'I didn't think of Iraqis as humans,' says U.S. soldier who raped 14-year-old girl

Lol it was ironic...look at my previous posts.

Am a Sunni, Pakistani Muslim.

Guess you missed the irony.

Am a Muslim.

I kind of doubt he was entirely sane (or at least didn't have some very twisted ideas) before going to war...

Thats a lame excuse in my opinion. War does not make you sexually frustrated.

This is disgusting and disturbing!!! I hope he gets raped and killed in jail!
The pic of his victim is just heart breaking!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340207/I-didnt-think-Iraqis-humans-says-U-S-soldier-raped-14-year-old-girl-killing-her-family.html

no of course it isn't a new thing, it's just a massively overlooked thing ('it' being the influence army training has on an individual).

Not sexually fustrated. Do you really think if he'd not been a part of this war he would consider Iraqis subhaman?

He was already a pathetic excuse for a human being before he even arrived in Iraq. In this article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072801492.html, he told a reporter BEFORE the killings that "I came over here because I wanted to kill people. The truth is, it wasn't all I thought it was cracked up to be. I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience. And then I did it, and I was like, 'All right, whatever.' "
He shrugged."
This man is deeply sick. Luckily he will never see the light of day again for what he did to that family or be present in civil society. For people wondering why he did not get the death penalty: the federal prosecutor did seek it, but all twelve of the jurors in Green's trial needed to agree on it. The twelve people could not come to a unanimous conclusion so he got life without parole.

He was already a pathetic excuse for a human being before he even arrived in Iraq. In this article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/28/AR2006072801492.html, he told a reporter BEFORE the killings that "I came over here because I wanted to kill people. The truth is, it wasn't all I thought it was cracked up to be. I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience. And then I did it, and I was like, 'All right, whatever.' "
He shrugged."
This man is deeply sick. Luckily he will never see the light of day again for what he did to that family or be present in civil society. For people wondering why he did not get the death penalty: the federal prosecutor did seek it, but all twelve of the jurors in Green's trial needed to agree on it. The twelve people could not come to a unanimous conclusion so he got life without parole.

But the US govt is at the most fault is it not because there is a news report I saw in which it said that the US is notorious in employing thugs into the army. Unfortunatley, I can not find any link but it was a tv documentary of how destitute youths involved in crime are often easy targets to influence to join.

... do you know of a country where the army does not have a lot of desperate, destitute youths?

And please don't say those kind of things if you're not informed. The extent of Stephen Green's previous criminal record was a few charges for underage possession of alcohol, tobacco and a bong. Hardly proof that he was a "thug." And he was not actively recruited by the army. He voluntarily sought out being enlisted. Even so, he needed a "moral waiver" from the army in order to serve. Admittedly, the army has increased the rate of issuing these as they're strapped for recruits while being engaged in unpopular wars. But still, moral waivers are specially given in individual cases to allow potentials "with minor criminal records and weak educational backgrounds" to serve. It's not like the army sets up a recruiting booth outside of jails. (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/us/14private.html)

Not typical america. don't generalize a nation of 300 million people into the sick act of one mentally unstable soldier. It's not like the UK army hasn't committed atrocities.

The worst thing is people deciding that everyone in every single Armed Force is the same, that they're all inhuamne, murderous, vicious people. That's the bigger crime, the bigger perpetuation of ignorance.