By FITSNews || Forget Sesame Street … an American soldier actually waterboarded his four-year-old daughter in Tacoma, Washington recently when the little girl failed to recite the alphabet.
Joshua Tabor, 27, admitted he specifically chose the controversial CIA interrogation technique because his daughter is “afraid of water.”
From the Daily Mail (UK):
Tabor, a soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his neighbourhood wearing a Kevlar military helmet and threatening to break windows.
Police discovered the alleged waterboarding when they went to his home in the Tacoma suburb of Yelm and spoke to his girlfriend.
She told them about the alleged torture and the terrified girl was found hiding in a closet, with bruising on her back and scratch marks on her neck and throat.
Asked how she got the bruises, the girl is said to have replied: ‘Daddy did it.’
John Mayer, incidentally, disapproves …
By Another Opinion February 10, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Perhaps the experimental drugs they give our soldiers were at play? Or is it true what a friend of mine, who is a Vietnam Veteran, told me, that our government is more interested in making monsters of men than good soldiers?
By Liberty For Me February 10, 2010 at 1:30 pm
‘Another Opinion’ I would say they want drones to wave a flag and do whatever they are told…questioning not the constitutionality of their action.A point aparent in the posts on this site…
Make up any veiled threat and all the crazys want to invade any given country.Somehow people who cant afford shoes prove to be 200 billion dollar problem….
By Liberty For Me February 10, 2010 at 1:34 pm
This person has no business in society.Not sure if he craked from pressure and combat..or he just cracked in genral.Doesnt really matter.Lock him up quick
By SnakeMD February 10, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Combat stress is a serious issue. It can happen to anyone. Soldiers are trained to kill and that is a terrible thing to live with if you have experienced it. Being an observer or a participant can be equally damaging. If you had problems going in (and a lot have) you don’t get tougher. You might think you are bullet-proof, but time can take its toll. We as a country need to help our veterans. Please don’t assume someone is a kook just because of their actions. We need to get them off the street and provide them the best help we can. IMHO
By Ella Phant February 10, 2010 at 7:20 pm
There’s a special place in Hell…
By WorkingTommyC February 11, 2010 at 8:46 am
“Post-traumatic stress disorder,” “shell shock,” “combat fatigue,” whatever you want to call it is actually, in a very real sense, the result of brain damage.
Stress, all by itself, can burn the brain out to some extent and leave permanent problems. That’s yet another REALLY GOOD moral reason to not have extended wars for the benefit of the military industrial complex. Our soldiers deserve more respect than that by far. We have, through the “surges” (Why are those necessary if there’s not a tendency to go to a “slow boil” Vietnam type engagement when no one is looking?) put a higher percentage of soldiers through more and longer tours than veterans of WWII were subjected to.
If there is a need for it, properly, formally, declare the war with each member of Congress going on the record in a clear “yea” or “nay,” go in, do the job of destroying the enemy’s military, topple their government, capture or kill as many war criminals as we can, and get out. Hit them hard and without remorse and then leave them there to ROT! We have no moral obligation to “rebuild” ANY country (as if you can rebuild some of those stone-age hell holes).
Punitive expeditions are the ticket in such cases and would reduce our casualties dramatically and reduce the number of deaths by thousands. We would engender respect for our strength and decisiveness instead of the infinitely building resentment at our perpetual occupations. I would hope that those who are reading these words would be willing–if the situation were reversed and WE were being occupied–to fight tooth and nail to destroy and eject the enemy occupiers of our own country.
In comparison to the habitual eternal occupation by US forces, it is much, much cheaper in terms of dollars and lives to re-invade and re-defeat a country many times that has not learned its lessons from earlier aggressive acts against us.
In addition to being a simple moral principle, there is also an economic reality involved. We cannot morally–nor, as we now realize, financially–be the “policemen of the world” as we currently act as. If we acknowledge, at the most fundamental level, the rights of other sovereign nations as we demand our own rights to be recognized by them, we will adopt more morally (and, as a side-benefit, fiscally responsible) foreign and military policies. And, if you follow the obvious money trail, we should not allow the use our soldiers as mercenaries for ensuring politicians and government contractors stay rich at taxpayer expense.
By Milton February 13, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I guess we can ask, did the military let this “mental deficient” into their ranks or did they make this normal guy in this “mental deficient”. Even Ronald Reagan said that water boarding was torture, but I guess Cheney and his gay daughter are the brain trust on this lie that has been perpetuated onto the American people and signed off by the GOP.