Convicted soldier: 'You probably think I'm a monster'

[47of74]

Source: CNN

PADUCAH, Kentucky (CNN) -- "You probably think I'm a monster."

That's what FBI agents said former U.S. soldier Steven Green told them nearly three years ago about accusations that he had raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killed her and her family.

Green was found guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Paducah of the crimes and could face the death penalty.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/11/us.soldier.iraq.killings/index.html

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Yes, I do think that guy is a monster. He dishonored every last man and woman who ever put on the uniform of the United States Armed Forces and gave honorable service to our nation.

[ck4829]

1. If it rapes and kills little girls like a monster...

[AndyA]

2. Yes, asshole, you are a monster.

I have no idea what could have possibly driven you to perform such a horrific act upon a young woman and her family, who did nothing to harm you.

You must have a lot of pent up anger and hatred inside. How you got to be this way, I can't begin to understand because I could never imagine doing such things to another person or animal.

I'm guessing our self-centered, sick, "me first" society that puts personal needs above all else is ultimately responsible. We tolerate our government abusing others, then say we must look forward instead of holding those responsible accountable for their actions. Forgive and forget. Forgive and forget. Move on. We don't have the votes.

Maybe when we get someone in charge who's really willing to put their foot down against ALL INJUSTICE, ALL DISCRIMINATION, and ALL CRIMES, we'll be able to fix this mess.

I'm still waiting for that to happen. :(

[OregonBlue]

3. These guys planned this in advance. Yes, he is a monster.

[rateyes]

4. Deport him to Iraq, along with the rest of the war criminals...

namely, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, et al.

[liberalmuse]

5. No, you're worse than a monster.

Monsters are beasts that kill on instinct because they can't help themselves. You're worse than a serial killer, because they have no conscience and the overwhelming compulsion to do what they do. You have the distinction of being amongst the worst kinds of human beings that ever existed. A person with a soul and a conscience that planned to murder an entire family and rape an innocent girl on a fucking whim, because you could. If there was a hell, you'd be in the 9th circle.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. No more a monster than any other multiple murderer. He did say that her thought Cheney and Bush

deserved arrest.

"All of my buddies were getting killed over there. My lieutenant got his face blown off. ... George Bush and Dick Cheney ought to be the ones that are arrested."

Green, a high school dropout, was a product of Bush's hometown of Midland, Texas. He had enlisted in 2005, leaving the hot, dry, oil-rich land of the Permian Basin for another hot, dry, oil-rich land.

[Mariana]

18. "Bush and Cheney ought to be the ones arrested"...

"THE ones arrested" INSTEAD OF HIM is what he meant. He's absolved himself in his own mind of any wrongdoing, it sounds like.

[47of74]

20. Just like Bush and Cheney, and most Republicans for that matter

Everything they do wrong is ALWAYS someone else's fault.

[Vehl]

7. yep he is

He is stating the obvious
it does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

[Old Coot]

8. He was discharged for having antisocial personality disorder.

For more information read the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_D._Green

[Mariana]

16. Then it was probably just a matter of time

until he conjured up some excuse to rape and murder. Notice that he refuses to take responsibility for his acts and blames others. If he hadn't been caught this time he probably would have done it again, too.

[Xenotime]

9. Monster doesn't begin to describe this poor excuse of a human being.

[Blandocyte]

10. Ummmm, yeah. Yeah, I do think that.

Well said.

[MineralMan]

11. Yeah, pretty much, Rapo boy...

[salguine]

12. The only punishment suitable for this piece of shit

would be to load his ass into the back of an APC, drive to the town where his victims lived, pull into the town square, make sure everyone knows who he is, open the back door, kick his ass out, and drive away.

[Mnemosyne]

14. Hear, hear! n/t

[Downwinder]

13. Just a low end product of a depraved sociopathic society.

[fbahrami]

15. just remember

the military trains kids to kill. In this case, he was caught. Yes, he is a monster, but not all is his fault. The uniform and honorable service are excuses. Defending your country may be honorable, but attacking another country is not.

[LeftyMom]

17. Pretty sure there's no training to rape teenage girls.

Don't excuse the sick fuck. It really is his fault. Of course the invasion and occupation of another country is wrong, but so is rape. While his role in the former was dictated from above, the latter was his idea and his decision.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Have you noticed the pain you felt reading this story the first time hasn't gone away?

This is a vicious killing time doesn't seem to affect. The agony is there as fully now as it was then, realizing what that child and her family had to face alone with absolutely no hope whatsoever of being rescued at the last minute.

As has already been stated here, there is nothing lower than this.

Not only is he a monster, but he's a monster who would have been out on the streets, probably resuming his old life, with no one the wiser in the United States, if all had gone according to plans when the military simply turned him loose.

[alfredo]

21. A blanket party would be too good for him.

His superiors bear some responsibility. A breakdown of discipline makes such crimes more likely.

For those who don't know: a blanket party is when you throw a blanket over a person then beat the living shit out of them. It's a measure taken against a member of the team that has acted against the best interests of the team. A goldbrick that is making things more difficult for others and has not responded to peer pressure could be a candidate for a blanket party. A troop that refuses to bathe runs the risk too.