01-15-2008, 03:49 AM
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The New York Times is at it again
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A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have committed killings, or been charged with them, after coming home.
Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles
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The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment — along with alcohol abuse, family discord and other attendant problems — appear to have set the stage for a tragedy that was part destruction, part self-destruction.
Three-quarters of these veterans were still in the military at the time of the killing. More than half the killings involved guns, and the rest were stabbings, beatings, strangulations and bathtub drownings. Twenty-five offenders faced murder, manslaughter or homicide charges for fatal car crashes resulting from drunken, reckless or suicidal driving.
About a third of the victims were spouses, girlfriends, children or other relatives, among them 2-year-old Krisiauna Calaira Lewis, whose 20-year-old father slammed her against a wall when he was recuperating in Texas from a bombing near Falluja that blew off his foot and shook up his brain.
A quarter of the victims were fellow service members, including Specialist Richard Davis of the Army, who was stabbed repeatedly and then set ablaze, his body hidden in the woods by fellow soldiers a day after they all returned from Iraq.
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Full article:
Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles - New York Times
Notice how the NY Slime didn't bother to do a special report on murders committed by illegal immigrants and welfare recipients. That would be "racist."
But they felt the need to report 121 homicides committed by military personel over the last 6 years. That comes out to be an average of 20 homicides committed per year by an active force of 1.42 million personel.
If FDR were president he would have shut down the New York Times.
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