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Date: Jan 19, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: Latest Casualty: Soldiers Torment Crippled Dog In Iraq

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1/19/07 — Latest Casualty: Soldiers Torment Crippled Dog In Iraq
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Demand Criminal Investigation of U.S. Soldiers Caught on Video Abusing Dog

The Military’s War On Animals

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VIDEO: Soldiers taunt crippled dog in Iraq

PETITION: U.S. Soldiers Taunt Crippled Dog In Iraq VIDEO

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Honorable Defense Leaders and Elected Officials:

Unprovoked violence, even in a war zone, is unacceptable. It does not matter whether the victim is a child, an adult civilian, or a dog. The victim I bring to your attention just happens to be the latter, a disfigured dog trying to flee soldiers as they hurl rocks at him.

An unsettling video obtained from a CD discovered in Baghdad’s Green Zone depicts what appear to be U.S. soldiers forcefully pitching rocks at a dog with a spinal deformity. As the dog cries out in pain, the participants laugh and one blurts, “That is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” Another suggests, “You wanna go over and kill it?” Huge Internet audiences have recently viewed this disgraceful video at www.liveleak.com/view?i=6445f9fdd7.

I call for an investigation into this gutless act and urge defense leaders to court-martial any soldier connected with the torture of this dog. Americans do not want their tax dollars wasted on tormenting animals in times of war.

Profound cruelty shames U.S. troops and the nation they represent. Moreover, criminologists and mental health professionals view the intensity of vicious behavior (regardless of the victim’s identity) as a precursor to future violence. Testimony at the court-martial hearing for coconspirators accused of aiding one-time soldier Steven D. Green in the murder of an Iraqi girl, 14, and her family revealed Green had once set fire to a puppy and tossed the burning animal off a roof.

Animal cruelty is a key trait in the American Psychiatric Association’s profile for conduct disorders. Randall Lockwood, Ph.D., regularly enlisted to aid cruelty investigators, law enforcers, and court officials, describes violence against small or non-threatening creatures unlikely to retaliate as a precursor to assaulting children, the elderly or disabled, or other vulnerable victims.

Who is more helpless than a crippled dog?

Please do not wait for the next violent “prank” to unfold. I respectfully ask the Department of Defense to fully investigate this incident and hold any implicated soldiers accountable. Civilians are arrested and punished for similar crimes. The military must not accept this arrant disrespect for life. Please establish a precedent of intolerance for animal cruelty now.

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