At first I thought this guy was one of the thousands who entered the service under Bush's severely lax enlistment standards. Remember my post on the muche about that? Gang members and all that?
But it's obvious now he is a victim of PTSD; which in no way excuses his crime. And in no way dismisses the fact that we should have never been in Afghanistan (or Iraq) in the first place.
He may be a victim of PTSD, but my original
hunch was right.
Thanks, Dubya!The U.S. soldier who now claims to have no memory of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians is a “smooth talker” who defrauded an elderly Ohio couple out of their savings, records revealed Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales enlisted in the Army shortly after federal financial regulators found he “engaged in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, churning, unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments,” according to a report on Bales filed in 2003.
Bales, who was then a stockbroker in Columbus, Ohio, and his partners, were ordered to pay Gary Liebschner and his wife $1,274,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.
So far, he hasn’t paid a dime, according to Liebschner.
“He robbed me of my life savings,” Liebschner told ABC News. “We didn't know where he was. We heard the Bahamas, and all kinds of places.”
