Just keep up the mantra: 'We are the good guys; we are the good guys...'ad infinitum

[Peter Lemkin]

I notice that they are pushing the lone nut theory here too. There was more than one soldier doing this massacre.

Yes, all the witnesses who survived said there were MULTIPLE gunmen, and WE are TOLD there was one emotionally troubled soldier [who just happened to come from the same unit that did some similar killings some months back!].....typical planned exterminations - perhaps not on the top levels, but at some level above the persons involved - and then covered up by those planners and their superiors [as America would never do such a thing.....remember Mai Lai?]

To repeat my question: When does this leave the realm of soldiers blowing off steam, or some other more understandable motive, and enter the realm of deep politics? Right now: just asking, but the tin foil hat is on.

Lauren, With all due respect to you, it would have been horrible and wrong to the nth degree had some one [or even a group] of soldiers vented their anger [justified or not - I'd say NOT!] at some fighters - these were all women and children killed execution style with a bullet to the forehead and over a period of many hours in distant locations. No sudden emotional 'explosion' this! Also, the fact they come from the same unit that was labeled the 'kill squad' after doing something very similar rustles the deep political fibers of my being. Certainly the officials will lie and lie and spin....but I think we'll learn a lot more in the coming days. It will ONLY get WORSE, the more we know - BUT the FULL story will always be denied us [the hallmark of Deep Political Actions]. I'd stake my DP rep on that! And don't expect any involved to face the death sentence or even more than a year in a country club prison [if even that much 'punishment'] One thing is for sure - some Afghans will take revenge and kill untold number of Americans, NATO soldiers and Afghan collaborators with the invaders. It will be a bloodbath - and this may have been the idea behind the event. I see it as a mini 'Faludja' - of which there have been all too many. I also suspect that the 'Christian Crusader Soldiers' subgroup may well have been involved - just my hunch. It is all bad and I do NOT buy for a minute the 'lone' nor 'nut/disturbed' line we are being fed!