http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/23/soldier.homicide.ap/index.html

I really, really, really need to stop reading CNN.com.

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EvilMagic.net: Brian's Web Log

Another soldier comes back and goes crazy. Sadly, this has happened before.

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

The Army is a huge organization and has it's share of psychos. Too bad someone wants to put the blame on someone other than the murderer. Typical.

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Have you forgotten ...

I'm starting to think that the internet gives us too much information. Now you can hear about every bad thing that happens not only in your state, but in the country, continent, and the world.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Should'nt the headline be George W. Bush kills returning service man's wife?

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

Eh not worth it.

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"This thread is still alive? Someone should kill it."

[This message has been edited by Nubs (edited April 23, 2004).]

Once you kill someone its hard to stop.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

As Wookie06 said there are bound to be some psychotics and people with loose wits in the military, just as in any organization... Except these ones are given weapons and trained in deadly arts.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

doesnt matter if its bush's war or chirac's war, or sadams or bobs or gwens or cindy's war. not everyone comes back from battle sane. everyone definately doesnt come back unchanged.

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[teletubbie voice] BIG HUG!!!! [/teletubbie voice]

Everyone does come back changed but that is not an excuse for acts such as these.

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Have you forgotten ...

It says in there that his wife ratted him out to the military about an affair (I don't know what they would do about it though). For some people that is enough to push them over the edge.

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I'd rather be insane than spineless--Sine

Geez, what an a**hole.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

My brother-in-law is a US Marine who is in Iraq right now. According to what he told my sister, when he arrived in Iraq, one of the marines went into the bathroom with his M16, shoved the barrel into his mouth, and pulled the trigger. Yeah, I would say there are psychos in the military, whether it be homicide or suicide. War does some crazy stuff to people. Can't say I blame them although I'm not justifying what they do to deal with their problem.

-- SavageX

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"...and if you don't like that, then you need to be slugged in the face repeatedly, until my hands are soaked in blood. Have a nice day!"
http://www.savagex.net

[This message has been edited by SavageX378 (edited April 24, 2004).]

That's also a scene in Full Metal Jacket.

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If you can read this, you need better glasses.

They could do many things from taking money and rank to restriction. Possibly even dishonorable discharge although probably only in extreme circumstances.

None of the circumstances he might have faced compare to what he will now certainly face.

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Have you forgotten ...

Do they do any psychological tests before you join the army, to see if you would be mentally capable of handling war?
I know I wouldn't.

You sure a lawnmower didn't kill her? It's been known to frame others!

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Why did he plead not guilty after confessing and turning himself in?

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

-R.D. Laing

He might be trying to get off on insanity.

Seems like a good foundation to build up from.

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[19:59] Happy "Liar liar" dud: This is arguably one of the lowest points in my life.
[20:00] Happy "Liar liar" dud: I'm sitting here infront of my two computers wearing shorts and with no shirt, eating potato salad and orange juice, debating the existance of pants.

Is this an unnecessary war? Probably.

Does shooting people affect you mentally? Definitely.

Can you blame the guy? Yes. Nobody can be excused for coldblooded murder under most circumstances. But this would never have happened if we didn't go to war.

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I check my e-mail.

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited April 24, 2004).]

Probably pleading insanity, or some derivative thereof.

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

Or if he hadn't joined the military......


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"This thread is still alive? Someone should kill it."

What an ignorant statement...

Plenty of people shoot other people without going to war. And the very majority of people who come back from war don't do this.

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"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"

[This message has been edited by mscbuck (edited April 24, 2004).]

That doesn't stop my statement from being true.

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I check my e-mail.

True, but utterly pointless.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1, 2 & 3 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

it doesn't take a war to make someone have an affair or murder their wife

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Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a *****?

But...



...but he did murder his wife, and people did die that didn't need to die in Iraq.

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I check my e-mail.

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited April 24, 2004).]

okay, who is trying to blame this on the war in Iraq and Bush? Who has that much of an agenda against Bush?

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Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a *****?

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited April 24, 2004).]

See title.

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I check my e-mail.