Posted on 09/27/2005 6:27:09 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
Only Bill and Lyndie can say that.
I haven't been following this story much - glad to hear that the US military has stuck to the UCMJ and not fallen into the pits of PC justice that civilians have to put up with.
Unfortunately though, officers are usually treated more leniently - like white collar criminals - "the embarrassment is punishment enough" is the usual excuse for light sentences.
I was always of the feeling that the punishment for the leaders should be equal to the TOTAL punishment for all those under their command. If 10 enlisted get 1 year each, the CO deserves no less than 10 years!
Same goes for police, lawyers, judges, and definitely politicians - the death penalty should be mnadatory for the acts of treason by those people. Since they have the power of life and death over the public - they need to suffer the maximum consequences.
Every front page, and every five minutes on every news broadcast for months.
Disgusting.
She should have received a medal. Take the visegrips to these filthy POS-it's fine with me. Seems like most have forgotten who we're fighting. Although wearing panties on your head IS almost as humiliating as having your head removed with a rusty kitchen knife...
3 years seems like the appropriate sentence to me.
But stupidity isn't supposed to be a court-martial offense.
The only problem is that the Officier that has been in 10 years gets punished for the actions of A-Holes who have been in less than 4. By your plan, we would be out of officers in 6 months!
Oh man, throw him in jail
Maybe her child will mature faster than her, without her.
She ought to be discharged and allowed to get on with her life. The panty head terrorists had been trying to kill her and the Americans there. We don't want to put panties on their head, so take a sensitivity training course. They cut the Americans heads off, videoed the event, and then threw the corpse on the side of the highway. Somehow this equation seems lopsided. Justice was not served. Political correctness was served.
I don't condone what she did, but she received a sentence that was far to stiff. She was manipulated by Graner.
Keep in mind that she was abusing killers. The liberal bias media made these victims out to be innocent humble Muslims.
~Scott~
Sterilize Her...
that is, of course, the officer is guilty of gross negligence and malfeasance like these were.
Many of us civilians also forget that the prison was incredibly overpopulated by this human debris who were constantly on the verge of rioting. Outside of the prison attacks were taking place on an almost daily basis. Yeah, sounds like a great time...
They may have been negligent, but they did not order the actions. If my child steals the car, should I be barred from driving for life? (probably a bad analogy).
X42 comes to mind
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