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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Crime Soldier Waging War at the War Room?

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Seattle Police arrested a 25-year-old Everett man at the War Room nightclub on Capitol Hill Sunday morning after, a police report says, the man threatened security staff.

According to the report, man had threatened to shoot several staff members after they refused to let him in the club because he was "extremely drunk."

After staff denied the man entry, the report says, he clenched his fists, puffed out his chest and told club security he was "not too fucking drunk" and was "going to fuck [them] up."

"Do you how many Iraqi's I killed?" The man reportedly asked War Room staff. "I did two tours in Iraq."

Police did not find a gun on the man, and he was booked into the King County Jail for harassment.

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"Do you how many Iraqi's I killed?"

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say 0 since pfc's rimjobbing lieutenants don't see much action, but you should have killed one american (yourself)

Posted by mike on March 10, 2009 at 5:52 PM

Very sad story.

Posted by Trevor on March 10, 2009 at 6:07 PM

@1

Please do not mock veterans. 300,000 veterans are out there with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. Multiple tours greatly increase the chances of PTSD, and ongoing exposure to devastating explosions (IEDs) are leaving invisible scars. So yeah, now more servicemembers and veterans are killing themselves than are killed in combat. The VA is a nightmare bureaucracy which would stress out a sane person and were seeing more and more self medication. Hence this belligerent drunk. It's sad, but expect a lot more of this in years to come. Thanks Bush! Thanks Obama! Thanks America!

Posted by humility on March 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM

we don't give our military enough psyche support when they get back from doing our dirty work. I'd be pretty effed up, too. (More than I am now, I mean.)

Posted by superyeadon on March 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM

A whole new generation of messed up veterans. Just what we need.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but sympathy for these folks. It's just so frustrating to see it happen yet again.

Posted by We Never Learn on March 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM

Jesus, didn't anybody say "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

Posted by jacobus on March 10, 2009 at 6:45 PM

army trash

Posted by Go away! 'Batin'! on March 10, 2009 at 7:04 PM

How many Iraqi's what?

Posted by apostrophe patrol on March 10, 2009 at 7:48 PM

thanks again George.

Posted by Jesus Fucking Christ on March 10, 2009 at 7:50 PM

May not be a vet. In Vietnam time more than one drunk civilian tough guy lied. Either way, hope he gets what he needs.

Posted by david on March 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM

#3 - pretty sure Obama voted against the war, and has inherited Bush's (and Hillary's, McCain's, etc.) mess.

Posted by catsnbanjos on March 11, 2009 at 5:48 AM

@6,
Exactly! Strangelove was the very first thing I thought of too.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on March 11, 2009 at 8:17 AM

Going with @1 and @10 here. Lots more tough guys bragging about their war exploits than there are actual veterans out there.

Jonah, you could always act like a real reporter and find out for your readers if he was actually a veteran. Of course, that might undermine your original reasons for posting, so why bother?

Posted by Not a vet, but married to one on March 11, 2009 at 9:49 AM

I tried to date a war torn hero- and he was... but I couldn't. Post war trauma is real. However most Vets don't go out and tell everyone to suck my cock- Hey, I did it! Iraq was wrong, bringing it home doesn't make it better. This guy sounds like BS ,BTW.

Posted by Kat on March 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM