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

kudzu said:
Golsteyn, in 2010, had been deployed to Afghanistan with the 3rd Special Forces Group. Two Marines in his unit during that time in the Battle of Marja ended up getting killed by booby-trapped explosives hidden in the area.

Golsteyn and his men later found a suspected Taliban bomb maker nearby -- though he was not on a list of targets U.S. forces were cleared to kill, Fox News previously has reported. After he was detained, Golsteyn said the man refused to talk to investigators.

Under the rules of engagement, Golsteyn was ordered to release him.

However, Golsteyn was concerned that if he did so, the suspect would have in turn targeted Afghans who were helping U.S. soldiers.

“There’s limits on how long you can hold guys,” he told Fox News' Bret Baier in 2016. “You realize quickly that you make things worse. It is an inevitable outcome that people who are cooperating with coalition forces, when identified, will suffer some terrible torture or be killed.”

Golsteyn told Fox News he killed him. Two years later, he is facing the murder charge.
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How long now? Afghanistan? 18 years? Winning.
 
volsrock said:
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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You have to be a raging lunatic if you support this. The guy was being detained and Golestyn took justice into his own hands. This wasn't open combat on the field.

"During Golestyn's interview with the CIA, according to investigators, he described taking the bombmaker off the base, shooting him and burying his remains in a shallow grave. Golsteyn added that later that night, he and two other soldiers dug up the remains, brought them back to their base and burned them in a pit used to dispose of trash."
 
christiefan915 said:
You have to be a raging lunatic if you support this.
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Did you support Obama's murder of US citizens?

The Obama administration — with little to no complaint from the American people or the other two branches of government — deliberately targeted and killed US citizens in drone strikes, without those individuals ever having been given their constitutional right to due process of law.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13577464/obama-farewell-speech-torture-drones-nsa-surveillance-trump

Answer, Christiecrite.
 
evince said:
FOX IS NOW ATTACKING THE ARMY!!!!!!!!!!


when will these Russian compromont assholes be forced off the air?
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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.
 
volsrock said:
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-d...in-2010-killing-of-suspect-taliban-bomb-maker

So it's OK for Obama to kill an American Citizen in the Taliban!
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"During Golestyn's interview with the CIA, according to investigators, he described taking the bombmaker off the base, shooting him and burying his remains in a shallow grave. Golsteyn added that later that night, he and two other soldiers dug up the remains, brought them back to their base and burned them in a pit used to dispose of trash."
 
Legion said:
Did you support Obama's murder of US citizens?

The Obama administration — with little to no complaint from the American people or the other two branches of government — deliberately targeted and killed US citizens in drone strikes, without those individuals ever having been given their constitutional right to due process of law.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13577464/obama-farewell-speech-torture-drones-nsa-surveillance-trump

Answer, Christiecrite.
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I'm not here to do your bidding, leggiecrite.

As you well know I've never supported droning no matter who called for it.
 
evince said:
FOX IS NOW ATTACKING THE ARMY!!!!!!!!!!


when will these Russian compromont assholes be forced off the air?
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Never. All part of the corporate state's shtick; to keep you howling about them while your "other" side howls about Fox and you all keep right on watching and angsting.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
Never. All part of the corporate state's shtick; to keep you howling about them while your "other" side howls about Fox and you all keep right on watching and angsting.
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its very interesting how you never see anything that sets the USA on a path to a better nation


kinda Putiny of you
 
volsrock said:
So u would not have supported a drone strike on Hitler?
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If another nation, let's say for example it was a majority muslim nation like one of the 7 we have bogus non-defensive ongoing generational hot shooting wars in currently, were to do what we do militarily across the globe, americans would clamor for striking to smithereens that nation.
 
how are drones any worse than planes with pilots in them?

I have NEVER figured out that bullshit


its merely a new weapon
 
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