Skip to comments.
Ted Cruz makes personal link to military sexual assault reform
Houston Chronicle ^
| June 16, 2015
| Jennifer Reiley
Posted on 06/17/2015 9:28:30 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-57 next last
To: xzins; cripplecreek
Exactly the opposite. The immediate command is respected for honesty, integrity, and attention to detail.
Even after 8 years of Obama being CIC and thinning the ranks of leadership?
21
posted on
06/17/2015 9:44:32 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: TNMOUTH
The military turning a blind eye to things like this has been well documented
Who had the truth about Beau Bergdahl: the local troops and command OR the higher ups?
22
posted on
06/17/2015 9:46:20 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
To: TNMOUTH
I’d bet my house that the number of innocent punished are greater than the number of guilty unpunished. Best thing a man can do is deny the sex ever even took place. If they can’t prove that there is no case. Otherwise, you find yourself on that slippery slope of defining consent, which the feminists are bringing closer and closer to defining as a fully executed contract between two parties.
To: SoConPubbie
I’d take the integrity of a company commander or a battalion commander over a chairman of the joint chiefs any day of the week and twice on Sundayss.
24
posted on
06/17/2015 9:47:59 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
To: xzins
Do the lawyers not interrogate the guys whose boots are on the scene?
To: SoConPubbie
I was never in the military but some things work the same way.
When I was a factory foreman, and crap always found its way to me because I was immediately responsible. It was always better for me that it rise to my level than find its way to the top and come rolling downhill.
Obviously I never dealt with anything as serious as rape but I did “fix” problems so my superiors didn’t have to know about them.
26
posted on
06/17/2015 9:50:04 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: xzins
Exactly. Those who have served know an officer is appointed to actually interview/investigate the matter. Yes, I was an article 32 officer in late 69 as we had an SF SFC drop his death from about 100 feet during rappelling training from a chopper at Bragg. I am fairly sure the doughnut ring was not rigged right, but; I could not prove anything. I just forwarded facts. The military justice system whether it is drugs or murder is as good as civilian.
27
posted on
06/17/2015 9:51:16 AM PDT
by
Lumper20
( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
To: TNMOUTH
Back in the old military this would not be necessary but now that we allow any gender (male, female, male in a female body, female in a male body) maybe things are just so confusing a professional on gender issues is needed. Kinda like the old soviet army where a professional political officer was required to keep the polictics straight. We certainly are starting to resemble the old USSR.
28
posted on
06/17/2015 9:52:39 AM PDT
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: jpsb
Yep, what they have done to the military is a travesty
29
posted on
06/17/2015 10:03:27 AM PDT
by
TNMOUTH
To: jpsb
Abu Ghraib comes to mind.
30
posted on
06/17/2015 10:06:06 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: SoConPubbie
"I have two little girls who are seven and four," Cruz said during a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday. "As I've approached this issue, I've thought about when my daughters come of age, if they choose to step up and serve the country, what rules should be in place to protect my daughters from sexual assault?" We don't want his daughters, or other females serving, get them out.
31
posted on
06/17/2015 10:07:38 AM PDT
by
ansel12
To: xzins
If they'd just gone with the testimony of the troops at Haditha, instead of going with reporters, lawyers, politicians and politicized generals, Haditha would have been dropped.Agreed, and ignoring the despicable John Murtha would have been a good start.
To: SoConPubbie
Bingo indeed!
Who is in a better position to quickly get the unbiased evidence?
A commander who is dependent on good reviews for promotion or a trained legal officer whose only consideration is determining the truth and prosecuting any guilty parties?
The legal officer would have better knowledge of the military justice system and could resolve cases quicker and more efficiently.
33
posted on
06/17/2015 10:23:21 AM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(TED CRUZ because the Republic needs a Constitutiomalist at the big desk)
To: SoConPubbie
This will surely be of value, but does not address the root causes.
34
posted on
06/17/2015 10:30:11 AM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: SoConPubbie
Spoken like a true bleeding heart liberal.
35
posted on
06/17/2015 10:40:42 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
To: P-Marlowe
Spoken like a true bleeding heart liberal.
No, spoken like someone who understands the selfishness of human behavior. That we, as humans, will tend to our self-interests, naturally, more than anything else.
So, if something will reflect badly on me, and I have complete control over the situation, it makes it easier to protect my position over doing the right thing.
36
posted on
06/17/2015 10:43:24 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie; xzins; wolfman23601; Girlene; smoothsailing; 4woodenboats; jazusamo
"I have two little girls who are seven and four," Cruz said during a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday. "As I've approached this issue, I've thought about when my daughters come of age, if they choose to step up and serve the country, what rules should be in place to protect my daughters from sexual assault?"Liberals always personalize national issues. By inserting his family into an issue that he really knows nothing about in order to justify a position that according to all the Military Freepers on the forum is a wrongheaded decision, he has engaged in a typical liberal fallacy of trying to tug at the heartstrings of his listeners rather than convince them using facts and logic.
So in that way, Cruz has taken the bleeding heart liberal approach to this issue.
If it was Jeb Bush who said the same thing you would be ridiculing him.
37
posted on
06/17/2015 10:49:01 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
To: P-Marlowe; SoConPubbie; xzins; wolfman23601; Girlene; smoothsailing; 4woodenboats; jazusamo
"As I've approached this issue, I've thought about when my daughters come of age, if they choose to step up and serve the country, what rules should be in place to protect my daughters from sexual assault?"How about Kung Fu and Concealed Carry?
38
posted on
06/17/2015 10:52:03 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
To: xzins
That doesn’t mean he can’t make a rational decision based on looking at the outcomes of the trials. His teachers have said he’s a brilliant debater.
39
posted on
06/17/2015 10:54:47 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Knights of Sidonia)
To: xzins
And it would be even better if the questions came from a trained investigator.
40
posted on
06/17/2015 11:11:37 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-57 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson