I’m Sorry Your Life Sucks There
But so does everyone else’s, you piece of shit. At least you’ll know what’s coming at you. And I hope it makes you cry like a little girl.
The U.S. military charged a staff sergeant from the New York National Guard with murdering his two commanders at a base outside Baghdad, in what is believed to be the first case of an American soldier in Iraq accused of killing his superiors.
The military initially concluded that the June 7 deaths of Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, of Suffern, N.Y., and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, of Milford, Pa., were caused by a mortar round.
But this week the military charged Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez of Troy, N.Y., with two counts of premeditated murder, according to a statement issued in Baghdad on Thursday.
Martinez, 37, is a supply specialist with the Headquarters Company of the 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard. Esposito, 30 and the father of a 1-year-old girl, was company commander and Allen, 34 and a father of four, was a company operations officer.
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June 17, 2005 11:39 am
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I heard some dumbshit on the radio yesterday, talking about how fragging is a sign of low morale, as if there’s an epidemic going on.
Oh, so fraggin’ is thus protected speech. Nice.
Hope he doesn’t even get soap-on-a-rope. Hang ’em…
Notice that in the article, the reporter went right to the “accused has suffered recent tragedy” defense? Because one always has the right to visit tragedy on others if they’re suffering. So those five kids will never see their fathers again because the killer’s house burned down last month? I guess I should shave the neighbor’s cat because I got a flat tire two weeks ago. That sounds about in scale.
‘LIFE made me do it’, Fly.
So this time it was LIFE instead of Newsweek?
(bwahahaha!)
It bothers me that the proscribed form for US military executions is now lethal injection. Obviously I could think of far more suitable means without the 8th Amendment in the way, but still: hanging or shooting is quicker, cheaper, and traditional.
‘LIFE made me do it’, Fly.
Ms. Sister, you don’t want to know the horrible destruction I could visit on others in reply to the end of the War Horse. (Yes, now you CAN tell me to get back to work! At 2:00, anyway.)
Agreed. A box of 5.56 mm NATO rounds is less than the chems they inject, and that crappy ammo would make ’em suffer, too.
Absolutely right, Dave. I can’t be sure, but I would think it’s hanging for murder. But what’s really important is that it be soon.
Here’s a less biased article on the subject:
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29815
And to show that there are more good soldiers than bad, here is an excellent article about the first woman to receive the Silver Star since WWII:
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29819