The Filter: Soldier Accused of Waterboarding Daughter – AOL News
February 8, 2010 by John Allen · 5 Comments
AOL News is reporting a story today (in the last paragraph of this extended news release) entitled The Filter: Soldier Accused of Waterboarding Daughter . Wow! Let me ask you something. Can we make sociopaths out of our soldiers or what? I wonder how the extreme right in America feels about waterboarding now?
Now before we all get high and mighty and start insisting that we are enraged at this outlandish and brutal behavior from a soldier-father, let me ask you to consider something. Our hands are not clean of this, not by a longshot.
How much combat has this unfortunate and pitiable soldier seen? Was he involved in any way with waterboarding? Did we send him back into combat time and time again? Did anyone in the Army test this guy for his obvious unstable condition? Was he facing another combat tour overseas?
This guy is obviously a nut and I find it hard to believe that no one in the Army noticed that something was wrong with his personality.
What this guy has done is obviously wrong, but lets wait until we get all the facts. I would not be at all surprised if we took a soldier and fashioned a monster out of him.
How do you feel about these ridiculous and unnecessary wars now? We are now watching soldiers waterboarding their own four year old children.
Trust me. We are not innocents here. We have to take our share of the blame for the sociopaths we have created. This is just the beginning. We are going to see this for decades to come.
There are no innocents reading this story. I feel sick.
UPDATE: 2/9/2010
Here is an update to the story above from CNN News entitled Police: Iraq vet abused daughter, held her head in water . It seems that this soldier recently returned from a 15 month tour in Iraq.
Stand by brother and sister citizens of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We are going to see a whole lot more of this in years to come.
CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)
ok for the comments, pitty the link thus not connect to the original site
Hmmm. That waterboarding. Is that anything like when they baptize and they say, “do you believe!”? Come to think of it, since it isn’t a torture, can we use this method as opposed to listening in when all the crinimals get together and take a shower? How about we use it on that ‘Wanna be pimp’ (you know the one that tried to crack ACORN)? Wonder if he’ll get ‘religion’ somewhere along about the 183rd time? Then again, would they accept him into the fold, him being a ex-pimp and all that?
I have an idea. Instead of the ‘water treatment’ or cure whatever, why don’t we make them watch Soap Operas all day and all night, even when they sleep, At the end of a week they would confess to anything, even how they rigged the 2000 elections. “Hey Chad, how ya doing?, still getting hung up?”
Still can’t figure out why Vice (get it?) Cheney ordered a study to see if poor people steal money. Hello. For poor folks, a thousand dollars is a LOT of money, For rich folks it’s a tip, so all things considered, if poor folks steal as opposed to rich folks, which takes more money? I thought so. I can afford poor folks stealing tips, but I can’t afford rich people stealing my money.
Hey there’s another idea. Bring back public executions (especially for ex government officials and VA employees that shred Veterans Claims) and make it take forever to do it, like all the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. Think of the money Unka Sam could get back from what they stole when they were in office? Can’t get that ’stolen money’ back but we can get money, so it has some good points. When they pass out the bullets to the firing squad, how they gonna hide the only blank bullet? Interesting. Hmm. on PPV, like the others…yes, it could be done. Somebody look into this…
true, the man should’ve gotten help, someone should have noticed and come out about it, but there’s still no excuse for harming a child that young.
Well obviously there is never an excuse for harming a child. That is more than true. But we have to take a look at our part in this. This is the natural fallout of multiple combat tours foisted upon people who entered the Service simply to find work, because none is available. We are not innocents here.
This is where the bite of politics meets the flesh of reality. When we decide to be quiet and shut up in the face of this sort of national policy which involves life and death and life-altering circumstances including physical and mental disabilities for a lifetime simply because it is easier to be quiet than to resist, we have to share part of the blame.
This is only the beginning, the tip of the iceberg, the start of what is going to be an epidemic of mental health breakdowns among our troops and veterans of these debacles in Western Asia. We allowed to continue, whether we openly supported it or not. We did not do everything we could possibly could do to stop this insanity. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
I would not be surprised if we start to see this every week now for decades to come.
Interesting.