You’re mistaking not giving Bales the benefit of the doubt with casting judgement. His friends and family will naturally lean towards the former. Those of us who are not within that tragic circle will take our own counsel with the info at our disposal.
At the very least you don’t help your case when you ask for understanding since he had been deployed as much as he had. If he’s innocent of the charges what relevance does that have? He either killed unarmed men women and children in the dead of night or he didn’t.
Dead women and children are not the issue. They are apparently dead by some means or other.
The issue is innocent until proven guilty.
. Something you should pay close attention to. You don't have all the information regarding this case. As for my comment regarding multiple deployments, and not knowing what he has lived through prior to this incident, that should be self-explanatory. Mitigating circumstances are not used to assauge guilt. They are used to apply the appropriate sentence for the actions leading to the charges and subsequent trial (which has NOT yet taken place). The fact that you are ready to put a noose around his neck and throw the other end over a sturdy branch of the nearest approrpriate tree is telling.
Funny I don’t hear of riots all over Afghanistan after this supposed massacre. Why not? Doesn’t that seem odd? Is this supposed crime worse than Abu Ghraib? Koran burning? How did muslims act after that came out? There are so many things that don’t make sense with this case. Something is not adding up here.