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In a nutshell, a US soldier based in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was told, in January of this year, to play the role of an unruly detainee in order to give the other soldiers practice in controling unruly detainees. What happened next is horrifying. Not only did this guy get the shit beaten out of him, causing a traumatic brain injury (gee, sounding familiar to Abu "Isolated Incident" Ghraib?), but even worse, Bush's army completely disowned the guy even though he can now no longer work as a result of his injuries.
Mr. Bush, why do you hate our soldiers?
From the LA Times:
Four MPs slammed Baker to the floor, he says, then choked him and pounded his head at least three times against the floor. Gasping for breath, he managed to spit out a code word — "red" — and to croak: "I'm a U.S. soldier! I'm a U.S. soldier!"
But the beating continued, according to Baker, until the jumpsuit was yanked down in the struggle, revealing his military uniform. Only then did the MPs realize that they had been beating an American soldier — causing a traumatic brain injury, Baker alleges....
Honorably discharged with a medical retirement in April, Baker spends dreary days inside a nondescript duplex in central Kentucky, unable to work because of what he says are seizures caused by the beating. He is taking nine prescription medications for seizures and headaches, his lawyer said. He has yet to receive disability payments promised by the military.
"The way the military treated Sean is unconscionable — and the way they continue to treat him is even worse," said attorney Bruce Simpson....
The military at first said Baker's medical discharge was not related to the beating at Guantanamo. Last week, the military reversed itself, saying the incident was partly responsible for his discharge....
"I never thought my military career would end as a result of a beating which I sustained at the hands of my fellow troops," he wrote. "Someone in charge should have known better."
