{"id":36043,"date":"2013-06-05T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36043"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:28:55","slug":"bales-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36043","title":{"rendered":"Bales pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to the Associated Press<\/a> which reports that Robert Bales pleaded guilty today in a Joint Base Lewis McChord court room to those grisly murders in Panjwai, Kandahar, Afghanistan on March 11, 2012;<\/p>\n

To avoid the death penalty, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder at the hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle. He then read from a statement in a clear and steady voice, describing his actions for each killing in the same terms.<\/p>\n

Bales, 39, said he left the remote base where he was posted in southern Afghanistan and went to the nearby villages of mud-walled compounds. Once inside, Bales said he “formed the intent” of killing the victims, then shot each one.<\/p>\n

“This act was without legal justification, sir,” Bales told the judge. Bales sat at a defense table, his handles folded in front of him.<\/p>\n

At one point the judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, asked Bales why he committed the March 2012 killings at two villages near the remote base in southern Afghanistan where he was posted.<\/p>\n

Bales responded: “Sir, as far as why \u2014 I’ve ask that question a million times since then. There’s not a good reason in this world for why I did the horrible things I did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, according to the article, the Afghans are pretty upset that he won’t be sentenced to death, although it’s still up to the judge whether he’ll accept the plea or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to the Associated Press which reports that Robert Bales pleaded guilty … Bales pleads guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}