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    Default Former Green Beret Charged In The Death Of Suspected Taliban Bomb Maker.

    A former Green Beret who told Fox News in 2016 that he killed a suspected Taliban bomb maker nearly a decade ago during combat operations in Afghanistan is now being charged in the man’s death

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-de...ban-bomb-maker

    So it's OK for Obama to kill an American Citizen in the Taliban!
    Last edited by volsrock; 12-15-2018 at 02:14 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    A former Green Beret who told Fox News in 2016 that he killed a suspected Taliban bomb maker nearly a decade ago during combat operations in Afghanistan is now being charged in the man’s death

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-de...ban-bomb-maker

    So it's OK for Obama to kill an American Citizen in the Taliban!
    This is america hon, it is ok for whoever has power over another to do whatever he/she can get away with. You know this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    This is america hon, it is ok for whoever has power over another to do whatever he/she can get away with. You know this.
    So u admit Obama killed an American citizen because he had power and could get away with it!

    Hmm

    Has Trump done that yet?

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    Volscrock, please try to think for a change.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    So u admit Obama killed an American citizen because he had power and could get away with it!

    Hmm

    Has Trump done that yet?
    Of course he did, is this news to you? Partisanshitheads. Who knows what all Don has done yet? He can't even allow you to see his tax returns hon. We do know Don got cucked on the world stage by MBS' liquification of an american resident journalist.

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    I thought that was what Green Berets were trained to do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jade Dragon View Post
    Volscrock, please try to think for a change.
    Take your own advice!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    A former Green Beret who told Fox News in 2016 that he killed a suspected Taliban bomb maker nearly a decade ago during combat operations in Afghanistan is now being charged in the man’s death

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-de...ban-bomb-maker

    So it's OK for Obama to kill an American Citizen in the Taliban!
    Awalaki was a recruiter and a bomb maker. He was an enemy combatant..

    The Green Beret killed the man in cold blood and buried him secretly only to dig him up and burn the body. He wasn't following orders from his superiors.. Remember, he took an oath.
    He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    I thought that was what Green Berets were trained to do?
    Green Berets are trained to take orders.
    He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Green Berets are trained to take orders.
    Like at Burger King or McDonald's?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Awalaki was a recruiter and a bomb maker. He was an enemy combatant..

    The Green Beret killed the man in cold blood and buried him secretly only to dig him up and burn the body. He wasn't following orders from his superiors.. Remember, he took an oath.
    an enemy combatant

    That's what you do you kill them

    Doesn't matter if you use a drone like Obama did or you did what this guy did

    the difference is 1 is being punished for it and the other one is not

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    an enemy combatant

    That's what you do you kill them

    Doesn't matter if you use a drone like Obama did or you did what this guy did

    the difference is 1 is being punished for it and the other one is not
    war crimes are war crimes idiot

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    https://www.stripes.com/news/us/army...rview-1.443502



    The Army's Criminal Investigation Command has reopened its investigation of an Afghanistan war hero who Army officials said confessed to killing an unarmed Taliban detainee.
    The service is again scrutinizing former Maj. Mathew Golsteyn after he appeared in a Fox News television interview in October and acknowledged that he had killed a Taliban bombmaker who had been held as a detainee during the bloody battle of Marja in February 2010.
    The bombmaker was not on a list of targets that U.S. forces had been cleared to kill, according to Army documents; Golsteyn said that letting go of the insurgent meant the Taliban member could later target Afghans who are helping U.S. troops.
    "You realize quickly that you make things worse," Golsteyn said in the interview. "It is an inevitable outcome that people who are cooperating with coalition forces, when identified, will suffer some terrible torture or be killed."



    Golsteyn first acknowledged killing the detainee during a polygraph test while he was interviewing for a job with the CIA in 2011. A lengthy military probe followed. Army documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act last year show that the service investigated Golsteyn on charges of murder and conspiracy but closed the case after determining that it did not have any evidence to prosecute. The results of his polygraph would not be admissible in court, defense officials said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    war crimes are war crimes idiot
    So let's get this straight... Killing an enemy combatant with a gun is a war crime

    Killing an enemy combatant with a drone from the sky that is also is an American citizen is not a crime

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