Gallagher shot a little girl in stomach -This is no hero-this is not even a man-this is a monster

[kpete]

Edward Gallagher was accused of shooting civilians, killing a teenage Isis captive and threatening to kill any colleagues who reported him, but was acquitted at a court martial.

However, he was demoted after being convicted on one charge, of bringing discredit on the armed forces after posing for a picture with the body of the dead teenager.


MORE:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-edward-gallagher-navy-seal-war-crimes-twitter-a9215796.html

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. As the orange buffoon would say, this is an animal...

no, that is not correct...he is sub-human. Pure scum. I care more for amoeba than I do this savage.

[panader0]

2. Trump mistakenly believes that his support of Gallagher will

bring him support from the troops. I think it will go the other way.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I've seen a mix.

For the most part, they seem to think he's a criminal, but there's a very vocal base that seems to revel in this kind of behavior.

[NCLefty]

57. It may be why they joined up.

[dewsgirl]

3. On Morning Joe they said, he pose with the teenager's head.😳

[Maraya1969]

4. Really? I bet if someone leaked that support for this man's ouster would grow

I'm not sure it is wise though.

[dewsgirl]

5. Clair McCaskill said it, I believe.

[dewsgirl]

6. Lots of talk on Twitter about this.

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[PatSeg]

18. Oh my word

This is so much worse than I'd realized. Guess Gallagher is the kind of guy Trump admires. How disgusting.

[dewsgirl]

21. Appaling isn't it.

[PatSeg]

25. How did he not get convicted of murder

or war crimes?

[California_Republic]

32. I agree what's with the "acquitted"

[catchnrelease]

33. The boy didn't die right away

Another soldier that was there suffocated him in what he said was a mercy killing. And this soldier testified at Gallaghers trial that he himself had killed the boy. (I think this was the story, or something close to it)

I can't imagine how the things that Gallagher did were not enough to convict him.

[dewsgirl]

36. Him posing with the boy's head, should be at the very least

some type of war crime.

[PatSeg]

39. This couldn't be much uglier

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If all of this is true, he barely got a slap on the wrist. How many more war criminals are out there that the military let off so easily.

[dewsgirl]

58. Scary isn't it.

[DENVERPOPS]

45. Maybe the Hague

Maybe the Hague will have something to say about it: "International War Crimes" comes to mind............I don't know if they can try someone in absentia? I think it is called..........

Someone told me the U.N. and the Hague are working overtime trying to finish preparing their case against Asad? of Syria on the same charges for dropping chemical weapons on his own people many times over the past several years........It was the easiest method to get rid of his opposition.....Of course he didn't manufacture the weapons and was supplied with them from a certain country......

[PatSeg]

53. Perhaps

But the U.S. usually gets a pass on this kind of stuff. Look at all the crap that took place during the Bush years.

[DENVERPOPS]

60. one of my british friends

told me that Cheney & Rumsfeld can never set foot in any country in most of Europe. They would be arrested and transported directly to the Hague to be put on trial for International War Crimes...........

[PatSeg]

62. That's understandable

That entire administration (except for Libby) got a pass, but because Trump is so horrible, people think maybe Bush wasn't so bad. Unfortunately a lot of memories tend to fade. However, he WAS every bit as bad as we thought he was and hundreds of thousands of people died because of his reckless cowboy policies. I never thought I'd see a president who was worse.

[DENVERPOPS]

63. Amen to that

Think no farther (further?) than Abu Grab (sp?), all the torture and Gitmo and probably also include a ton of shit we don't even know about under the cloak of "Top Secret Security Information".

Depleted Uranium bullets and Tank artillery shells, Willie Pete (White Phosphorous) and on and on and on and on

[PatSeg]

65. Oh, I'm sure there is plenty

we don't know about. There was a whole lot going on behind the scenes back then.

[Alithea]

35. He's hideous and so is the pardon. Think about how unsafe this will make any soldiers

that are captured in war. To the eyes of the world and any future adversaries, the message is that, not only do US troops commit war crimes, not only are they not prosecuted and convicted for it, but the f***ng President comes out and PARDONS them; the worst of them. A pardon in the case of an atrocity like this is so bizarre, so extreme, that it will be seen as much more than a pardon; it will be seen as Presidential praise and endorsement. To the eyes of the world, who are certainly watching reports of this, this will be seen as the definition of what it means to be a US solider today.

Not only is it a gross dishonor to the decent men and women who have worn the uniform, but the next time some poor soldier gets captured, there will be no Geneva Convention niceties and we will be looking on with horror as something like this is done to him in revenge. And the whole world sinks deeper and deeper into a vicious cycle of inhumanity, into the abyss from which it took the human race so many painful lessons, so many years, so much careful work and diplomacy to climb out of.

This is what it looks like when norms collapse. It is beyond dispiriting.

[dewsgirl]

37. My son is being deployed to Qatar on Jan.1, the ramifications

of this and the betrayal of the Kurds are beyond terrifying.

[Alithea]

40. I'm sorry if my post added to your worries.

I can only imagine how worried you must be and I empathize. Your son will be fine. Sending you good thoughts.

[dewsgirl]

41. Thank you. Oh no, I completely agree with you.

[DENVERPOPS]

61. Sounds alot

like exactly what Putin or any of Trump's other tyrant heroes would do........

[gopiscrap]

7. what a pos

no wonder trump is going to bat for him....they are both of the same cloth

[Jewls2]

8. Does anyone know how or why he was acquitted?

[Maraya1969]

9. I think I read that they didn't have much evidence besides witness testimony

[Jewls2]

11. Thanks.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. The medic changed his story

on the stand, iirc. He initially told prosecutor's the stab wound Gallagher inflected killed the ISIS fighter, but on thes stand, he said it wasn't a mortal wound. It threw the prosecution's whole case off track.

In any event, Gallagher will be allowed to retire and keep his "Seal pin" although it's a pyrrhic victory as the medal has no value when associated with him.

[Jewls2]

13. Thanks. And the nation knows. There will be those that pat him on the back for murdering a little

girls, or posing for the camera with a teen he murdered. And there will be many that give him the side eye in disgust. His to live with. I would be concerned if I was the wife. His ego is pumped, his violence validated and sealed by the President. She had better know her place.

[maxrandb]

16. Since they're Donnie Shit for Brains supporters

I'm sure she already knows her place.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. We should

We should continuously publish his picture everywhere so everyone recognizes him no matter where he goes.......

[mr_lebowski]

29. For some reason I recall the medic (who had immunity) saying he (the medic) actually killed the kid

outta mercy, cause he was too far gone to save from wounds he had rec'd prior to arrival.

Implication was, he'd delivered the knife blow, not the shitbird.

Which I frankly find hard to believe, myself.

Could be remembering wrong though.

[DeminPennswoods]

30. Yes, I recall that, too,

now that you mentioned it. The medic "confessing" on the stand is what threw everyone for a loop.

[ffr]

12. tRump is sewing confusion and chaos throughout the military.

Nobody knows which side is up. Gallagher is a loose cannon, a person who is probably struggling with his own mental demons. He is not a role model.

[roody]

31. Sowing

[yaesu]

15. tRump loves monsters because he loves himself. nt

[Nitram]

17. In reality, the narcissist hates himself. That's why he creates a world where he is perfect, and

surrounds himself with people who will bolster his claim to perfection.

[dewsgirl]

23. With all the religous wackadoos surrounding Trump, it looks

like he has hit the lottery in that department.

[djacq]

19. This is NOT Okay.

24 years in the Air Force, I've learned;
Law of Armed Conflict
Code of Conduct
UCMJ
Good Order and Discipline

Gallagher's unit reported his dishonorable behavior. This is setting a bad precedent that you can commit war crimes as long as you have the President personally backing you.

[KT2000]

27. That is it -

precedents are being destroyed all over. We become untethered to our society when that happens.

[sandensea]

20. The GOPee will probably nominate him in 2024.

Their kind of man.

[lunatica]

22. Trump loves Putin and Kim Jong-un and

Duterte, and Erdogan. He admires sadistic murderous men.

He probably identifies with them and thinks that by protecting them he can become like them and never be held accountable. It really all still boils down to being about him.

I’m sure he’s already picked out the perfect job for Gallagher when he becomes Dictator Trump. Maybe the CEO of a concentration camp with people who stand behind him in his rallies as Gallagher’s staff.

[pwb]

24. When I was in the Military we were glad to see people like E-7 Gallagher convicted .

The good men and women of the Navy should not be forced to be around this disgraced ex seal Murderer.

[JudyM]

38. It's also sending a message about whistleblowing... this could be part of what it's about for tRump.

[SWBTATTReg]

26. Isn't this fitting? Another monster like rump helping another monster. Nice, eh? Disgusting, ...

but we all know that already.

[FM123]

28. I can barely wrap my head around this. Words like sick or evil barely scratch the surface...

[Demovictory9]

42. me either

[DENVERPOPS]

47. I seriously believed

I seriously believed that no one could ever match or exceed Dick Cheney and his side kick Rumsfeld for cruelty and evil.

I guess I was wrong............

[Tiggeroshii]

34. If you "shoot" somebody without basis in a training exercise, you can be discharged

from the military entirely for committing war crimes in a training environment. The rationale is: If you are willing to do it in training, who says you wont do it in real life?

Gallagher was court martialed and the only thing saving his ass from life in prison or death is that he was a Trump supporting vile piece of shit.

[IronLionZion]

44. Enough of our military and veterans are better than this

so it should backfire badly. Trump needs to lose support from enough of them to make a difference.

[DENVERPOPS]

48. I don't know

there are a huge amount of Trump lovers in the military

[IronLionZion]

49. I'm hoping more of them turn against him

The way my cousin, who is active duty Navy, describes it is mostly enlisted are supporting Trump while most officers are against. It's tied to education level with many graduates of service academies are against.

[Jewls2]

50. We thought that with our cops too, and look. It has not happened.

[AZ8theist]

51. Well, on the plus side, when the military pulls it's collective head out of it's ass...

And they complete a military coup of the US and "eliminate" the clearest DANGER to the US, both foreign AND DOMESTIC.....
I will stand and applaud them.

If I have to live under a dictatorship, I would rather it be lead by our military leaders than a fucking imbecilic, traitorous, incompetent douche bag moron.

[Hoyt]

54. Thanks for the reality on this POS. That's why he joined.

[C Moon]

55. Gallagher must be a Putin boy.

[Stargazer09]

56. Every time I see that criminal

I want to vomit. What a disgusting person.

The fact that 45 likes him so much is not surprising.

Evil. Truly evil.

[democrank]

59. Kick

[oasis]

64. Trump wants this murderer to accompany him on the 2020 campaign.

Sick.