I saw this report on CBS news on Sunday night. It was very disturbing, for many different reasons. I am going to present some of the "facts" of the case, as stated by Mr. Welshofer, and my interpretation of those "facts". Mr. Welshofer is in the US military, but he does not deserve any title that was given to him, so I will not use them.
Mr. Welshofer says: "And you just tell yourself, you know what? This has got to stop. You have to protect these guys."
He's not talking about Iraqis here, he's talking about injured US soldiers. Of course, the US soldiers would not be injured if they WERE IN THE USA, would they?
The story goes on: "The way to protect them, according to the military, was by finding Saddam Hussein — who was then still at large — and by cracking the insurgency. One day, the key to the solution appeared on Welshofer’s doorstep: an Iraqi major general with close links to Saddam. His name was Abid Hamed Mowhoush. Welshofer says he thought Mowhoush might know where Saddam was hiding and also help him understand how the insurgency was organized and financed."
At this point in time, we all know that Saddam was not behind the insurgency at all. He's been in prison for over two years and the insurgency rages on. This story fails to mention why this Iraqi Major General showed up at Mr. Welshofer's door. The General was there because they had abducted his sons. He was turning himself in - to get his sons free. Keep in mind here that Mr. Welshofer wanted to get INFORMATION from the General.
Mr. Welshofer wasn't getting any information out of this General, so he started hitting him. "I put him on his knees and I used the facial slap," recalls Welshofer. (I think he is lying. I think he started right off with this type of physical abuse, and quickly moved into torture.)
The General still wasn't giving him any information. (I wonder if Welshofer is intelligent enough to ponder the idea that maybe, just maybe, the General did not know where Saddam was hiding. I doubt it.) So, according to the CBS program, Welshofer got "creative". That is an interesting choice of words for Welshofer's behavior: it is not every day that we call killing other people "creative".
So, he beats the crap out of the General, breaking his ribs among other things, and then stuffs him inside a sleeping bag, ties a cord around him, and sits on him. And proceeds to hold his hand over his mouth from time to time. Of course, the sleeping bag is not see-through, so maybe he covered his nose with his hands and/or the sleeping bag. Apparently, this possibility does not cross Welshofer's puny brain. He claims he didn't cover the General's nose.
In spite of broken ribs (established on autopsy), someone sitting on him, and someone putting his hand over his "mouth" - somehow the General keeps talking. (This is, of course, a pile of stinking lies.) But the General does not say what Welshofer wants to hear. Welshofer gives up, and removes the bag from the General, and has this to say:
"The general had a smile on his face. An honest-to-God grin on his face. So I’m thinking he’s messing with me. So, I grabbed a little bit of water and sprinkled it on the general’s face, because he was not responding to any questions, any type of conversation at all. I saw that the water pooled in his mouth, and it was at that point that I realized there was a problem here. The general’s dead," Welshofer recalls.
First off, if he "grabbed a little bit of water and sprinkled it" there is no way he would see that water "pooled in his mouth" - so he is flat-out lying here. He dumped a bucket of water on the General, and because it was a significant amount, it pooled in his mouth. Then Welshofer figured out the General is dead. Welshofer is again lying here or he is dumber than dirt. Here's a clue, Mr. Welshofer: living people breathe, which makes their chest move. You will see that in EVERY living person on the planet, I guarantee you.
Then the lying and stupid Mr. Welshofer claims he didn't think he killed the guy!
The second autopsy said the General died "asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression". This autopsy also says " “Findings included rib fractures, numerous contusions (bruises), some of which were due to impacts with a blunt object(s).” The first autopsy was a sham.
But here's the part that shows that Welshofer is truly incapable of intelligent thought and totally deficient in moral development:
"Asked if he would do all this again, Welshofer says, "I helped save soldiers lives. I'm 100 percent convinced of that. If I had done anything less than what I did, if one soldier more had died because I had done anything different, I find that even more reprehensible — even more unacceptable."
How do you get information from a DEAD guy? How stupid is this man not to realize that murdering a surrendered Iraqi General would inspire more Iraqis to join the insurgency? What other choices do they have? If someone who is a General surrenders and cooperates with the American troops and then is brutally murdered, what chance does a regular person have? Why would ANYONE cooperate with such individuals acting like such evil immoral animals?
Not only did Welshofer's killing of the Iraqi General make sure they did not get any information from him, it also made sure that hundreds of Iraqi soldiers picked up arms against the US troops. He inspired them to kill Americans. Welshofer helped promote the violence in Iraq, and some American funerals are directly thanks to him, even if he is too stupid to realize it.
Now, I have no doubt that people in Welshofer's chain of command authorized these evil acts also, and they are probably as convinced as Welshofer is that acting like this is saving American lives. (They don't give a damn about saving Iraqi lives.)
They are evil, they are stupid, and they are a disgrace to the military, to all Americans and the entire human race.
They don't even deserve to consider themselves part of the human race. Mr. Welshofer and his commanders are lower than dirt.
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