"Something happened to him over there."

[NNN0LHI]

GI Back From Iraq Charged in Wife's Death

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040422/APA/404220738&cachetime=5

<snip>"He hasn't been the same since he got back from Iraq," the brother, Joshua Pitts, said in a telephone interview from Ohio. "Something happened to him over there."

James Pitts apparently went to a bowling alley on the Army base, where he "called a third party and made a statement about the homicide," Troyer said.

That person told Army officials and the soldier was taken into custody by military police. He was later turned over to Pierce County authorities.

After the soldier was in custody of military police, the sheriff's office was notified and deputies were dispatched to the couple's apartment, where they found the woman's body.


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[madfloridian]

1. Is that number 6 or 7?

Who have murdered their wives upon return home? I still have a summary somewhere.

[Killarney]

3. Really? Is there a link for this. I'd be interested to read it.

They, too, are casualties of Bush.

[liarliartieonfire]

6. The murder occured in Lakewood, WA

Seattle news staions are carrying this now since he was stationed out of Ft Lewis, WA

[Ganja Ninja]

2. I've said it before what Bush and Rummy are doing to these guys...

amounts to about the same thing as what a dog owner does when he wants a mean dog. You abuse them, tease them, scare them, and beat them and you wind up with a vicious animal.

[liarliartieonfire]

4. Just saw that on KIRO 7 Moring News, Seattle.

The soldier's father said that "she was like a daughter to him",
"...we have G W Bush to thank for this."
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George doesn't care WHO or HOW MANY lives are lost. He is driven to complete the mission to secure Iraqi Oil Fields.

"...we're fightin terrerists...the Iraqi people are finally free"

[Safi]

5. Lariam - Anti-malaria drug cited in Illinois murder

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030221-111929-7532r

Anti-malaria drug cited in Illinois murder

CHARLESTON, Ill., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The lawyer for a former Marine convicted of murder will tell an Illinois jury next week that an anti-malaria drug associated with psychotic behavior and aggression triggered the killing, and he should be spared the death penalty.

The case marks the first time that side effects of the drug, called Lariam, have been raised in front of a U.S. jury in a criminal case. Some believe the drug could have played a role in a string of killings by Fort Bragg soldiers last summer, though the Army calls that unlikely

[madfloridian]

7. Here is an ABC article on 4 wives murdered on return from Afghanistan.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/fortbragg020729.html

SNIP..."F O R T B R A G G, N.C., July 29 — The 50,000 soldiers at Fort Bragg and their families want to believe the killings are an awful coincidence: four soldiers who lost their cool in one six week period...."

SNIP.."The four victims are all military wives. Teresa Nieves. Marilyn Griffin. Jennifer Wright. Andrea Floyd. Investigators say their soldier husbands murdered them all. Two of the soldiers also killed themselves.
What now greatly concerns the Army is that three of the men were part of an elite force of fighters who had recently returned from the war in Afghanistan.

Retired Col. David Hackworth, a veteran of three wars, believes the men brought the fighting home......"

[Solly Mack]

8. Uh, what support for families of returning soldiers?

Fort Lewis claims it offers counseling for the families...and Fort Lewis just may..however, it's not widespread.


My husband has been home from Iraq since April 5th. He went to multiple one day classes that included a 2 hour class on "not killing your family" (the class was described exactly in those terms). These classes took place in Kuwait..BEFORE the soldier returned and without the soliders family involved.

The families were offered nada from the military, aside from a reminder that the chaplans are always there for you (HA! just try getting an appointment with one. I hear spouses complain about it all the time) Absolutely nothing has been offered for those spouses/families of returning soldiers. Nothing geared specifically for those facing post-war redeployment.

We (our company) had a domestic the first weekened our soldiers returned and the company is up to 25 divorces in a company that had about 70 married soldiers.

Fortunately, my husband and I kept the lines of communication open throughout his deployment and we aren't afraid to discuss any possibility...it helps also that we vote democratic and have never bought the bullshit the invasion was built around. It really does seem that those who knew Bush was FOS and a slimeball are doing better than those who bought the whole "for our freedoms" crock of caca. They aren't really questioning it all until they get home...and then it hits them hard.

[zbdent]

9. Gee, you think that having to shoot kids that run toward you

might have had a detrimental effect on his psyche?

I have no evidence that he did anything like that, but it's possible.