Lawyer in Afghan Murder Case Hopes to Put the War on Trial

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 28, 2012 | Kim Murphy

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John Henry Browne is defending Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, charged with murdering 17 civilians. The lawyer, whose clients have included Ted Bundy, says he is driven to get the system to work for Bales.

John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who drove a purple hippie van, was rejected for the draft because he was too tall.

"I had done research, and I knew if you were over 6 foot 6 you were not qualified to go kill short people," said Browne, who has a 1969 photo of himself in an Uncle Sam hat towering above a sea of fellow antiwar protesters. "So I'd done a bunch of yoga and stretched myself — and I got some help from some Quaker doctors — and I went in with a letter saying I was close to 6-7, which I was at the time."

These days, Browne is preparing for another kind of encounter with the military, taking on the defense of Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, charged with murdering 17 Afghan civilians during a late-night shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan.

It surprised almost no one when Browne announced that he would put the Afghanistan war itself on trial. He flew to Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., to listen to Bales' stories about the war and broke down weeping.

"It was quite emotional for all of us," Browne said in a recent interview. "Bob Bales describing some of the things he's witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some of the things he's had to do: Picking up body parts from friends and putting them in bags," he said. "You saw the movie 'The Hurt Locker?' It's really a Disney movie compared to what Sgt. Bales told me."

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“I had done research, and I knew if you were over 6 foot 6 you were not qualified to go kill short people,” said Browne,”

No need to read further. This statement clearly indicates an assclown that has an agenda far beyond defending his client