I think that these veterans who are returning home from Iraq and other intense war missions need to be given some sort of leniency. By no means am I saying that I believe that they should be completely resolved of their crimes that they commit when they come back from war, however I do believe that it should be majorly taken into consideration that they have fought in war. The courts should look at their criminal records before they left for war, testimony from commanding officers and higher ranking military officials on their character and behavior in the military, and whether or not they successfully completed professional counseling and therapy programs when they returned from war. We ask these individuals to go fight in foreign countries …show more content…
184), and honestly I couldn’t agree more with this statement. However, I do not believe that if these soldiers had a violent criminal record before they left for war, if they did not successfully completed a professional counseling and therapy program after returning from war, or if they did complete a professional counseling and therapy program after returning from war and they still committed a crime, that they should not be granted leniency. At that point you can no longer blame their actions on them fighting in a war. They either had the violent past prior to their war desensitization, they chose not to get help through counseling and therapy after returning from war, or they successfully completed a professional counseling and therapy program post war, and they still made that decision to commit a crime when they knew that they were back in regular society and they knew right from …show more content…
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