Press TV-American Dream-US 'Kill Team' on Trial-04-10-2010 (Part 2)

In this episode of American Dream the trial of US army soldiers charged with being part of a "Kill Team" that targeted civilians in Afghanistan is discussed.

In the military court, one of the 5 soldiers is accused of targeting civilians in Afghanistan and killing them for sport and as a game. Similar incidents happened in Iraq as well e.g. the Haditha massacre of 24 Iraqi men, women and children in 2005.

What is asked in this program is if the "Kill Team" mentality exists in the US military. Michael Lane with the IntElephant Strategies believes that in general soldiers are trained to kill. They are trained to identify an enemy and kill and so in that sense they are a "kill team" but there are rules of engagement that govern how that killing is supposed to be done. "If they found, in fact, guilty of these heinous crimes, that the rules of engagement have been violated, I would expect that the punishment would be quite severe."

Tony Welch, with the Dewey Square Group, believes that not enough attention has been paid to the mental health of soldiers overall; they are suffering from a lot of stress and all sorts of manifestations of stress are present e.g. suicide, drug use, alcohol abuse, perhaps carrying out criminal activities in the occupied countries.

Role of video games in such incidents is also analyzed.

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[cHUCHo458]

After we the us finish the evil, horrible things we are doing to the rest of the world just to feed the monster we have created with cocaine, oil, etc but the day the monster chocks on coke and too much oil, the ants will climb over the monster and the bones will be clean, what we the us people are doing to others is what or worse will be done to us, just think of it.

[BankofSpirit]

what are these fruit-loops, pro-war/pro-murder, saying we should be hugging/kissing who are apes, eugenicists toys, murder children, laugh. those who kill beings & guard dolls/doll makers & doll-air sup-liars are sane to begin with? war's a racket, Zionists, in what they've evolved from/to, are from the lowest form of life, snake, carpet crawlers, truly, the dead in life, leading fools to their eternal grave, tricking the good to be bad to continue usurping life for death/disease, da-Zee's.

[welcome1007]

ur dirty mums pussys ur time wil come u dirty zionist mutha fukers curse al ur fukin nation were gna take over the world watch how the tables turn