my friends, my family, my ancesters and the trust of the American People on a daily basis, I would probably have such low morale and lack of moral self-esteem that I’d quit. I would then work for the cause of restoring the Constutional principles our country was founded on and speak out boldly agaist this tyranny that our NWO/Globalist/Facist Puppet Masters are perpatraiting not only against U.S. but all of humanity as well. Fake wars, spying on Americans, induced economic collapse, fake science, bank and financial fraud, false flags, stealthy ursurrping of our sovernty, corruption, secret shadow governments, the murder of inocent people in the production of false flags, setting regulations and war upon people with the purpose of “thining the herd”/Grand Population Redux/Genocide/Infanticide etc etc etc. The Great Awakening is Upon Us folks.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 7:17pm

    afgans n MUSLUMS MURDER ANYONE Os tell me HOW this soildger who snapped IS worthy of death when MUSLUMS murdering MUSLUMS kill for NO reason HES guilty n the out cry is so grteat.. WHAT A SLAP N ******** THIS IOS he may have snapped. does NOT excuse what was done how ever MUSLUMS kill daily n HES guilty… IMPEACH OBAMA NOW

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  • BeingThere
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:53pm

    Only kill the people the government wants you to, then it’s not murder! LOL

    Afghanistan and every living thing in it is not worth one American life!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:28pm

    He needs to be tried in Afghanistan. The relatives of all the innocent people this monster killed must have justice.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:37pm

      Or he needs to be released and the rest of the troops come home as well. The man shouldnt have been there along with the rest of our troops fighting in a unconstitutional war situation. Why are we still there. Had Bush declared war, our troops would be home. Had Obama kept his promise, our troops would be home and this kind of crap wouldnt have happened.

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    • BeingThere
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:49pm

      @baikonur Actually we need to send all the people who think like you to Afghanistan!!

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 8:05pm

      There could have been a good chance that he could of went on a rampage like this in the US.

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    • Linny
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:36pm

      The Ft. Hood, radical islamist needs swift justice!

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    • C and C grandma
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:44pm

      So did I hear you saying the same thing about MAJOR Nidal Malik Hasan when he shot and killed 13 and wounded another 17 and if he wouldn’t have been stopped would have wounded and killed many more???? Just curious… That was also premediated.. he bought the gun 4 months before he went on the shooting rampage and bought over 400 round of ammo… SO if your saying justice for one…I say the same justice for all!!!!
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    • waspanglosaxon
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 1:30am

      Absolutely! This kill-crazy psycho should be iced for the good of all mankind.

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:10am

      Major Nadal Hasan should be swinging from a rope for HIS premeditated murder of 13 troops and 32 counts (who were wounded) of attempted murder.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:21pm

    The only witnesses were Afhagan guards? This guy was set up….understandable he doesn’t remember anything except before and after. I don’t believe he ever went to the villages on an injured foot that night….alone.

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  • LameLiberals
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:16pm

    Good shot

    If I were on the jury – I would acquit and shake his hand.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:30pm

      For murdering innocent people, most of them women and children, at night in their home while they slept?

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    • Linny
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:37pm

      I agree with you! He was set up!

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    • Latter-Day-Soldier
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:27am

      I hope I never have the misfortune of being deployed to Afghanistan…incidents of Afghan “allies” shooting at my brothers in arms is not anything new unfortunately.
      Back in 07 I was told of an incident (by an eyewitness) where a Afghan policeman whipped out his side-arm and started shooting a U.S. soldier in the back…thankfully his body armor stopped an entire family of 9×19 pistol rounds from leaving as much as a bruise. Oh, the afghan cop was in turn shot and killed himself.

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  • denofcubs
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:52pm

    First off, I would not trust what any Afghan soldier stated. They are highly unreliable with their information and really do not want us there. Secondly, Sgt. Bales never should have been told to go for a 4th tour of duty over there. He had suffered a traumatic head injury and also had lost a portion of his foot. Where were his commanding officers intelligence in sending him over AGAIN. Our men and women are asked too much for the sake of a country that does not want us there and after we finally leave, it will all go back to as it was.
    Sgt. Bales is in desperate need of mental care and mental rest and many years of love and TLC.
    Oh and why as not the psychiatrist from Ft. Hood even gone to trial yet? It has been over two years and he killed over 15 people and wounded over 25. Just wondering

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  • momsense
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:41pm

    Hassan kills more then 17and it’s a workplace incident–this guy suffers from probable PTSD and it’s premeditated murder—guess who will get the death panalty–not Hassan !

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    • dutchy
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 5:49pm

      So True!

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:11am

      Killed 13, wounded 29, but he was a major, this guy is just a sergeant. The army has never had to try someone so high-ranking for something like this before, it’s going to take a little longer.

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  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:40pm

    This slimeball should be turned over to the Afghans. Barring that, he should receive the death penalty. But he’ll probably cop an insanity plea. At the very, very minimum, this piece of excrement should be given life imprisonment with no possible chance of parole. Anyone who champions this child-murderer is no better than he is, morally.

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    • TheObamanation
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:47pm

      He has a brain injury … and … that explains such irrational behavior

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:20pm

    He‘s been through a lot and should be cared for in a mental hospital for the nightmare he’s been through … We‘ve let him down and it’s time for him to get the healing he deserves.

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Agree with you wholeheartedly. How much can a human being absorb?

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:36pm

      Is what the defense attorney should argue, but the way it works under the American justice system is that when you massacre 17 innocent people, the prosecution gets to try to make you look bad.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:36pm

      He is a mass murderer who will be never see the light of day again. Even if he is crazy and treated in an institution for the criminally insane before being sent to jail, he will commit suicide once he improves enough to understand what he did. It is not uncommon at all.

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    • waspanglosaxon
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:18am

      Yeah, well, Chas. Manson, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, Pol Pot, they’ve all had rough times too. I guess they all deserve our compassion and TLC, etc. as well.
      I can only hope that if Robt. Bales ever walks free again (God forbid!), he lands a job as the security guard at the school your kids attend.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:47am

      waspanglosaxon
      Hey, be fair now. Ed Gein only killed two people that we know of for sure. Charles Manson didn’t personally finish off anybody, and his whole gang didn’t rack up as big a body count as Sgt. Bales.

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  • ZAP
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:14pm

    Fort HOOD –FIRST

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:02pm

      Fort Hood can wait because New Jersey is not going to revert to a radical Islamist state and kill the rest of the soldiers there in retaliation if we don’t show them that we can act swiftly and justly, but Afghanistan might.

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:49pm

    God bless SSgt Bales. no doubt that rabid communist animal obama will lock that poor broken 100% AMERICAN soldier up, just like he unjustly imprisoned “the LEAVENWORTH 10” for doing THEIR jobs as AMERICAN soldiers.

    We can’t wait til obama is rotting in Leavenworth.. if we can catch him before he flees to one of his communist/muslim safehouses overseas that our American tax dollar $Trillions bought for him. it’d be great to watch obama go thru a High Treason trial and walk that last perp walk to do the Saddam Dangle, we’d bring popcorn and lawnchairs to watch that on a jumbotron at Leavenworth.

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:59pm

      I’m amazed that anyone can think Bales killing 17 civilians (including 9 children) or Hatley killing 4 Iraqi detainees can be considered “their job” without being certifiably insane.

      Bales should never walk as a free man again, but odds are he needs mental care, not prison, for the rest of his days. I only wish he could have gotten it before he went on a rampage and murdered children.

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:03pm

      Obama is a communist and he is not an American. Send him to Leavenworth…not to Guantamano..
      He would get along to well at Guantamano. He could frolic with his Muslims brothers, play soccer, and pray to mecca all day.

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    • TOMSERVO
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:16pm

      Let me just try to paraphrase your comment here, to see if I’m getting it right:

      “God Bless the soldier who killed 17 helpless civilians. The evil muslim president will lock him up because he hates freedom/christianity.

      I can’t wait to watch Obama hang to death while I eat popcorn.”

      Is that about right?

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:23pm

      TOMSERVO…it’s okay, they’re all Christians. Jesus has given special approval of their hatred.

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:46pm

    After reading the headlines today about the US soldier who shot up Afghanistan civilians, I couldn’t help noticing an irony.  There is all this clamor to try this guy quickly and execute him, never mind his having suffered a traumatic brain injury.  Yet this Major Hasan, who shot up Fort Hood while screaming Allah akbar, still hasn’t stood trial, and they are still debating whether he was insane, even with the clear evidence regarding his motive: slay as many infidels as possible.  So we have a guy in a war zone who cracks, and he must be executed immediately.  But this Muslim psychiatrist who was stateside in a nice safe office all day murders 13, wounds 29 of our own guys, and they try to argue the poor lad suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome, from listening to real soldiers who had actual battle experience. 
     
    Two and a half years later, they still haven’t tried the murderous Muslim.
     

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:53pm

      as long as obama rules as the muslim-lover dictator, the Ft Hood terrorist hassan will be coddled and protected by obama. as soon as that rabid animal obama is out, that muslim terrorist will face AMERICA.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:00pm

      I agree with EVERYTHING you said … and pray for this man and his family …

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  • momrules
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:43pm

    I don’t trust the Muslim villagers to tell the truth. I don’ trust the Muslim soldiers to tell the truth. I don’t trust this CinC to tell the truth. Hell, I don’t trust some of the top military brass to tell the truth.

    I hope John H. Browne is a bulldog at getting the truth and won’t allow what is expedient to be the answer. If Sgt. Bales is found guilty he should pay with proper punishment. I will not condemn him yet.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:37pm

    Good shooting Sgt. Bales….too bad you did it so blatantly. You should have had 17 throw-down guns.

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:01pm

      You endorse the killing of women and children?

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    • TOMSERVO
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:17pm

      Certainly seems that way…

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:19pm

      Good grief, CARNAC…you are one sick human being. Is trash like you representative of so-called patriotic conservatives?

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  • Mandors
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:36pm

    These brave men and women have been fighting far too long. WWII was less than four years. This conflict similar to Vietnam has been going on for a decade. That’s the only thing in common with Vietnam, and in some ways Afghanistan and Iraq have been worse, because it is the same people fighting for TEN years. Very few people did enough tours in Nam to equal what Bales has done. Our soldiers need a break. There’s a big difference between fighting a war, nation building, and bringing a culture out of the Stone Age. The latter is too much to ask anyone to do.

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  • One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:32pm

    Here’s my message to the men and women of the US military:

    Thank you for your immeasurable sacrifices, your losses we can’t even comprehend even though many of us come from from families steeped in military honor over 240 years of this nation. We appreciate your service and honor. NOW……

    go down to the CO and tell him GOOD FREAKING BYE to this freak parade. I’m freaking done. I’m not defending this momo filled decadent hellbent nation anymore. Period. Let everyone fend for themselves, since half the people in this country need to be reminded that freedom isn’t free and the bill has come due. Let em try it.

    Then start drafting all these imaginary Rambo Gays and lefties who love wars but don‘t like them when it’s not furthering THEIR cause, and let them bleed for about a month is all it would take for them to be slaughtered on the battlefield by the bloodthirsty mo hating Muzz while trying to hump a muzz like Obama’s ****** huggging Momma did such a great job of chasing that all over the world her adult life. Sick woman. Today he would have been aborted in first trimester..

    That’s how I feel today. I wouldn’t fight for HALF this nation, and they‘re gonna meet us down the road anyhow the road they’re traveling, so I’ll deal with them personally at that point as will my Neighborhood militia, and be glad to do it I might add..

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:37pm

      No one made you or him join the military. So you can quit the sob story.

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    • jblaze
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:47pm

      Best_Patriot NOT

      You are a real sad little boy! Didn’t mommy tuck you in at night? Time to practice what you preach and sit on your hands.

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    • CulperGang
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Fight for the nation the US Constitution NOT the POLITICIANS. There is a huge difference.

      You have CRIMINALS AS LEADERS IN WASHINGTON…..quit serving them!!!! These wars ARE illegal and do NOTHING for the nation.

      They are wars of genocide for the New Borg World Order …with the orders coming from bankers that run the UN. Remember Panetta! he gets his orders from UN and NATO…..THAT IS NOT WE THE PEOPLE OR THE NATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

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    • Pigpen
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 7:51pm

      ONE MAN is absolutely RIGHT! I and many more feel exactly, Exactly, EXACTLY the same way. They are just too worried about making the NSA’s blacklist if they TYPE IT here on theBlaze. And as for any of you feeling compelled to buy into the naysayers and their “levelheadedness”, just DON’T. They are here with neither SHAME nor FEAR to do nothing more than to cause fear and doubt in the minds of you faltering conservatives and fencesitters. BUT don’t you do it! WE are the ones who love you! Myself and ONE MAN PROGRESSIVE WRECKING CREW !!!

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  • justangry
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:30pm

    He should be charged with 17 counts. He should also be given a PTSD screening, and the care one should get after 4 tours and two purple hearts. Neocons better wake the hell up too on the toll that these multiple deployments to a craphole with no freaking mission objective are doing to our countries finest. They KNOW, they’re not defending the Constitution.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:25pm

    Huh? “Premeditated Murder”? In order to prove premeditated murder, would it not have to be proven that Bales planned each one of these killings – would it not have to be proven that he had targeted each of these individuals specifically, rather than randomly? Murder yes. Premeditated murder – doubtful.

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    • blanco5
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:33pm

      best patriot? And YOU are?

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:33pm

      “Premedite means to decide to kill before taking action. A murder is premeditated if the killer decides to kill before actually killing.”

      Just from a random law website. Basically it means that you‘ve armed yourself before hand and have a pretty good idea of what you’re doing (ie, going house to house and killing every person there). Ie, not spur-of-the-moment; you know you’re going to kill.

      Seems it fits, as he shot these people no matter how they responded.

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    • One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:34pm

      Hey Troll who signed up today: Member Since: March 23, 2012:

      Shove it up your barneyhole you freaking troll. You’re dead to US now, so shut up and get back to doing momma’s dishes before mommy 2 comes home and wants a ****** wax you polevaulter.

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    • jblaze
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Best_Patriot

      Don’t be a D**K! Who made you judge and jury.

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:39pm

      I think you all missed the point that I was not providing “analysis,” the original poster was.

      @One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew: you’re a mess. get help. you’re unhinged.

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    • jblaze
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:08pm

      Best_Patriot NOT

      Know it is you that misses the point! It is your self-righteous condemnation of others that needs to stop! You cannot be an American. First Amendment right free speech.

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  • MONICNE
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:22pm

    I expect Liz Cheney to file a Friend of the Defendant motion on behalf of the neoconservative chicken hawks who were so adamant in sending this brave soldier into Combat four times in 7 years. His family will always remember that kind gesture when their husband and father is engulfed by the machinery of the uniform code of military justice quagmire.

    I pray they will be able to keep his retirement benefits, his personal effects, and coffin drape flag. But they will probably give him a DD before the firing squad.

    TEA

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:22pm

    God bless this American soldier.

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:26pm

      For what? Killing women and children in cold blood? What kind of human are you?

      Best_Patriot  
    • jblaze
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:37pm

      Best_Patriot NOT!

      Like I said D**K who made you judge and jury!

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:44pm

      Yes…God bless him. He snapped. Too many tours. Too many deaths of friends. Too long away from home. Too long in an army whose government is not supportive of it’s members. Too long in a war that has rules that help the enemy. Too many personal wounds, mental and physical. Anyone would break down in that situation.

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:50pm

      God bless SSgt Bales, he should be given a medal and PTSD counseling.

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    • TOMSERVO
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 4:21pm

      You hear that, internet? Speckledpup says he should be given a MEDAL for killing those innocent people.

      Your priorities are bizarre. You’ll fight tooth-and-nail to prevent someone from aborting a child with severe birth defects who will live a short, painful life, yet you blindly defend the act which killed nine ALREADY LIVING CHILDREN. It seems to me the only difference is that those children live in Afghanistan, so I guess they don’t count. Yuck.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 6:46pm

      This is why we are hated throughout the world. Brutal, uneducated, loud, murderers.

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  • blanco5
    Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:16pm

    So, what’s the latest on the Ft Hood shooter who is muslim?

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:23pm

      we think obama gave his beloved muslim terrorist Ft Hood shooter hassan some sort of Congressional Medal of obama-Honor.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:24pm

      Those types of people do not count for some reason. I guess if murdering is in your blood, then the progressive an liberal rationale is that you’re merely acting on instinct and cannot help yourself.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:27pm

      He is doing well, thanks for asking. The DoD has now spent $500 thousand on surgery enabling him to walk normally, and they have detained him in the brig in Rota, Spain where he is nursing back his health using a Mediterranean detoxification diet with a daily massage and Olive soap defoliation regime.

      TEA

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:27pm

      “On February 2, 2012. a military judge ruled that Hasan will stand trial on June 12, 2012. Lt.Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan’s lead attorney, said the request to delay the trial was “purely a matter of necessity of adequate time for pretrial preparation”. The prosecution is seeking the death penalty.”

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 3:35pm

      Thank you, LOCKED, for being reasonable in the face of unreasonable trolls like blanco5.

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    • C and C grandma
      Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:57pm

      NO trail till JUNE 2012, not quite 3 years after it happened. And our wonderful Attorney General Eric Holder will not call it an act of terror, it’s just a work place shooting….even though the MUSLIM PIGF&$KER shouted “ALLAHU AKBAR” before he began his rampage. He targeted just soldiers, he had shot off over 214 rounds of ammo and have 177 rounds unfired with a gun that he bought in July of that year. He had links to AL-AWLAKI and went to the same Mosque at the same time that 2 of the 9/11 hijackers were there… coincidence, maybe… there were numerous warning signs of this MUSLIM PIG….
      What he did was an act of treason against America…He took an oathe when he enlisted into the service to protect and defend…..AND ON TOP OF IT THIS MUSLIM ******* IS STILL GETTING PAID……

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