Posted on 03/24/2005 7:50:02 AM PST by JudgeAdvocate
And you're wrong Kimosabe31. I don't want him nailed; I want him to be vindicated. That's why I am recommending that he takes a polygraph. All he has to do is go down to NIS and answer the questions.
And if I remember correctly, that's when you blew a gasket before you were suspended. If these two were really walking away or towards him, then all he has to do is answer the questions and this will all go away.
But, and you misquoted me, the RTO is saying that Pantano killed them immediately after they were uncuffed. If that is true, then he manifested the intent to kill them before he uncuffed them. If they were just standing there, not doing anything like the RTO says, then he committed murder.
But, I do hope that his story is the truth. That is why if he were my client, I would send him down to take an exculpatory polygraph.
As for Judge Advocates, what do you think about criminal defense attorneys getting clients off who molest little kids, deal drugs on post, and murder other soldiers? They're defending the defenders, too. If I retired, then good order and discipline would break down.
And if you have all the answers, then why don't you sign up and fix what you perceive to be broken? Are you afraid you couldn't pass the bar exam? Perhaps, you'd have a little problem with the 3-mile run. Or, maybe you'd have a problem with the security clearance.
What do you do for a living, anyways, Kimosabe?
"we certainly should NOT abide by the Geneva Conventions in any war with an enemy that is not a signer of the Geneva Conventions and/or does not abide be the same."
Okay, then you need to talk to my boss...Go straight up Pennsylvania Avenue; it's the big house on the left. Last briefing I got, he said that we are still applying the Geneva Convention protections to all detainees in US custody.
We, in the military, follow the orders from our Commander in Chief. And since the US Constitution has vested the power to make agreements with other countries in the executive branch, I think you need to talk to him. Or, better yet, perhaps you should run for President yourself.
I do not equate US combat troops with child molesters and drug dealers.
I hold a "top secret" clearance JAG. What I do, I cannot post on the web. Thanks for asking.
JAG, don't misunderstand me. I commend you for your loyal service. When I first began reading your posts you kind of came across like an islamofascist commissar "plant" in the JAG's office. I now believe that to be untrue.
My disagreement is with the policy which states that rabid vicious animals must be treated in compliance with geneva convention. With 1.2 billion muslims on the planet, there are easily 50 to 100 million islamofascist "subhuman" fanatics on the planet who will NEVER be rehabilitated anymore than a pedophile can be rehabbed.
To me that means an ongoing...maybe never ending task of drawing down the numbers, basically eradicating the "cult" and "cultists" wherever they exist. I seriously doubt that the job will ever be finished andwe as a nation can NEVER relax our guard. An aside: Should we EVER make the tragic mistake of electing another clinton or kerrey as president, it could well spell the end of our nation.
Consequently I see any policy of treating terrorist POW's in accordance with the geneva convention as laughable if it were not so tragic. Our commander in chief whom I support most of the time is no more infallable than the pope. He is as WRONG about the disposition of terrorist POW's as he is about border control. Once they are captured they should be interrogated and quietly "disappeared", not recycled thru some "brain dead" revolving door policy. For whatever reason, Lt Pantano had it right. That's Kimo's view of the world.
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