Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The USA has problems we need to address and war is only one of them.

The FBI receives a request to look into the activities of the CIA director and they aren't suppose to do it? Whom then? If a lady was worried about her safety involving a general and an FBI agent sending shirtless pictures and she isn't suppose to ask for help? 

Get over it. It was appropriate and necessary. 

Afghan killings case testing military system (click here)
By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press /  November 13, 2012
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. military has been criticized for its spotty record on convicting troops of killing civilians, but a hearing against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales involving a massacre in Afghanistan has shown that it isn’t like most cases.
Government prosecutors have built a strong eyewitness case against the veteran soldier, with troops recounting how they saw Bales return to the base covered in blood. And in unusual testimony in a military court, Afghan civilians questioned via a video link described the horror of seeing 16 people killed, mostly children, in their villages.
Law experts say the case could test whether the military, aided by technology, is able to embark on a new era of accountability....


6,604 U.S. service members have died (click here) in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom