Suspect soldiers: Did crimes in U.S. foretell violence in Iraq?

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Suspect soldiers: Did crimes in U.S. foretell violence in Iraq?

By Russell Carollo | Sacramento Bee


Before Army Sgt. 1st Class Randal Ruby was accused in Iraq of beating prisoners and of conspiring to plant rifles on dead civilians, he amassed a 10-year criminal record in Colordao and Washington state for assaulting his wife and in Maine for a drunken high-speed police chase, for which he remains wanted.

Before Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes stabbed an Iraqi private to death, angering the soldier’s unit of coalition soldiers, he was hospitalized after threatening suicide in high school, accused of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing, and, in the months leading up to deployment, twice linked to drug use.

Before Army Spc. Shane Carl Gonyon was convicted of stealing a pistol at Abu Ghraib prison, he was convicted twice on felony charges and arrested four times, once for allegedly giving a 13-year-old girl marijuana in exchange for oral sex. He enlisted weeks after his release from a federal prison in Oregon.

A yearlong examination of military and civilian records by The Sacramento Bee involving hundreds of troops who entered the services since the Iraq war began identified 120 cases of people whose backgrounds should have raised the suspicions of military recruiters, including felony convitions and serious drug, alcohol or mental health problems.

Of those, 70 later were involved in controversial or criminal incidents in Iraq.

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[Bobbieo]

1. The answer is "Yes"!!! US crimes foretell violence in any war zone.

These men have no GD business being in the military. This is just one example as to how far the Bush Administration will go to stay in Iraq.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Like, wotdafuk ya THINK yer gonna get

when you adjust your standards topermit felons to enter? At least when the French did this kinda thing in the Foreign Legion, which consisted of the moral dregs of Europe,they set up an thoroughly brutal and unforgiving system of discipline to maintain tight control over their army of deranged criminals.