Posted on 05/05/2005 8:10:56 PM PDT by No Longer Free State
and an O-7 to boot ..... it looks like most of the Brigade's Chain of Command got hit! This really is something. I don't know too much about all the facts concerning her 'shoplifting' .... if it occurred as an Officer or NCO then something is really wrong ... but remember that both the VP and President have a criminal past ...
Thank you for such an excellent comment.
It is something that the command got hit, I hope more news will enlighten us to why the actions were taken.
It is just smarmy to have a Gen, shop lift in a military store. She has balls, that is for sure!
I'm just so tired of this story I don't know what to post. Bad soldiering, bad behaviour, and a bad media.
I'm glad that Karpinski has at least been given some punishment for this fiasco, and that Sanchez - by most reliable accounts an honorable officer - has not been made to take the fall for this Clintonoid hack.
Yes to everything you said.
This bitch is still a colonel in the US Military? Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
You got this part wrong, her demotion 1 grade level is absolutely and completely NOT fitting punishment for all the degredation that the US suffered because of HER failure. This bitch should be doing jail time. SHOPLIFTING??????? A active duty Colonel in the US Military????? DUH!!!!
bump!
If she was wearing a Marine Corps uniform, (which she would have had a very difficult time in achieving), she would have lost EVERYTHING and had hard time as well as a dishonorble discharge!
While I understand your anger, the shoplifting charge was, and is, a look into the ex-generals character.
I am aware that none are perfect, however persons that are in positions of power, affecting the national interest, must be of unquestionable character.
I'm afraid we, as a nation, have become lost in political correctness and are using affirmative action, gender and other "feel good" methods to choose our leaders, much to the detriment of this great country. Exactly what our enemies, both foreign and domestic desire.
If womyn and minorities are politically correct enough to be promoted to positions of authority and responsibility, they're politically correct enough to be demoted when they don't demonstrate proper authority and responsibility. This is a fine example of equal rights in action although I don't believe that the feminazis accept that.
Not to defend this idiot, but was she ever convicted of shoplifting? I see "arrest" but nothing beyond that listed.
That being asked, she still should have been busted down more... if she is still clinging to the "I had no clue what was going on in my command" as her defense, she doesn't deserve to have the bird on her uniform, that's for sure!
This cracked me up when I read it. Add this to the paper work not processed and she was just plain incompetent....but the pay was good.
Excellent!
One has only to remember the Navy episode of a few years back.
No true. Karpinski was a commanding officer, and could have been court-martialed under at least 3 of the punitive articles of the UCMJ. I sense that she struck a deal, which ultimately kept others out of the limelight.
Thanks for the ping. I agree with you and NLFS. For this woman to have been a general officer and a commander in Iraq says volumes about what the new "kinder, gentler military" has become. I was very much hoping for a court martial for her after hearing what she had said after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. I simply cannot even fathom a general officer whining like that. This does smack of a deal to keep the lid on, but I might be wrong. If she refuses any further comments on the situation, a deal was likely struck.
Your statement is wrong, and the last 30 years has demonstrated otherwise.
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