Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher who was recently acquitted for doing war crimes is continuing to get bad media coverage. Video interviews with the people he served with show them criticizing him for being too enthusiastic about his job.
Edward Gallagher’s fellow Navy SEALS chillingly described him as ‘freaking evil’, ‘toxic’ and trigger-happy in previously unseen video interviews with investigators ahead of his war crimes trial.
The SEALS were interviewed by naval criminal investigators before Gallagher was charged in September 2018 – and then later acquitted – of war crimes, including the murder of a wounded ISIS fighter in Iraq.
The video recordings of their interviews were leaked to the New York Times and are now shown publicly for the first time in its The Weekly documentary series.
In addition to the video interviews, combat footage and text message exchanges between the SEALS were also released.
They were all part of the investigative files used in Gallagher’s high-profile trial this summer. The war crimes case against Gallagher drew the attention of President Donald Trump who regularly tweeted his support and then later intervened.
The interviews painted a picture of Gallagher, who was their platoon chief during a 2017 deployment to Iraq, being a reckless leader who had a hunger for violence.
This whole narrative is absurd. The man was a Navy Seal who got paid to kill people and destroy things. And because he was overly enthusiastic about killing people, he was charged with war crimes and is being criticized for it.
So what if he was evil or had a hunger for violence? I couldn’t care less.
The man was just doing his job. He was ordered to go over to the Middle East and kill Moslems. The fact that he was charged for war crimes because he liked doing his job is insane.
Why aren’t the people who ordered him to go do these things being charged with war crimes? You could certainly make the argument that George W. Bush, Barack Obama and even Donald Trump could be charged with war crimes.
Funny how the people who launched these insane wars are never held accountable for anything. It’s only the lower level people who were carrying out the orders they were given.
