Good election news for Republicans: accused Army pedophile/murderer trial delayed to 2009

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gS9-ssFGmse6OtSA4HV6De8XN6bQD8TKDHK80

They were convicted one after another — four U.S. soldiers who helped gang rape and kill a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in one of the war's worst atrocities.

In exchange for leniency, each struck deals to testify against a fifth man, a troubled former Army private who allegedly killed the family and planted the idea of raping the girl.

But the case against Steven D. Green has dragged slowly forward in the 18 months since the allegations surfaced. It's a pace, military legal experts note, that bears stark contrast to swift prosecutions of nearly every other crime to come from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Green, 22, is accused of being a central figure in slaying the family in Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad. He was charged in federal court because he was discharged from the Army for anti-social personality disorder before being accused of the crimes.

On Tuesday, his trial was set for April 13, 2009, in Paducah, Ky.

The volume on this story is being kept so low, it didn't even find its way into LBN.

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1. The amazing thing is that someone with anti-social personality disorder was even let into the army..

I mean, come on now. The layman term for anti-social personality disorder is either "sociopath" or "psychopath," depending on which layman you talk to. And the Army actually gave one of these conscience-free wackos a gun and stuck them in a country with little to no law? How stupid can you be?

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2. Well, he was social enough to get four other soldiers to go along with him

And since the military already gave him a waiver for pending legal offenses, what's a little personality problem?

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3. Of course he was. A lot of sociopaths are quite charismatic. n/t

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6. True, but at least Charlie Manson had acid to help in the brainwashing

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7. Touche.

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4. This is EXACTLY the kind of person they want in the military. A cold-

blooded killer with no conscience that will "follow orders" without question.

Why the surprise?

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5. Actually, it's exactly not the kind of person...

because a sociopath will only follow orders if it's to his/her benefit to do so. In reality, the military would prefer to have people with, you know, a brain that isn't abnormal.