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Originally Posted by peragro
See WWII thread in which it is given that armies are made of people and any population of people will commit crimes. Just because you live in Berkeley I don't automatically assume that you're a murdering rapist even though you have a violent crime rate of almost 60/100000 there. Thus I think it proper to not assume that because some soldiers commit crimes that all soldiers are criminals. This is evidently what the phony soldiers and their sycophants are trying to prove.
I don't wish you or anyone to take the above as any excuse for a soldier who commits a crime. They should be punished to the full extent.
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Puh-lease, if there are people out there who believe that all soldiers are criminals, they will be rightly marginalized soon enough. Only a fool would believe that. Conversely, to believe that our guys are somehow too noble to ever engage in untoward activity with Iraqis is equally inane.
We often hear about how Blackwater guys are former military, trained to highest standards, etc. Still, we have the BW guy who got drunk and shot and killed the Iraqi VP's bodyguard for sport according to the accounts I've read. He was rushed out of the country and faced no charges.
It's outta control over there dude. Face it.