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US Soldiers killing for sport in Afghanistan

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Filed under: Reads — Posted by: TheNameIHave

Sending young soldiers to war with no reason to come home, facing unemployment, families breaking up, trauma, hashish, heroine and all sorts of drugs, and testosterone rush 24-7. And there, there’s no law, no order, no reason for being there. Do people care about these boys fighting over there? How about if we all had stopped and thought a bit before we lock-stepped into wars for no good reason.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded murder.

“So we met this guy by his compound, so Gibbs walked him out, set him in place, was like standing here,” says Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, detailing how, on patrol earlier this year and under the command of his sergeant, Calvin R. Gibbs, he and others took an Afghan man from his home and killed him.

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