U.S. Soldier kills 5 fellow Troops, Pentagon says

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/may/11/111257/us-5-soldiers-killed-baghdad/news-breaking/

'BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a U.S. base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.
The shooting occurred at Camp Liberty, a sprawling U.S. base on the western edge of Baghdad near the city's international airport and adjacent to another facility where President Barack Obama visited last month.
A brief U.S. statement said the soldier "suspected of being involved with the shooting" was in custody but gave no further details. Nobody else was hurt, the military said. It was unclear what provoked the shooting.
In Washington, Pentagon officials said the shooting happened at a stress clinic, where troops can go for help with the stresses of combat or personal issues. It was unclear whether those killed were workers at the clinic or were there for counseling. No details were released about the gunman.
"Anytime we lose one of our own, it affects us all," U.S. spokesman Col. John Robinson said. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of all the service members involved in this terrible tragedy."
Separately, the military announced Monday that a U.S. soldier was also killed a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Basra province of southern Baghdad.
The death toll from the Monday shooting was the highest for U.S. personnel in a single attack since April 10, when a suicide truck driver killed five American soldiers with a blast near a police headquarters in Mosul.'

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We can't continue to send folks to war, over and over again and not expect them to crack under the pressure. This is too sad on so many levels.

The trick of course is that you can't prospectively pick out which one or ones will crack and go into a murderous rage. And so we will pretend that this is an aberration, an anomaly. This isn't the way most military personnel react to their inhumane treatment by our country, so we'll excuse it in this and every instance.

and committed suicide. Now it turns out that he killed five and is in custody.
How sad for everyone including this troubled young man.