No Commutation for this guy

Not a good sign:

A Bronx soldier who lost his stomach for war allegedly hired a hit man to shoot him in the leg so he wouldn't have to go back to Iraq, prosecutors said yesterday...

"I believe the shooting was a cry for help. It had to be," said Gwen Aponte, whose son has served 10 months in Iraq and just had his tour extended for six more. After being shot in the leg at Bronx Blvd. and E. Gun Hill Road, Aponte told cops the gunman was "an unknown male." ...

But Aponte's attorney described the bizarre incident as a "horrible situation of desperation" by a soldier who needs treatment for posttraumatic stress instead of prosecution.

"He had seen all the horrors of war. He was part of a unit that went door to door with weapons in 120- to 130-degree heat," attorney Marty Goldberg said. "He had seen the death and destruction that comes with serving in the war."

Gwen Aponte said her son has been dramatically changed by the carnage he has witnessed in Iraq and that prosecutors should take that into consideration.

I'm sure a wide variety of young 42 and under War Whores will decry this man's cowardice from their non-serving basements full of John Wayne movies. Fuad Ajami will demand this man be left behind.