US Army Ranger Sniper ‘The Reaper’ Hits Back at Michael Moore

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Speaking of reaper when will the reaper called high cholesterol take out Micheal with a massive heart attack.

In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Nicholas Irving, author of “The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers,” reacted to liberal filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, who put out in a tweet over the weekend declaring military snipers “cowards.”


My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 18, 2015

According to Irving, Moore wasn’t qualified to make such statements about snipers.

“I don’t think he deserves the breath that I’m about to give, but I’ll just say, Michael Moore, he wasn’t there in Afghanistan and the last time I checked he’s never shot anybody through the scope or with a scoped rifle so I don’t really — I don’t think he deserves the breath that comes out of me right now for that statement,” Irving said.



See the video and the rest of the story here.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/01/19/us-army-ranger-sniper-the-reaper-hits-back-at-michael-moore/

 

[+paradox]

i'm pretty sure he's qualified to say whatever he wants as america is a free country with free speech...

who the hell is this guy telling people they aren't "qualified" to say something?

why? because you disagree with moore? riiiiight...

i think irving is a coward for trying to make a name out of himself for killing people... that's not something to try to make yourself known for... and it is tasteless to brag about sniping people...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

i'm pretty sure he's qualified to say whatever he wants as america is a free country with free speech...

who the hell is this guy telling people they aren't "qualified" to say something?

why? because you disagree with moore? riiiiight...

i think irving is a coward for trying to make a name out of himself for killing people... that's not something to try to make yourself known for... and it is tasteless to brag about sniping people...

Saying it does not make you qualified. He never said he can't say it just that he is a utter and complete idiot who every time says something is wrong and revolting.

If Irving is a coward in your eyes then I know for sure this guy is a hero on the first order. And he was not trying to make a name for himself he was defending good people who save countless lives in battle and did not want fat ass pieces of shit who live for hate talking crap that is absolutely wrong.

 

[+paradox]

how can you say he's not trying to make a name for himself?

he wrote a book about him being a sniper...

so, just because he went to another country to snipe people he doesn't know, or could be innocent, that makes him a hero?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

how can you say he's not trying to make a name for himself?

Sharing your experiences so those who do not understand what our military does is not making a name for yourself. Thats like saying a mother who wrote a book about the loss of her child from a child molester is trying to make a name for herself but instead is trying to help others from having the same loss.

he wrote a book about him being a sniper...

So?

so, just because he went to another country to snipe people he doesn't know, or could be innocent, that makes him a hero?

What makes him a hero is risking his lives for his fellow soldiers and protecting them at the same time. Not some leftist idea he just went and shot whoever he saw for no reason except for the thrill of the kill.

 

[+paradox]

how can you say he's not trying to make a name for himself?

Sharing your experiences so those who do not understand what our military does is not making a name for yourself. Thats like saying a mother who wrote a book about the loss of her child from a child molester is trying to make a name for herself but instead is trying to help others from having the same loss.
um, excuse me, there's been many and many books and videos out there that "explains what our military does"... that excuse is pathetic to say the least... and comparing it to what you said about a mother losing her child to a child molester/murderer is even more sickening...

the fact is, he made a book to make money, nothing more and nothing less... if he was just trying to spread the good word and his experiences with his country then he wouldn't be making people pay for it and he would have put it online for free or something... money is involved and that why he made the book, to make money, to brag about being a sniper that killed people and to try to make himself look like a hero...

he wrote a book about him being a sniper...

So?
so? only proves that he wants to make a name for himself... keep up with me now...

so, just because he went to another country to snipe people he doesn't know, or could be innocent, that makes him a hero?

What makes him a hero is risking his lives for his fellow soldiers and protecting them at the same time. Not some leftist idea he just went and shot whoever he saw for no reason except for the thrill of the kill.
actually, it's not a "rightist" nor "leftist" idea... it's the truth, but you right-wing fruitcakes and brainwashed sheep like to believe whatever you see on your fox news and disregard truth and facts...

there's been a lot of military personnel coming forward in telling their stories (with out doing a book, may i add) about them killing innocent people in iraq and afghanistan, for fun or by order of their command... so yes, a lot of innocent lives were shot and murdered by the usa military... just because you don't want to face it and accept it doesn't mean it's not real or it didn't happen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqPBC3ZMn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hp8HMstkE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwwMF6biCJU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItJN3USgvk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKsD-a3XKlY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKOqvZIOE84


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdhCgQHzOVo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEMKwY1vF_8
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i rest my case...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

You saying it's sickening to make that comparison just means I nailed it.

 

[+paradox]

not really...

you're the type that likes to ignore things when it goes against you, like all of those videos i posted above of military personnel that went to war and murdered innocent lives... they didn't write a fancy book of lies and try to make them money by exploiting what they did in the service to try to make money and make a name for themselves like these snipers are doing...

only proves you wrong...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

not really...

you're the type that likes to ignore things when it goes against you, like all of those videos i posted above of military personnel that went to war and murdered innocent lives... they didn't write a fancy book of lies and try to make them money by exploiting what they did in the service to try to make money and make a name for themselves like these snipers are doing...

only proves you wrong...

You have not proved anything. A few videos of whatever they are about does not prove anything except like anything in this world we have a few bad apples who do bad things or people who have a hard time coping during and after a war. But you keep up the leftist lies about our military purposely wanting to kill innocent people. Or the disgusting idea our military leaders actually told the soldiers in war to purposely kill innocent people.

 

[+paradox]

not really...

you're the type that likes to ignore things when it goes against you, like all of those videos i posted above of military personnel that went to war and murdered innocent lives... they didn't write a fancy book of lies and try to make them money by exploiting what they did in the service to try to make money and make a name for themselves like these snipers are doing...

only proves you wrong...

You have not proved anything.
yes, i have proved that the military high ranks told and encouraged soldiers and marines to kill innocent lives in iraq...

A few videos of whatever they are about does not prove anything except like anything in this world we have a few bad apples who do bad things or people who have a hard time coping during and after a war.
no, it's way more than just "a few bad apples", you're ignoring the truth like always...

But you keep up the leftist lies about our military purposely wanting to kill innocent people.
i'm not a democrat nor liberal, even though you might claim i am or whatever... i'm speaking truth, not politics, unlike you, everything you do and say are politics, and when facts & truth goes again your frame of mind, beliefs and politics--you simply go in denial mode and reject anything and everything... our military went into iraq due to bush's lies, and the military killed thousands of innocent lives... facts...

Or the disgusting idea our military leaders actually told the soldiers in war to purposely kill innocent people.
it's the truth, it's been documented, soldiers and marines have been charged as well... many and many veterans came out to say that it's the truth...

@liberty, you have this fallacy frame of mind and misguided and misinformed thoughts that all cops and military personnel are good and that they are all heroes... that they cannot do any harm or wrong-doing... and i'm sure you're going to tell me that you don't but you clearly think it due to your stance and how you talk...


Melbourne Air Force sergeant gets 10 years in prison for child enticement
http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/1/21/melbourne_air_force_.html
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Airwrecka Whatever says:
January 21, 2015 at 7:43 am
Saw American Sniper just yesterday, since I wanted to see for myself what all the fuzz was about.
Gotta say, its a pretty decent action movie. But thats kinda it…

Ive gotta admit, Im a pacifist myself, so glorifying Chris Kyle as a hero isnt really my thing.
First of all, since the movie obviously only shows the most unquestionable kills he probably made I still find it horrifying to see the character shoot a 10yo kid carrying a grenade. True, he would have probably done what his mother told him to and carried out the attack, but wouldnt shooting his leg and make him trip have done the same job in the end? Might be my misconception of sniper training and his abilities but it sure makes me think… (same goes for the kid picking up the RPG… why wait for him to touch the trigger and not shoot the ground next to him to try and scare him off?!)

Second, I cannot ignore all this talk about ‘savages’ and it being their fault for staying in the evacuated city… reminds me a lot of those wikileaks videos from gunship pilots talking about kids they killed (‘its their fault for bringing their kids into battle’)… I get where all this comes from, since Eastwood directed it but I sure as hell cant pronounce someone a hero by taking an action movie for reference.

In the end I can only suggest one watches some documentaries about the impact on the Iraqi and Afghan population to see what all this fighting has actually done for them… But I guess Im just an optimist if Id hope thats what even half those movie-goers would be going to do…

Daniel says:
January 20, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Actually, talking about probing topics is a difficulty only North Americans have. People who have experienced war first-hand, do not have reservations about these themes.
Americans are like infants, emotionally. They cannot have open discussions about social-class, or war, without the fear of being personally judged. So they do one of two things. They bray and speak loudly, like a war-cry, their views, to not be over-spken and try to claim some rightfulness in their excessive volumen – volumen in decibals can be replaced by volume in numbers with social media- Or, they profess what hey think more maturer nations would believe and parrot them. As in the ridiculous Thedbo case. While individuals unafraid to speak the truth, others like Pope Francis, remind or tell that other´s religions must be respected.

So in the final paragraph of this review, it is only the Us citizens who will not know how to answer those questions. But it is no mystery. People go to war to kill. They want the experience of killing. And use safety of a nation as an excuse to join a group committed to a final goal. Not of saving people. They could collectively build schools, lay oil and wáter pipes, etc., with the same invested financial back-up of their government. But instead, they, in their weakness of not knowing who they should become, choose to kill and know themselves in a new way.

But they are too cowardly to admit this.

I am so sick of soldiers and the military anywhere.

– Colombia, South America.

Annie says:
January 19, 2015 at 5:17 pm
I am not tired of the Iraq war: I am sick about the glorification of violence and an unjust war in Iraq, justified by lies and propaganda after the 9/11 attack, which the people of Iraq had nothing to do with. I am astounded that after the Vietnam war, Americans would be so gullible, again, to trust corrupt and greedy politicians and warmonger corporations to lead us into TWO wars that have lasted over 10 years, killed hundreds of thousands of people and conjured radicalized groups that did not exist before we invaded these foreign countries for no good reason. I will never, ever understand glorification of violence with “honor” by men like Chris Kyle, who was either deeply affected by all the lives he took, or just a psychopath with military credentials. What kind of world could you possibly think would result from the violence and torture our country sanctified, the illegal acts our “leaders” have convinced good men and women into doing, just so a very few would profit from it? I say this because I lost a family member during the Vietnam war, and cannot forget how his loss devastated our family. He was a brave, honest and honorable man drafted into a conflict initiated by paranoid and power-hungry people. Have you lost the capability to see beyond the end of a gun? I am so sick of all of this.

the iraq war was a total and complete mistake and a shame...

it only made things worse...

the iraq war was based on lies...

it crippled the us's and the world's economies...

bush crippled the freedoms and liberties of each american by destroying the us constitution by signing into law the patriot act...

end of story...

 

[Webster]

the iraq war was a total and complete mistake and a shame...

Regardless of everything else you said in the comment above, at least we agree on that one item above...

 

[+paradox]

what's the point in debating when none of you actually read/watch what i post, yet you expect me to read/watch everything you guys post (and i do) so i know where you're coming from and what you're talking about, even though it's wrong most of the time, but still... at least i completely inspect your nonsense, and rightly so, it gives me ammunition and leaves no air for y'all when truth smacks you upside the head...

now run along children...

 

[Webster]

what's the point in debating when none of you actually read/watch what i post, yet you expect me to read/watch everything you guys post (and i do) so i know where you're coming from and what you're talking about, even though it's wrong most of the time, but still... at least i completely inspect your nonsense, and rightly so, it gives me ammunition and leaves no air for y'all when truth smacks you upside the head...

now run along children...

...now, now, Freezy, I read & watch your posts--; oh, who am I kidding...

 

[+paradox]

what's the point in debating when none of you actually read/watch what i post, yet you expect me to read/watch everything you guys post (and i do) so i know where you're coming from and what you're talking about, even though it's wrong most of the time, but still... at least i completely inspect your nonsense, and rightly so, it gives me ammunition and leaves no air for y'all when truth smacks you upside the head...

now run along children...

...now, now, Freezy, I read & watch your posts--; oh, who am I kidding...

that's what i thought...

know your roll...

 

[Webster]

that's what i thought...

know your roll...

...nah, I don't think so...

 

[+paradox]

that's what i thought...

know your roll...

...nah, I don't think so...

ahh, i do think so...

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here's another one of those "few bad apples" that liberty thinks are few and far between, yeah, riiiiight...

Army sergeant guilty of sexually assaulting trainees
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/24/army-sergeant-guilty-sex-assaults/16164159/

A combat-decorated Army drill sergeant may spend 20 years in a military prison after being convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting and abusing eight female soldiers he was training in Missouri.

Victims testified that Staff Sgt. Angel Sanchez, assigned to the 14th Military Police Brigade, coerced them to have sex in the bathroom of the female barracks at Fort Leonard Wood, in a stairwell, a closet and in an office he shared with other drill sergeants.

The 30-year-old Philadelphia native, a married father of two who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault, six counts of abusive sexual contact and other charges.

At his court-martial Monday, he pleaded guilty to disobeying orders by having sex with three trainees between September 2013 and late January. Sanchez arrived at Fort Leonard Wood in August 2013.

He initially faced more than two dozen claims of sexual misconduct, including allegations from female soldiers in Afghanistan and Alaska. Several other claims were dismissed in the spring.

Third Circuit Court Chief Trial Judge Col. Jeffery Nance, who delivered the verdict Wednesday, recommended the 20-year sentence, which the fort commander must approve. The prosecution had sought 25 years in prison, while the defense urged eight.

His attorney attacked the credibility of some accusers, pointing out that they were either facing separate disciplinary actions or being booted out of the Army. He argued the sex was consensual.

Sanchez did not testify. After the verdict was announced, he apologized to his accusers, his family and the military, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

"I'm sorry I betrayed your trust, all of you," he said. "I accept responsibility for my actions, I pray that all of you realize that person who went through that stretch is not actually me."

The case emerged amid a Pentagon investigation into sexual assault in the military.

USA TODAY reported in February that the Army had disqualified 588 soldiers as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants for infractions ranging from sexual assault to child abuse to drunken driving,

A Pentagon report issued in May found a 50% increase in sex-related attacks last year that ranged from groping to rape.

The findings came nine months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced steps to combat sexual abuse.

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@liberty, there's many and many cases like these... it's an epidemic... give animals guns, weapons, tanks and toys, they will abuse the power and kill the innocent...


Army's Robert Bales gets life, no parole for Afghan rampage -- but was it justice?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/justice/robert-bales-afghan-killings/

On Friday, a military jury decided U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will get life in prison without parole for killing 16 Afghan villagers.

Yet victims left behind -- some bearing physical scars, others with emotional ones from seeing their kin indiscriminately, brutally gunned down -- say that, with that sentence, they don't feel they got justice.

Friday's decision was not entirely unexpected. In June Bales' pleaded guilty to more than 30 criminal charges, including 16 premeditated murder counts, spared himself from the prospect of a death sentence. He also pleaded guilty to charges related to illicit steroid and alcohol use.

But it still remained up to a jury of four officers and two enlisted personnel to decide whether Bales should be eligible for parole.

They decided Friday he is not, according to Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield with Joint Base Lewis-McChord. That means the 39-year-old will spend the rest of his life in a military prison.

That's not punishment enough for Haji Wazir. Now 40, Wazir was inside his home in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province in the pre-dawn hours of March 11, 2012, when Bales barged in.

What followed was a nightmare, ending with bloodied, limp and in some instances scorched bodies.

"We wanted this murderer to be executed, but we didn't get our wish," Wazir said through an interpreter Friday from the Washington state U.S. Army base where the sentence was handed down.

The sentence was not just, he added, before appealing to the U.S public to put themselves in his shoes.

"I'm asking the average American right here: If somebody jumps into your house in the middle of the night and kills 11 members of your family and tries to burn them, what punishment would you be passing on that person?"

Wazir and his family weren't the only ones torn on that horrific morning some 18 months ago.

Bales slipped away from Camp Belambay, the remote outpost where he was stationed, and into one village, where he began shooting at civilians. After that, he returned to the base, reloaded and went out again to target another village.

He left a trail of blood and gore in both villages, with nine children among the dead. Witnesses claimed that the U.S. soldier dragged some bodies of his victims' outside and set them ablaze.

The horror ended when Bales returned, once again, to Camp Belambay and turned himself in.

In the subsequent hours and days, some spoke highly about Bales, such as attorney Emma Scanlan who described him as a "devoted husband, father and dedicated member of the armed service."

Yet in Afghanistan and around the world, the massacre quickly spurred outrage.

The Taliban vowed to retaliate "by killing and beheading Americans anywhere in the country." Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggested, after meeting with villagers who'd seen the carnage and wanted Bales to be tried there to "heal our broken hearts," that the incident had put U.S.-Afghan relations at a breaking point.

"It is by all means the end of the rope here," Karzai said then. "The end of the rope that nobody can afford such luxuries anymore."

Bales was identified as the culprit days later and eventually put in solitary confinement at the U.S. military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The military announced last December that Bales faced a court-martial.

The Army soldier spoke at this week's sentencing, calling what he'd done "an act of cowardice."

"I hid behind a mask of Bravado," Bales said, according to a tweet from court from Drew Mikkelsen of CNN Seattle affiliate KING. Also admitting he'd taken steroids and drank sporadically, the soldier apologized to his victims.

"I am responsible," he said.

Because of him, some in Afghanistan are still suffering the consequences.

Haji Mohammad Naim saw Bales come into his southwest Afghanistan home around 2 a.m. and kill women there, as well as some of his children. Bullets struck him in the neck and the face.

That incident and others in which U.S. soldiers have killed civilians -- including another of Naim's sons, in a separate incident, he says -- have disgraced American forces in the eyes of many Afghans. Children in his village used to run toward U.S. troops, Naim said; now, they "run away and try to hide."

If America is to improve its image, there must be accountability, he said. And if Washington wants to help rebuild Afghanistan, "try to send the right people, not maniacs and psychos like (Bales)."

Still, even if the U.S. governments acts differently, some pain and suffering can't be undone.

Recalling tears shed by Bales' mother during the legal proceedings, Naim said, "But at least she can go and visit him.

"What about us?" he asked rhetorically. "Our family members are actually 6 feet under, and there's no way that we can visit them at all.

"They're gone."

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i can do this all day @liberty...


Melbourne Air Force sergeant gets 10 years in prison for child enticement
http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/1/21/melbourne_air_force_.html

TAMPA --

An Air Force sergeant from Brevard County is headed to prison after being found guilty of attempted child enticement.

Nicholas Yancey, 30, of Melbourne was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Yancey posted an ad on Craigslist soliciting people for quote "texting /sexting" all while on active duty.

During an investigation by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old child started chatting with Yancey and he eventually invited the "girl" to a sleepover at a hotel on MacDill Air Force Base.

Police arrested him when he went to meet her.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

not really...

you're the type that likes to ignore things when it goes against you, like all of those videos i posted above of military personnel that went to war and murdered innocent lives... they didn't write a fancy book of lies and try to make them money by exploiting what they did in the service to try to make money and make a name for themselves like these snipers are doing...

only proves you wrong...

You have not proved anything.
yes, i have proved that the military high ranks told and encouraged soldiers and marines to kill innocent lives in iraq...

A few videos of whatever they are about does not prove anything except like anything in this world we have a few bad apples who do bad things or people who have a hard time coping during and after a war.
no, it's way more than just "a few bad apples", you're ignoring the truth like always...

But you keep up the leftist lies about our military purposely wanting to kill innocent people.
i'm not a democrat nor liberal, even though you might claim i am or whatever... i'm speaking truth, not politics, unlike you, everything you do and say are politics, and when facts & truth goes again your frame of mind, beliefs and politics--you simply go in denial mode and reject anything and everything... our military went into iraq due to bush's lies, and the military killed thousands of innocent lives... facts...

Or the disgusting idea our military leaders actually told the soldiers in war to purposely kill innocent people.
it's the truth, it's been documented, soldiers and marines have been charged as well... many and many veterans came out to say that it's the truth...

@liberty, you have this fallacy frame of mind and misguided and misinformed thoughts that all cops and military personnel are good and that they are all heroes... that they cannot do any harm or wrong-doing... and i'm sure you're going to tell me that you don't but you clearly think it due to your stance and how you talk...

You have the fallacy I believe all cops and military are all good and heroes. I just know that the bad is exception not the rule. And the overwhelming 2 million military men and women when as he was a sniper did there jobs for the good of the people who serve with them and the people they were giving back a country to.

Melbourne Air Force sergeant gets 10 years in prison for child enticement
http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/1/21/melbourne_air_force_.html

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Airwrecka Whatever says:
January 21, 2015 at 7:43 am
Saw American Sniper just yesterday, since I wanted to see for myself what all the fuzz was about.
Gotta say, its a pretty decent action movie. But thats kinda it…

Ive gotta admit, Im a pacifist myself, so glorifying Chris Kyle as a hero isnt really my thing.
First of all, since the movie obviously only shows the most unquestionable kills he probably made I still find it horrifying to see the character shoot a 10yo kid carrying a grenade. True, he would have probably done what his mother told him to and carried out the attack, but wouldnt shooting his leg and make him trip have done the same job in the end? Might be my misconception of sniper training and his abilities but it sure makes me think… (same goes for the kid picking up the RPG… why wait for him to touch the trigger and not shoot the ground next to him to try and scare him off?!)

Second, I cannot ignore all this talk about ‘savages’ and it being their fault for staying in the evacuated city… reminds me a lot of those wikileaks videos from gunship pilots talking about kids they killed (‘its their fault for bringing their kids into battle’)… I get where all this comes from, since Eastwood directed it but I sure as hell cant pronounce someone a hero by taking an action movie for reference.

In the end I can only suggest one watches some documentaries about the impact on the Iraqi and Afghan population to see what all this fighting has actually done for them… But I guess Im just an optimist if Id hope thats what even half those movie-goers would be going to do…

Daniel says:
January 20, 2015 at 3:14 pm
Actually, talking about probing topics is a difficulty only North Americans have. People who have experienced war first-hand, do not have reservations about these themes.
Americans are like infants, emotionally. They cannot have open discussions about social-class, or war, without the fear of being personally judged. So they do one of two things. They bray and speak loudly, like a war-cry, their views, to not be over-spken and try to claim some rightfulness in their excessive volumen – volumen in decibals can be replaced by volume in numbers with social media- Or, they profess what hey think more maturer nations would believe and parrot them. As in the ridiculous Thedbo case. While individuals unafraid to speak the truth, others like Pope Francis, remind or tell that other´s religions must be respected.

So in the final paragraph of this review, it is only the Us citizens who will not know how to answer those questions. But it is no mystery. People go to war to kill. They want the experience of killing. And use safety of a nation as an excuse to join a group committed to a final goal. Not of saving people. They could collectively build schools, lay oil and wáter pipes, etc., with the same invested financial back-up of their government. But instead, they, in their weakness of not knowing who they should become, choose to kill and know themselves in a new way.

But they are too cowardly to admit this.

I am so sick of soldiers and the military anywhere.

– Colombia, South America.

Annie says:
January 19, 2015 at 5:17 pm
I am not tired of the Iraq war: I am sick about the glorification of violence and an unjust war in Iraq, justified by lies and propaganda after the 9/11 attack, which the people of Iraq had nothing to do with. I am astounded that after the Vietnam war, Americans would be so gullible, again, to trust corrupt and greedy politicians and warmonger corporations to lead us into TWO wars that have lasted over 10 years, killed hundreds of thousands of people and conjured radicalized groups that did not exist before we invaded these foreign countries for no good reason. I will never, ever understand glorification of violence with “honor” by men like Chris Kyle, who was either deeply affected by all the lives he took, or just a psychopath with military credentials. What kind of world could you possibly think would result from the violence and torture our country sanctified, the illegal acts our “leaders” have convinced good men and women into doing, just so a very few would profit from it? I say this because I lost a family member during the Vietnam war, and cannot forget how his loss devastated our family. He was a brave, honest and honorable man drafted into a conflict initiated by paranoid and power-hungry people. Have you lost the capability to see beyond the end of a gun? I am so sick of all of this.

the iraq war was a total and complete mistake and a shame...

it only made things worse...

the iraq war was based on lies...

it crippled the us's and the world's economies...

bush crippled the freedoms and liberties of each american by destroying the us constitution by signing into law the patriot act...

end of story...

Again I have not idea who the complete and utter idiots in those comments are but they are wrong on all counts.

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that's what i thought...

know your roll...

...nah, I don't think so...

ahh, i do think so...

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here's another one of those "few bad apples" that liberty thinks are few and far between, yeah, riiiiight...

Army sergeant guilty of sexually assaulting trainees
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/24/army-sergeant-guilty-sex-assaults/16164159/

A combat-decorated Army drill sergeant may spend 20 years in a military prison after being convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting and abusing eight female soldiers he was training in Missouri.

Victims testified that Staff Sgt. Angel Sanchez, assigned to the 14th Military Police Brigade, coerced them to have sex in the bathroom of the female barracks at Fort Leonard Wood, in a stairwell, a closet and in an office he shared with other drill sergeants.

The 30-year-old Philadelphia native, a married father of two who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault, six counts of abusive sexual contact and other charges.

At his court-martial Monday, he pleaded guilty to disobeying orders by having sex with three trainees between September 2013 and late January. Sanchez arrived at Fort Leonard Wood in August 2013.

He initially faced more than two dozen claims of sexual misconduct, including allegations from female soldiers in Afghanistan and Alaska. Several other claims were dismissed in the spring.

Third Circuit Court Chief Trial Judge Col. Jeffery Nance, who delivered the verdict Wednesday, recommended the 20-year sentence, which the fort commander must approve. The prosecution had sought 25 years in prison, while the defense urged eight.

His attorney attacked the credibility of some accusers, pointing out that they were either facing separate disciplinary actions or being booted out of the Army. He argued the sex was consensual.

Sanchez did not testify. After the verdict was announced, he apologized to his accusers, his family and the military, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

"I'm sorry I betrayed your trust, all of you," he said. "I accept responsibility for my actions, I pray that all of you realize that person who went through that stretch is not actually me."

The case emerged amid a Pentagon investigation into sexual assault in the military.

USA TODAY reported in February that the Army had disqualified 588 soldiers as sexual assault counselors, recruiters and drill sergeants for infractions ranging from sexual assault to child abuse to drunken driving,

A Pentagon report issued in May found a 50% increase in sex-related attacks last year that ranged from groping to rape.

The findings came nine months after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced steps to combat sexual abuse.

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@liberty, there's many and many cases like these... it's an epidemic... give animals guns, weapons, tanks and toys, they will abuse the power and kill the innocent...


Army's Robert Bales gets life, no parole for Afghan rampage -- but was it justice?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/justice/robert-bales-afghan-killings/

On Friday, a military jury decided U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will get life in prison without parole for killing 16 Afghan villagers.

Yet victims left behind -- some bearing physical scars, others with emotional ones from seeing their kin indiscriminately, brutally gunned down -- say that, with that sentence, they don't feel they got justice.

Friday's decision was not entirely unexpected. In June Bales' pleaded guilty to more than 30 criminal charges, including 16 premeditated murder counts, spared himself from the prospect of a death sentence. He also pleaded guilty to charges related to illicit steroid and alcohol use.

But it still remained up to a jury of four officers and two enlisted personnel to decide whether Bales should be eligible for parole.

They decided Friday he is not, according to Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield with Joint Base Lewis-McChord. That means the 39-year-old will spend the rest of his life in a military prison.

That's not punishment enough for Haji Wazir. Now 40, Wazir was inside his home in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province in the pre-dawn hours of March 11, 2012, when Bales barged in.

What followed was a nightmare, ending with bloodied, limp and in some instances scorched bodies.

"We wanted this murderer to be executed, but we didn't get our wish," Wazir said through an interpreter Friday from the Washington state U.S. Army base where the sentence was handed down.

The sentence was not just, he added, before appealing to the U.S public to put themselves in his shoes.

"I'm asking the average American right here: If somebody jumps into your house in the middle of the night and kills 11 members of your family and tries to burn them, what punishment would you be passing on that person?"

Wazir and his family weren't the only ones torn on that horrific morning some 18 months ago.

Bales slipped away from Camp Belambay, the remote outpost where he was stationed, and into one village, where he began shooting at civilians. After that, he returned to the base, reloaded and went out again to target another village.

He left a trail of blood and gore in both villages, with nine children among the dead. Witnesses claimed that the U.S. soldier dragged some bodies of his victims' outside and set them ablaze.

The horror ended when Bales returned, once again, to Camp Belambay and turned himself in.

In the subsequent hours and days, some spoke highly about Bales, such as attorney Emma Scanlan who described him as a "devoted husband, father and dedicated member of the armed service."

Yet in Afghanistan and around the world, the massacre quickly spurred outrage.

The Taliban vowed to retaliate "by killing and beheading Americans anywhere in the country." Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggested, after meeting with villagers who'd seen the carnage and wanted Bales to be tried there to "heal our broken hearts," that the incident had put U.S.-Afghan relations at a breaking point.

"It is by all means the end of the rope here," Karzai said then. "The end of the rope that nobody can afford such luxuries anymore."

Bales was identified as the culprit days later and eventually put in solitary confinement at the U.S. military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The military announced last December that Bales faced a court-martial.

The Army soldier spoke at this week's sentencing, calling what he'd done "an act of cowardice."

"I hid behind a mask of Bravado," Bales said, according to a tweet from court from Drew Mikkelsen of CNN Seattle affiliate KING. Also admitting he'd taken steroids and drank sporadically, the soldier apologized to his victims.

"I am responsible," he said.

Because of him, some in Afghanistan are still suffering the consequences.

Haji Mohammad Naim saw Bales come into his southwest Afghanistan home around 2 a.m. and kill women there, as well as some of his children. Bullets struck him in the neck and the face.

That incident and others in which U.S. soldiers have killed civilians -- including another of Naim's sons, in a separate incident, he says -- have disgraced American forces in the eyes of many Afghans. Children in his village used to run toward U.S. troops, Naim said; now, they "run away and try to hide."

If America is to improve its image, there must be accountability, he said. And if Washington wants to help rebuild Afghanistan, "try to send the right people, not maniacs and psychos like (Bales)."

Still, even if the U.S. governments acts differently, some pain and suffering can't be undone.

Recalling tears shed by Bales' mother during the legal proceedings, Naim said, "But at least she can go and visit him.

"What about us?" he asked rhetorically. "Our family members are actually 6 feet under, and there's no way that we can visit them at all.

"They're gone."

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i can do this all day @liberty...


Melbourne Air Force sergeant gets 10 years in prison for child enticement
http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/1/21/melbourne_air_force_.html

TAMPA --

An Air Force sergeant from Brevard County is headed to prison after being found guilty of attempted child enticement.

Nicholas Yancey, 30, of Melbourne was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Yancey posted an ad on Craigslist soliciting people for quote "texting /sexting" all while on active duty.

During an investigation by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old child started chatting with Yancey and he eventually invited the "girl" to a sleepover at a hotel on MacDill Air Force Base.

Police arrested him when he went to meet her.

Please do so and you will never even get past the 1% of the bad that are out there in our military.
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what's the point in debating when none of you actually read/watch what i post, yet you expect me to read/watch everything you guys post (and i do) so i know where you're coming from and what you're talking about, even though it's wrong most of the time, but still... at least i completely inspect your nonsense, and rightly so, it gives me ammunition and leaves no air for y'all when truth smacks you upside the head...

now run along children...

I read the posts because I can do it on the quick. But if you are going to post 30 minute, 60 minute and longer videos I will not bother on something I usually can find fault in. Again if you want to use a video to make a point when you create a topic fine. Or if you want to show a short video that makes a point thats great and I will look at it. But to post a string of videos is what you like have at it but I will not waste my time.

 

[+paradox]

yeah, you wont waste your time with truth...

posting truthful videos is more powerful than fake words of yours, any day of the week...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

yeah, you wont waste your time with truth...

posting truthful videos is more powerful than fake words of yours, any day of the week...

Possibly truthful in this case? But definitely taken woefully out of a realistic context.

 

[+paradox]

yeah, you wont waste your time with truth...

posting truthful videos is more powerful than fake words of yours, any day of the week...

Possibly truthful in this case? But definitely taken woefully out of a realistic context.

taking real events and real news is "taken woefully out of realistic context"?