The signs of a failing occupation. We saw this in Vietnam.
"US soldier held in slaying of 2 GIs in Iraq" by Associated Press | September 29, 2010
BAGHDAD — An American serviceman is being held in Iraq in connection with the fatal shootings of two soldiers and the wounding of another following an apparent argument, the US military said yesterday.
A statement by US forces said Specialist Neftaly Platero was in custody during the investigation into last week’s slayings in Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Colonel Barry Johnson, a US military spokesman, said a “verbal altercation’’ broke out among four soldiers last Thursday and the suspect “allegedly took his weapon and began shooting the other soldiers.’’
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In an unrelated incident, the Pentagon said another US soldier died last Friday in an accident in Kuwait. A statement said Army Specialist Marc C. Whisenant, 23, of Holly Hill, Fla., died in a military vehicle roll-over. It offered no details, including whether the soldier was inside the vehicle....
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