Its always hard to remember things when you're blacked out drunk

That being said, after 4 tours, injuries, an unwanted deployment in the butthole of the world where you watch your friends get killed by your "allies and numerous other issues I can't say I blame him for losing his mind.

Not saying I agree with it, but I at least can have some small semblance of where he was coming from. Either way, that part of the world brings ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the table and we should just leave it be and let them tear themselves apart.

So, this guy goes into uncontrolled murder sprees and has no idea it's happening? Then I don't see much value in discussing whether he'll ever re-enter society. As such, we'd get the best mileage out of his prosecution by handing him over to the Afghanis.

Good-bye, crazy dude.

Does the little jaggoff have any memory of all those old people he swindled as a stock broker?

And on that subject, how does a white collar criminal escape justice simply by enlisting? This isn't the French Foreign Legion and I don't think "service comes with a pardon". I would like to know more.

why would you kill all those blankets?!?!?!

Why's it always gotta be the black half?

Thousands of veterans come home, shellshocked or not, and we're just not hearing thousands of stories of people entering houses at night and blowing away entire families. This mass murderer should get thrown to the Afghan police.

nekom: CitizenTed: So, this guy goes into uncontrolled murder sprees and has no idea it's happening? Then I don't see much value in discussing whether he'll ever re-enter society. As such, we'd get the best mileage out of his prosecution by handing him over to the Afghanis.

Good-bye, crazy dude.

I don't think anyone out there will be making the argument that he will ever re-enter society. His days of freedom are gone no matter what pans out. The question at this point is whether he'll be killed, pounding rocks at Leavenworth for life or locked up in a looney bin for life. There's no way he'll be handed over to the world court or Afghan authorities, that's just not in the cards.

And of course the larger question, why isn't the mental health of active duty service men and women as well as veterans not taken more seriously in the USA?

I agree we wont hand him over to anyone. We will pay $37K a year for 3 hot meals and a clean concrete room with Cable Tv. He will have Dental and Health benefits and most likely die of sheer boredom.

Our favorite war heros were all insane if you think about it. Watch Patton, Rambo or any other war story. We salute the homicidal maniacs in hollywood and wonder why our soldiers shoot people.

Ah, the old "Oranthal James" defense.

been stated before he went to war he was found guilty of swindling someone for 1 some million or so bucks and had to pay back

Not really out of bounds in the terms of psychotic breaks. Victims of this will often not be able to remember what happened during or close after, the event. Not saying that his scumbag mouthpiece is is lying, because they all do, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.


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I've always felt the "I drank too much, I'm under pressure, Life sucks, I didn't take my meds" defense was crap. If the situation occurred once, it will occur again and that same weak sack of crap would do it again to some other group.

Fry him. Fry his kids, because being a weak suck is generally genetic.

Thanks to the simple religious folk, we already have far too many people on the planet as it is. The defective should be expunged.

Diogenes: Look at the people who said this guy was a hero and it was a shame he didn't kill more innocent Afghans.

Are those people insane, too?

/rhetorical question

Yes. Yes, they are.

/non-rhetorical answer.

As a defense attorney I am floored by how much this lawyer is talking to the press. He needs to stop giving press conferences for a while because there is no way he will ever make this defendant seem sympathetic.

nekom: And of course the larger question, why isn't the mental health of active duty service men and women as well as veterans not taken more seriously in the USA?

balanced budget. fiscal responsibility. waste of taxpayer dollars. big government. whatever.

/war spending is only good for the GOP as far as the unchallenged no-bid trillions to KBR and Halliburton. after that we got no money for it.

If you've effectively taken their hearts and minds from them, did you also win them?

/deep and horrendously stupid thoughts

Sounds like Mr. Bales is suffering from a malady known as CRSWIC (pronounced "CHRIS-WICK"). It means "Can't Remember Sh*t When It's Convenient."

Guy #1: Yo, man! Where's the $100 that I loaned you last week?
Guy #2: $100???? I have no recollection of this monetary transaction that you are referring to.
Guy #1: You CRSWIC-ing!!! Cut that sh*t out!

Pretty soon, Mr. Bales won't even remember his childhood.

Contents Under Pressure: Thousands of veterans come home, shellshocked battle fatigued or not, and we're just not hearing thousands of stories of people entering houses at night and blowing away entire families. This mass murderer should get thrown to the Afghan police.

/Better not be obscure

Wait, if you kill people in another country, you can still get in trouble for it back in the US?!? This throws some serious wrench in my GTA Style Third World Cross C*ntry Bonanza vacation plans...

Do I win anything because I went to the same High School as him?

Eating Old People to Save Social Security: That being said, after 4 tours, injuries, an unwanted deployment in the butthole of the world where you watch your friends get killed by your "allies and numerous other issues I can't say I blame him for losing his mind.

That might work out for him if he was being tried in a civilian court.

He's going to be in front of a panel of military officers and seniors NCOs, every single one of which has personally or has close friends have N tours in the various buttholes of the world, been injured, seen friends maimed, are on their second, third or fourth marriages or given it up entirely, been pissed off the way the "allies" don't say a thing while you roll toward an IED, and none of them shot a single Afghani, much less sixteen of them.

It also doesn't help that he was injured, then initiated on his own the process to go before a medical review board to justify why he could stay in the Army and be deployable. Don't say this wasn't an unwanted tour. The Army wasn't going to keep him in, and he argued to be stay in and be deployable.

This guy's lawyer may be able to work a jury made of the people that couldn't get out of jury duty. He hasn't had much luck in front of panels of college educated military professionals. See his last military client, Ehren Watada.

His lawyer is actually biatching about how there's no forensic evidence taken at the scene, and that nobody has been back since. Your honor, an evil brown person stole my clients uniform and performed these dastardly deeds, then used afgan voodoo to plant only fragments of memories into his head. He is innocent!!

Mugato: A few days before the incident, his wife put their four-bedroom house up for sale for $229,000 - $51,000 less than they paid for it in 2005.

I present to you the real victim here.

maybe the wife told him she was boffing the mailman. That has been known to make dudes go nuts.

I think he should be tried in Afghanistan, after all, they were Afghani civilians.

It all makes sense now.

We'll call a mulligan on this one.

This murdering scumbag ripped off an old man for 1.5 million when he was part of a criminal investment scam.

He was ordered to pay it back and never paid one cent.

He has a long history of crooked behavior.
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Report: Bales committed fraud in 2000 as stock trader

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