• NewDark@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I see he was deployed at those times (not that he participated necessarily), don’t see anything about Abu Graib, and yes obviously he joined Blackwater. That doesn’t mean those things aren’t true obviously.

    The woman did provide proof.

    I just want to know what’s real and not the worst possible made up scenario.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      23 hours ago

      I see he was deployed at those times

      Which means that he was a very direct participant in the process that involved things like killing (as well as torturing, including by SA) children in Iraq. He signed up to do that multiple times, because of how much he loved the ‘experience’ (according to him).

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          21 hours ago

          https://archive.is/sROJZ

          Platner went to the United States Marine Corps School of Infantry and deployed to Iraq in 2005. “It was a relatively calm deployment for the first few months, mostly because the Battle of Fallujah just happened, and much of the insurgent activity in the area had been crushed in that fight,” he told me. Later, while he was on patrol at Abu Ghraib, there was an attack on the prison.