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June 17, 2005

I'm Sorry Your Life Sucks There

But so does everyone else's, you piece of shit. At least you'll know what's coming at you. And I hope it makes you cry like a little girl.

The U.S. military charged a staff sergeant from the New York National Guard with murdering his two commanders at a base outside Baghdad, in what is believed to be the first case of an American soldier in Iraq accused of killing his superiors.

The military initially concluded that the June 7 deaths of Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, of Suffern, N.Y., and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, of Milford, Pa., were caused by a mortar round.

But this week the military charged Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez of Troy, N.Y., with two counts of premeditated murder, according to a statement issued in Baghdad on Thursday.

Martinez, 37, is a supply specialist with the Headquarters Company of the 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard. Esposito, 30 and the father of a 1-year-old girl, was company commander and Allen, 34 and a father of four, was a company operations officer.


Posted by tree hugging sister at June 17, 2005 11:39 AM

Comments

I heard some dumbshit on the radio yesterday, talking about how fragging is a sign of low morale, as if there's an epidemic going on.

Posted by: Ken Summers at June 17, 2005 11:49 AM

Oh, so fraggin' is thus protected speech. Nice.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at June 17, 2005 11:55 AM

Hope he doesn't even get soap-on-a-rope. Hang 'em...

Posted by: Crusader at June 17, 2005 12:02 PM

Notice that in the article, the reporter went right to the "accused has suffered recent tragedy" defense? Because one always has the right to visit tragedy on others if they're suffering. So those five kids will never see their fathers again because the killer's house burned down last month? I guess I should shave the neighbor's cat because I got a flat tire two weeks ago. That sounds about in scale.

Posted by: Nightfly at June 17, 2005 12:46 PM

'LIFE made me do it', Fly.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 17, 2005 12:50 PM

So this time it was LIFE instead of Newsweek?

Posted by: Ken Summers at June 17, 2005 01:13 PM

(bwahahaha!)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at June 17, 2005 01:18 PM

It bothers me that the proscribed form for US military executions is now lethal injection. Obviously I could think of far more suitable means without the 8th Amendment in the way, but still: hanging or shooting is quicker, cheaper, and traditional.

Posted by: Dave J at June 17, 2005 01:26 PM

'LIFE made me do it', Fly.

Ms. Sister, you don't want to know the horrible destruction I could visit on others in reply to the end of the War Horse. (Yes, now you CAN tell me to get back to work! At 2:00, anyway.)

Posted by: Nightfly at June 17, 2005 01:38 PM

It bothers me that the proscribed form for US military executions is now lethal injection. Obviously I could think of far more suitable means without the 8th Amendment in the way, but still: hanging or shooting is quicker, cheaper, and traditional.

Agreed. A box of 5.56 mm NATO rounds is less than the chems they inject, and that crappy ammo would make 'em suffer, too.

Posted by: Crusader at June 17, 2005 01:52 PM

Absolutely right, Dave. I can't be sure, but I would think it's hanging for murder. But what's really important is that it be soon.

Posted by: Ken Summers at June 17, 2005 02:17 PM

Here's a less biased article on the subject:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29815

And to show that there are more good soldiers than bad, here is an excellent article about the first woman to receive the Silver Star since WWII:

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29819

Posted by: The Real JeffS at June 18, 2005 12:44 AM