{"id":5706,"date":"2009-05-22T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2009-05-22T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T01:17:25","slug":"war-criminal-or-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/war-criminal-or-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"War Criminal or Hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. soldier Steven Dale Green\u00c2\u00a0was just sentenced <\/a>to life in prison\u00c2\u00a0for his war crimes while “serving” in Iraq. It seems that Pfc. Green and three of his soldier friends went to the home of a 14-year-old\u00c2\u00a0Iraqi girl, killed her family, gang raped her, shot her in the face, and then set her body on fire.<\/p>\n

This is absolutely horrible, and I don’t excuse it in any way. I think he should get the death penalty, as do many in Iraq. However, it should be said that\u00c2\u00a0if he had dropped a bomb from\u00c2\u00a0the stratosphere or launched a missile from afar he would be lauded as a hero. Why is it that, to many Americans, killing from five feet is viewed as an atrocity, but from five thousand feet it is considered to be a heroic act?<\/p>\n

Yes, but what about the rape? Well, if torture is okay, then why should anyone have a problem with raping female Iraqis? Aren’t all Muslims terrorists? Hey, if it saves one American life then it must be okay. Right? That, unfortunately, is the attitude of many “conservative” Americans, including too many Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. soldier Steven Dale Green\u00c2\u00a0was just sentenced to life in prison\u00c2\u00a0for his war crimes while “serving” in Iraq. It seems that Pfc. Green and three of his soldier friends went to the home of a 14-year-old\u00c2\u00a0Iraqi girl, killed her family, gang raped her, shot her in the face, and then set her body on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}