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Mar 03
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War, What Is It Good For? (Creating Sociopaths)

So I just saw one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen, really the kind of thing that puts any number of girls and any number of cups to shame. Here is a video of a US soldier lobbing a helpless little puppy off a cliff. It is disgusting.
It also says something about the state of our society, our country, and obviously our military. We create monsters, total sociopaths to go off and kill in the name of our country, supposedly “protecting “freedom” and “spreading democracy”, but we are really propping up our own neocolonial interests (or, in this case, the neocolonial interests of Israel) all over the world to expand power, privilege and the pocketbooks of corporate CEO’s and their allies. We create killers, who can’t be turned on and off like lights, they are killers for life, and many have shown they have little problem torturing and killing civilians, there have been countless reports of all kinds of despicable and depraved acts from the US military, just as there were coming out of Vietnam.

Of course throwing a puppy off of a cliff isn’t as bad as other horrible acts of violence they have committed, but it does speak volumes of their disregard for life, their sick enjoyment of violence and destruction, their absolute lack of compassion or empathy, and not just from the person doing it, but all involved who instead of stepping in to stop it, just laughed and filmed. Experts in abuse have long known that there is a very strong link between animal abusers and human abusers, each being a very strong indicator of the other. It takes the same kind of person to commit violence against animals as it does to commit violence against people. Here is a human story, one of the most grotesque and appalling examples of brutality I’ve heard come out of Iraq, about how three soldiers took turns raping a 14 year old girl in Iraq, and then killed her and her family, and this is no doubt not a unique event:
The girl and three family members were allegedly killed by four US soldiers.

The four are alleged to have helped a former private - Steven Green, who has since left the army - plan, carry out and cover up the attack. Mr Green has pleaded not guilty in a federal court and will be tried separately in the US.

A fifth soldier is alleged to have lied to cover up for his colleagues.

One of the soldiers, Steven Green, said he “wanted to go to a house and kill some Iraqis,” it alleged.

The four eventually went to a house about 200 metres (yards) away and put the parents and their five-year old daughter in the bedroom, but kept the older girl in the living room.

According to Mr Barker’s statement, he and Mr Cortez took it in turns to rape or attempt to rape her.

Mr Barker heard shots from the bedroom, and Steven Green emerged with an AK-47 in his hand saying “They’re all dead. I just killed them.”

According to the testimony, Mr Green then also raped the girl and shot her dead.

Her body was doused in kerosene and set alight.