For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.


Saturday, April 26, 2014

the new rotten one in the bunch

So -- I had good intentions to gather all the info available about all the "bad apples" in the U.S. military who killed Iraqis, Afghans, and each other with no apparent justification or even minimal provocation.  I was going to cross-reference it and make this the go-to site for such research.  It didn't happen.  Maybe never will.  So I'm just going to post links whenever a new incident comes to light or new developments are reported. 

Army Staff-Sergeant Michael Barbera case reexamined; preliminary hearing, with former Spc. John Lotempio as witness, at Lewis-McChord
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