i have lost all respect for the government, the us armed forces, and each & every solider out in iraq in this moment.
is this what our country represents?
fourteen.
the girl was fucking fourteen!!!! years old! and they took turns raping her? then waited and plotted to kill her family? mother, father, six-fucking-year-old sister? and for what?! for what purpose? and no, you can’t blame something like this on the harshness of being in the war. i don’t care how much war fucks up a solider’s head, that’s no reason to stop behaving like a fucking human being.
and they don’t know if they’ll pursue the death penalty or not? he was discharged on a fucking personality disorder?!?!?! so…if you’re an iraqi woman…it’s not rape and murder it’s a personality disorder?! ok, i know i’m drawing straws there…but flip it for a second: america is invaded, or no, even better…an american tourist is in her hotel room in another country when foreign soliders storm in. they rape her, they mock & humiliate her, and then they kill her. you fucking know it would be about 0.2 seconds before we ended up bombing the shit out of said country in retaliation. less, even.
i don’t…i don’t even know anymore. i’m so disgusted. outraged. repulsed. and shamed. shamed for the country as a whole.
the more stories like these pile up, the higher the iraqi death toll climbs (civilian & military alike), the more it becomes apparent that we can never make up for the atrocities we have committed as a nation. there just isn’t time enough in the world to heal the wounds we’ve inflicted upon the nation of iraq & it’s people.
