Posted on 03/15/2012 7:43:22 PM PDT by Mariner
SEATTLE (AP) - A Seattle attorney who represented a teenage thief known as the "Barefoot Bandit" said Thursday he has been asked to represent the U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians last weekend.
John Henry Browne told The Associated Press the 38-year-old staff sergeant is from the Seattle area and asked to be represented by him when he was taken into custody. Brown, a prominent Seattle defense lawyer, said he has met with the sergeant's family, and unless the soldier is returned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the next few days, he will travel to meet the soldier wherever he is in custody.
Browne declined to release the soldier's name, which the Army has withheld.
"Everybody is worried about the safety of his family, and I am honoring that," Browne said.
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Not Jose Baez?
Add alchohol to brain trauma...danger. Add mind games to the whole scenario...first your not going..oh yes you are going.
Take a normal soldier and send him on four tours..it is a serious strain.
You know Ollie wrote about wanting to go back to Nam..his wife threatened to leave him...he was treated for mental issues.
This solider should have been treated medically and not swept over again..handwriting was on the wall. Should have healed his tortured mind before shipping him out.
Obama has demoralized our military. I still say until ALL INFO IS OUT...reserve the name calling. The man was decorated..he has children.
Add alchohol to brain trauma...danger. Add mind games to the whole scenario...first your not going..oh yes you are going.
Take a normal soldier and send him on four tours..it is a serious strain.
You know Ollie wrote about wanting to go back to Nam..his wife threatened to leave him...he was treated for mental issues.
This solider should have been treated medically and not swept over again..handwriting was on the wall. Should have healed his tortured mind before shipping him out.
Obama has demoralized our military. I still say until ALL INFO IS OUT...reserve the name calling. The man was decorated..he has children.
And I smell a troll.
/johnny
God bless you.
Ten bucks says that place would get peaceful and orderly very quickly in that case.
If the U.S. government ever sends soldiers into a foreign country for a military campaign, then every child in the 18-30 age group of every member of the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government gets drafted into service and sent off with them.
Let Obama's kids get sent off to Afghanistan as soon as they're old enough. And let Barbara and Jenna Bush fly the helicopters over there with them.
One positive development post-Vietnam is tha the days of having U.S. citizens conscripted and shipped off to a foreign land for a half-@ssed military campaign just because some @sshole in the White House thinks it's a good idea are over.
I know perfectly well what it takes for a contract.
And what is required. It cost me. Blood and treasure.
Your posting history says much more about you than anything I could ever say.
Dig deeper.
/johnny
Would advise any kid thinking of enlisting..DONT DO IT. Also, what the hell are we going to gain from being in Africa or even Afghanistan? have our oil prices gone down? will we ever change such a primitive society that has never evolved into the current century? if the war is about oil..for Gods sake..drill HERE! if the war is about nation building...get the f out.
Mariner, no dear one..not God bless me..God be with our ravaged troops whose voices are being silenced, who endure unimaginable heat and horrors...ruined lives.
21 posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:23:13 PM by Radiated Spam: “I just finished my fourth tour. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back. I.can tell you among the seasoned vets there is a lot of resentment going omtowards the American public.”
Welcome to Free Republic, and thank you for your service. You deserve to hear that. We disagree, but your service gives the rest of us the ability to exercise the First Amendment.
It happens in the fog-of-war. No excuse, but it is reality when boys (18 and such) are taught to kill! I'm surprised that this hasn't happened more often with all the repeated deployments our troops have had to endure in that worthless sh*thole of a country.
Still, if true, the sargent needed help. I can understand opening fire on the barbaric men anywhere and anytime, but women and children? Not acceptable.
God bless you Kate.
Too bad it wudn't for somethin'.
Mariner, tell me why we are over there? in Afghanistan?
“Correction: I don’t think the U.S. military has the moral authority ... “
The US Military does.
Exactly.
Good 'un!
Hell Kate, you've heard the story before:)
It started as an effort to depose the Taliban and make 'em pay for hosting those terrorist camps that trained those 911 bombers and many others.
However, then those damn politicians got involved and things got out of control.
We should have been out of there at the end of 2002, mid-2003 at the LATEST.
Mission complete.
11 years in Afghanistan. The Russkies knew better and pulled out after 9.
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