[SmithL]

He's being tried for acting like a SEAL instead of a lawyer.

[SmithL]

If you're interested.

[ProudVet77]

This stuff makes me sick. How can the people of the US have a sense that we are at war when we prosecute our finest. If these charges were brought up during WWII against a member of the UDT, the prosecutor would have been given a section 8.

[lilylangtree]

Good grief! Leave the SEAL ALONE.

[sean327]

No, he's being tried for abusing a detainee. As an officer he is supposed to set the example. He failed, and is being tried. If he didn't do it he will walk.

I haven't said too much during these threads about prisoner abuse, but I need to speak up now. The military must unfortunately investigate every alegation of abuse because of all our liberal friends running around looking for the boogy man. Do not blame the command for the investigation, their hands are tied, they have to do it.

[cynicom]

First, being an officer he will skate, unless he has ticked off someone up the ladder. Second, the military is loaded with the goody two shoes lawyers that have never gotten their hands dirty in a MANS WAR. It is a rigged system, called Military Justice.

[NJ_gent]

"He's being tried for acting like a SEAL instead of a lawyer."

No, he's being tried for breaking the code he swore to uphold. If you break the code, you go to jail; end of story. It's easy to get emotional in all this, but there's absolutely no logical reason for this type of behavior. The military holds standards of conduct for a reason. We have professional soldiers for a reason. Those who are unable to control their emotional outbursts should not be soldiers in our professional fighting forces - they're a danger to themselves and their fellow soldiers.

I love how people will come on and defend the disgraceful actions of these few soldiers here and there. What they do is provide fodder for the enemy. They give ammo to enemy propaganda machines and inevitably help to turn others against us. They give pause to those who would like to believe that the US takes the moral high ground wherever possible. What's striking to me is how professional those in the military are. The vast, vast majority put their job and the code ahead of their personal feelings. It's amazing to me that the number of people in our military who don't uphold the code is so low that it's easy to memorize each and every one of their names.

We have the most professional fighting force in the history of the world; that's why we win wars. Once we start acting like the savages we're slaughtering, or condoning the actions of those who do, we're lost.

[Billthedrill]

Assuming he did it, which is by no means a certainty, he ought to reflect on two basic rules of combat leadership - never lose control, and never take pictures.

[FierceDraka]

What BS. Allowing lawyers to dictate rules of engagement is like allowing them into any other field: Wherever there is a lawyer in charge, it's going to end up a mess.

In fighting Islamic terror, we have to remember that we are NOT fighting uniformed national soldiers, but monsters who have traded their very humanity for a nebulous afterlife in "paradise".

They respect no law but the transcribed rantings of an illiterate 7th century child-raping bandit. Their culture regards qualities like our mercy, decency and compassion as weaknesses to be used against us.

With that said, I advocate one, single rule of engagement when dealing with Allah's "soldiers":

NO QUARTER, NO PRISONERS. If they use a religious structure as a hideout or ammunition dump, blast it to rubble. If prisoners are taken, they are to be interrogated and dispatched with extreme prejudice.

All this yapping about "we must be better than our enemies" is a bunch of feel-good BS - the kind of thing some ivory-tower academic socialist would come up with and then stick his smug nose in the air.

It's the job of the military to kill people and break stuff, not to coddle mass murderers and make sure they get their cup of warm milk before bedtime.

Prosecuting an American soldier for roughing up a murderous thug is DEAD wrong. Were it up to me, the guy would be receiving a medal on the steps of the White House.

IMHO, sometimes you have to fight evil with evil.

[Toadman]

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