The AP says the attack also involved small arms fire.

http://www.glennfrazier.com/articles/2003/03/22/184417.php

I’m less concerned about the protestor than the perpetrator. My last day on active duty was almost 40 years ago but if memory serves, the military justice system is capable of dealing with this case. I trust the military can still execute people.

This “soldier” should be given a court martial and if found guilty, taken away and shot. This BS cannot be tolerated in wartime.

Beautiful example of how bloggers can get it right, and the journal form gives it a timestamp. Chris made the parallel with John M even before he thought the present perpetrator could be a similar type!

5th column.

Some liberal is going to start blabing that this is what happens when you exploit poor minorities by sending them to war.

Of course this idiot volunteered to be a saboteur.

I’m not sure we could convict the protesters who urge troops to shoot their officers on sedition charges — but I sure wouldn’t mind seeing it tried.

As for the scum who did this, execution for murder is the only appropriate penalty.

Let these guys out in the open, it lets us know the entire agenda. It won’t help the “anti-war” movement. And it is true many of these people actually cheer American losses. They are traitors, let’s face it.

It’s only a matter of time before
the “protestors” in this country
start doing similar things. I am
starting to think that “peaceniks” aren’t really about peace, but about agenda.

Give him a moped and let him go join his buddies in Baghdad. We’ll tend to him in a few days.

One thing I found interesting on Saturday night was that after the initial report identified the perpetrator as a Muslim, there was silence about his religion until yesterday. Also on Saturday night they reported that two Kuwaiti translators were involved, something I didn’t hear about all day yesterday. One of the CBS military experts noted that in the Vietnam War there were several incidents of soldiers attacking fellow soldiers with grenades. The expert said that it was surprising that it happened in a well motivated all volunteer army. The he acknowledged that in a group of several thousand people there’s likely to be one or two bad apples.

This guy obviously deserves the death penalty once (and if) found guilty. The fact that he is a Muslim convert only adds fuel to the argument that there is something fundamentally wrong with Islam or that we really should treat current events as a war of the West against the East. No matter how many times someone says that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Finally, the argument that this soldier was somehow belittled, abused, or coerced into service as a minority is groundless since he is a Seargeant in an Engineering batallion (if I recall correctly) - this is not some buck private enlisted against his will and forced to go to the front lines.