Kicking our SAS, page-116

Another poster who fails to acknowledge reality

"There’s a line in the bombshell report into Australia’s special forces war crimes which makes the blood run cold.

“We bred them,” a soldier tells the inquiry. “Guys just had this blood lust … absolute psychos, and we bred them.”

It’s a horrific thought that destroys everything we’ve ever believed about the military: that it is there to protect us, to serve us, to honour the freedom and safety we hold dear.

If those quoted are speaking the truth – and Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell has confirmed they are – then these soldiers are not aberrations in an institution which was essentially sound. They are the evil products of an organisation so arrogant, entitled and morally corrupt, it’s impossible to imagine how such behaviour ever seeded let alone flourished."