The Mess in Mess O'Potamia just isn't going to get better any time soon, no matter how many times Beloved Leader chants "freedom agenda, freedom agenda".
The murder of 14 year-old girl and her family was a result of the NeoCon "freedom agenda" that Beloved Leader and his BFF Joe Lieberfuck are so enthusiastic about. It looks like one of the soldiers involved has decided to plead and roll over on his co-defendants.
A US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.
James Barker agreed to the plea deal at the start of his court-martial in the US to avoid the death penalty, his civilian lawyer said.
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In addition, former soldier Steven Green has been charged in a civilian court and is awaiting trial in a Kentucky jail.
He was discharged from the army for a personality disorder earlier this year, and in July pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and sexual assault.
Steven Green's mental capacity has been discussed elsewhere, and will be again. But now other soldiers who would have had normal lives into their 20s, probably had families and kids and grown old remembering how badly it sucked to be in Iraq, but proud of their service have had it all taken away from them.
They did the deed, and they have to pay for it; but if The Drunken Deserting Fratboy Coward had not had to get his war on, they never would have been in the time or place to commit these acts. It's not an excuse, but it is a fact.
