Soldier describes genesis of rape plan

[oberliner]

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A soldier who pleaded guilty to conspiring to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and kill her family described how he was approached by a fellow soldier with the plan to carry out the attack.

Spc. James P. Barker, one of four U.S. soldiers accused in the March 12 rape and killings, pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify against the others. He will avoid the death penalty, said his attorney, David Sheldon.

Barker told military judge Lt. Col. Richard Anderson that 21-year-old former Army private Steve Green approached him with a plan to attack the family as they drank whiskey purchased from Iraqi soldiers.

"He brought it up to me and asked me what I thought about it," Barker said. "By the time we started changing clothes, it was more or less a nonverbal agreement that we were going to go along with what we were discussing."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_re_us/iraq_rape_slaying

[XanaDUer]

1. The death penalty was made for cases like this.

Beyond disgusting.

[wicket]

2. Sick, sick, sick

At one point, the judge asked Barker why he had decided with the other soldiers to commit the rape and murders.

"I hated Iraqis, your honor," Barker said. "They can smile at you, then shoot you in your face without even thinking about it."

[magellan]

3. Gee, I can't imagine feeling that way

...about a foreign military that had been occupying my country, oftentimes brutally and without seeming end, for over three years.

:sarcasm: