'Army Times' Article Describes U.S. Troop 'Mutiny' in Iraq

[FlyingSquirrel]

Source: Editor & Publisher

At Old Mod, Charlie Company was called back in for weapons training, DeNardi said. They were told it was an accident. Then they were told it was under investigation. And then they were told it was a suicide. Reynolds confirmed that McKinney took his own life.
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.... 2nd Platoon had gathered for a meeting and determined they could no longer function professionally in Adhamiya — that several platoon members were afraid their anger could set loose a massacre.

“We said, ‘No.’ If you make us go there, we’re going to light up everything,” DeNardi said. “There’s a thousand platoons. Not us. We’re not going.”

They decided as a platoon that they were done, DeNardi and Cardenas said, as did several other members of 2nd Platoon. At mental health, guys had told the therapist, “I’m going to murder someone.” And the therapist said, “There comes a time when you have to stand up,” 2nd Platoon members remembered. For the sake of not going to jail, the platoon decided they had to be “unplugged.”


Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003686058&imw=Y

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Won't be seeing this story on CNN.

[tridim]

1. Wow, that made my heart jump in my chest.

Meanwhile, Iraq is going GREAT according to the WH and the media.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "I meant to say my vacation is going great. Smirk" - Commander AWOL

"You proles need to listen up more carefully. Oh yeah, the economy is also - SMIRJ - going great. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

[burrowowl]

2. Kick!

:dem:

[gratuitous]

3. And another generation finds out

THIS is one of the big reasons we pacifists and peaceniks, troublemakers and traitors that we are, hate, Hate HATE war. This is why "all war is sin," as Alexander Mack famously said. It doesn't just fail to accomplish anything, which is bad enough. It doesn't just drain our treasury, which is also bad. It doesn't just squander funds on futile violence, it takes that money from programs that would actually enhance our security and stature, which is very, very bad.

No, war also turns our citizens into killers. It drives them to the brink of madness, and then over the edge. It dehumanizes our so-called enemies, which is horrible, but it dehumanizes us. But none of that makes for exciting, sexy footage on the evening news, it doesn't pour treasury dollars into the overstuffed coffers of the merchants of death. So you damn betcha we're not going to hear about the 2nd platoon on CNN or NBC or CBS or anywhere else war is good business.

[NJCher]

5. war is good 'bidness

...war is good business.

Damn straight; that's why we start so many of 'em.

It's very revealing to students in my classes because I take them through how the U.S. has been sold wars by the PR industry from the very beginning, starting with WWI. So many of them don't know--have no idea--that we're the biggest warmonger country.

As another pacifist peacenik troublemaker, I consider it my job to make sure they know.



Cher

[intheflow]

4. K&R. n/t

[unhappycamper]

6. "You won't be seeing this story on Cnn" but you will see it in the Veterans forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=259

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x8540

[Toots]

8. Reminds me of Alice's Restaurant

"I want to kill"

[happyslug]

9. Direct Site to the Army Times Article

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/bloodbrothers3/

[lebkuchen]

10. Here's a side article related to your URL

For mourning dad, first duty is to his family


June 21 was not a good day for Lt. Col. Eric O. Schacht.

It wasn’t a good day for his unit, the “Blue Spaders” of the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, which he commanded. It wasn’t a good day for his family, which was scattered on three continents.

It was a day punctuated by makeshift bombs, which claimed a number of casualties. In the worst incident, five of the unit’s soldiers were killed when one such bomb detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle.

Another Germany-based soldier from a different unit was killed on her way to provide what aid she could to the occupants of the stricken vehicle.

It was a day the battalion’s chaplain stood in the unit’s operations center in Baghdad and said loud enough for everyone to hear, “Enough. Enough. There has been enough of this day.”

Then came the final kick in the gut.

Before the day was over, news came that Schacht’s 15-year-old son, Justin, was found dead in the family’s on-post house in Schweinfurt, Germany.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=56109&archive=true

The Schweinfurt unit is returning from Iraq now. It lost 55 soldiers on this tour.

The memorial to Daniel Agami, who was burned alive in his Bradley:

http://www.lindasog.com/archives/2007/06/in_memory_of_daniel_agami.html