More 'Kill Team coverage,' this time from MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show. Ratigan's guests, an ex-soldier and a above civic aegis advisor, acknowledge to Rolling Stone's report that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians, burst their corpses, kept physique locations for trophies, and got themselves photographed -- animated -- with their "kills."
Get the abounding adventure -- including video footage and war abomination images the Pentagon approved to abolish -- here.
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Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, Center for Advanced Studies:
Well, about there's annihilation I can say about that. I can acquaint you that there is a bright abortion of both training and standards. [Cpl. Jeremy] Morlock should accept never been in the Army. This demonstrates to me how abundant our standards ... I started off as a recruiter if I was a aboriginal enlisted guy, and we didn't yield anyone who even had a adumbration of a bent record. He had all sorts of violations, including disturbing his wife. I watched these videos. I was sickened by them. You don't annihilate humans arbitrarily. If you anticipate they're the bad guy, you abduction them and try to get all the intel out of them you can. This is something I see is a huge botheration on the battlefield appropriate now.
Brett McGurk, above Civic Aegis Council staffer:
Gen. Petraeus says these things are [not] biodegradable. They don't go way and appulse aggregate we're aggravating to do. This is just wanton murder. That's why one of the guys on balloon traveling to prison.... It's not something you can put in context. but you accept to accumulate in apperception what the Taliban is accomplishing every day.
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