Steven Green: What the Military Gets When They Scrape the Bottom of the Barrel for Volunteer Recruits?

Scary story about the soldier indicted for the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl (whom American Press kept calling a woman) and the murder of her and her family. Amazing how the military seems willing to cooperate in telling how deranged this young boy from Midland, Texas is now, yet they apparently did nothing to screen him before they sent him to Iraq.

Do you wonder how many more Steven Greens are over there, right now?

From Newsweek:

Even before he went to Iraq, Steven Green scared people. Growing up in oil-rich Midland, Texas, a small community full of pumping jacks, pickup trucks and fast-food restaurants, Green was known as a petulant loner and a hard-drinking druggie. Mostly what people remember is his seething, seemingly random rage. In high school, Green would jump on other kids for offenses like wearing a green shirt, or using a white cigarette lighter—anything he'd arbitrarily claim to hate. His best friend, Mike, recalls remarking to Green once that he wanted to punch another kid standing nearby. "I'll do it!" Green said, and ran over and socked the boy...

He bragged about being a part of the world's most powerful military, and he was excited to get to Iraq. "He wanted to be a hero," says Hugh Bailey, 54, a Vietnam-veteran Marine who befriended Green. When he enlisted in February 2005, Green exultantly told Mike and others, like the mother of one of his friends, Alma Thomas: "I'm gonna go over there and kill 'em all."