The Amazing Power of Alcohol
Last week we learned that alcohol can transform a saint into a Nazi, causing him to suddenly embrace hateful shit that he’s never ever believed in his entire life, ever. Mel actually loves Jewish people, you see. He would never dream of blaming them for all the wars in the world. Why, he doesn’t have a drop of anti-Semitic blood in his whole body! It’s just that crazy vodka, working its voodoo mind-control magic.
Now we learn that alcohol can transform good soldiers into sadistic rapist-murderers:
The attack followed a session of whiskey drinking and card-playing during which five soldiers plotted the March 12 assault, criminal investigator Benjamin Bierce said.
The whiskey is very important, you see. Without the whiskey these guys were just good, brave, upstanding American soldiers. They would never dream of raping a girl. They totally respect women. It would never in a million years occur to them to treat a female as if her body were some sort of battlefield trophy. Heck, they’re probably feminists. And of course they love the Iraqi people, wishing only to bring the gifts of democracy and peace to that ancient land.
But with the whiskey — voila! Look what they did:
At some point, they decided to go to the house of Abeer, whom they had seen passing their checkpoint.
Barker said the soldiers found the girl and her father outside their home. Spielman grabbed the girl while Green seized her father and took them into the house, Barker’s statement said, and Cortez and Barker followed them inside.
Green led the father, mother and younger sister into the bedroom and closed the door, while the teenage girl remained in the living room with the others, Barker’s statement said.
Cortez pushed the girl to the floor, lifted her dress and tore off her underwear while she struggled, Bierce said, citing Barker’s statement. Cortez appeared to rape her, then Barker tried to rape the girl, according to the statement.
Suddenly, the group heard gunshots, and Green came out of the bedroom holding an AK-47 rifle and declared: ‘”They’re all dead. I just killed them,”‘ according to the statement.
Green then raped the girl while Cortez held her down, Barker’s statement said. Green picked up the AK-47 and shot the girl once, paused, then shot her several more times, Bierce said, quoting Barker’s statement.
Barker said he poured fuel from a kerosene lamp on the girl’s body but did not say who set it on fire. The soldier’s statement did not say whether Howard or Spielman participated in the rape, Bierce said.
Another investigator, Gary Griesmyer, quoted Cortez as telling him that the teenage girl was weeping and speaking in Arabic and that Barker told her to “shut up.”
Also Monday, another soldier, Pfc. Justin Watt, testified that Howard told him before the incident that Green, Cortez and Barker had planned to rape a girl, and Howard was to be the lookout.
That alcohol’s some amazing shit.
6 Responses to “The Amazing Power of Alcohol”
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manxome says:
Damn, and I thought it was the card playing that made them do it.
August 7th, 2006 at 9:55 pm EST -
Z says:
No, it’s the ability of men like this to use any fucking excuse in the book in order to try and absolve themselves of any sort of human responsibility that is truly amazing.
The whole thing makes me sick.
I can only imagine what that poor girl and her family went through that day. :(
Take care,
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will says:
It really is amazing how people excuse their actions by claiming to be under the influence of alcohol.
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PamAlonia McCrary says:
alcohol created the sacred scriptures.
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sarah says:
it would be absolutely insane and disgusting if these pigs get off easy because they had a few shots of vodka. i’ve gotten drunk more than enough times, and the craziest shit i ever did involved public display of extreme affection or dancing on a table. not fucking raping & killing!
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Promenea says:
I’d like to see them tried for treason as well as murder and rape because actions like that totally run counter to the efforts to win the “hearts and minds” of the Iraqi citizens. That way if they didn’t get the death penalty for murder, at least there would be a good chance that they’d get it for treason.
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