Posted on 12/05/2009 9:12:26 AM PST by pissant
SAN DIEGO — A San Diego area congressman and Iraq war veteran is asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to look into charges levied against three Navy SEALs in connection with the alleged abuse of a detainee in Iraq in early September, calling the charges an “overreaction.”
“It’s just so absurd. I mean, they split his lip. In a boxing situation, that’s legal,” Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., told Navy Times during a telephone interview Thursday. “They punched a terrorist in the face and, boom, we’re going to launch these guys out of the Navy.”
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While he’s at it-maybe Congressman Hunter can look into whether the cadets at West Point photographed dozing have been punished.
Parents, alumni and cadets themselves have all reported hearing that those cadets will be severely punished.
The cadets were up before dawn, had a rigorous typical Academy day , were in the middle of studying for finals and
had been ordered into their seats 4 hours prior to the Messiah’s arrival.
They can taunt, throw human waste and physically attack without reprisal, but heaven forbid one of them gets a busted lip.
In contrast (I will be vague, the participants are no longer with us and it may not be true) I remember a story of German prisoners be offloaded, a German officer spitting in the face of the officer in charge of the security detail, at which time the officer pulled his pistol and shot him. Two men threw the man on a truck and drove away while the security detail continued to offload the prisoners.
Guess it was a different world in WW II.
B4DDH
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