What Made Him Snap? Soldier Goes on Killing Spree in Baghdad ‘Stress Clinic’
OPS_admin | May 12, 2009 | Comments 0
What Made Him Snap? Soldier Goes on Killing Spree in Baghdad ‘Stress Clinic’ - By Penny Coleman, AlterNet
Yesterday’s attack was the deadliest by a fellow soldier since Bush’s wars began. The trauma of combat may be the source.
At 2 p.m. (Baghdad time) Monday, a U.S. soldier opened fire on his fellow troops at the Camp Liberty stress clinic.
The stress clinic is where service members are treated for psychological conditions. As of this writing, the military is reporting that the shooter killed five American soldiers, wounded three others and is now in custody. His name, his deployment history and his association with the clinic have not yet been released.
The incident, according to military sources, is the deadliest attack on troops by a fellow soldier since these wars began.
Since our invasion of Iraq, compelling analogies have been made to the war in Vietnam. Specifically, but not exclusively, we have again invaded a country in the name of freedom. We are again treating civilian populations as collateral damage. And we have again betrayed the soldiers who are fighting in our name, soldiers who were told they would be greeted as liberators, who were given inappropriate training and shamefully inadequate equipment and asked to risk their lives for reasons that have repeatedly shifted as each of the justifications for the invasion have been exposed as lies.
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