Army officer to be court-martialed

No. He missed an ordered movement as an officer of his unit and engaged in sedition while in uniform in an attempt to prevent his unit from fighting.

In any other war in any other place he would have been shot.

It's traditional.

If I recall correctly, this is the officer who joined the service with the specific intention to deliberately refuse the orders of the CINC. The moment he got his commission out of OCS, he turned into a raging fruit.

His parents are hippie peace activists. He's doing this to establish his bona-fides for his upcoming decades of being a left wing pain in the ass.

If that's the case, shoot him.

His parents are hippie peace activists. He's doing this to establish his bona-fides for his upcoming decades of being a left wing pain in the ass.

That's right. He joined the Army ~after~ the Iraq war was well underway, specifically intending to be a disruptor.

I wasn't sure if you were correct about Watada joining the Army after the Iraq War started, so I looked it up.

Yes, you're right. Watada did join the Army after the Iraq war started. He's made a complete nuisance of himself speaking in front of adoring left wing audiences calling them the 'real patriots' in full view of their Palestinian flags and Che Guevara shirts.

I don't personally know what seven long years in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth is like, but I'm sure that at least on welcoming new inmates there's rigidly strict military penal discipline, excruciatingly long labor-filled days, and absolutely zero talking to anyone except by permission. Overly-bright fluorescent lighting, painted concrete walls and floors, and the smell of Clorox bleach everywhere he goes as he's escorted by military police. If he behaves in there, he might one day be allowed to watch 30 minutes of daytime TV idiocy and eat chow with a few other inmates in a cafeteria. Most prisoners in Leavenworth are there for sexual assault. Just think about seven years of that. SEVEN. Seeeeeveennn Yeeeaaarrsssss....

Talk about a chicken kamikaze pilot who just 'grazed the ship'. What an idiot. I hope his parents are proud of the trouble they helped get their dumbass son into.

Isn't that a bit extreme?

No. This Brigade has already had about a dozen or so deaths and 2-3x that wounded from enemy action throughout our AO. Those men and women served honorably and did their duty. The least we can do to honor their bravery and devotion to duty is execute an utter coward like Watada.

" don't personally know what seven long years in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth is like, but I'm sure that at least on welcoming new inmates there's rigidly strict military penal discipline, excruciatingly long labor-filled days, and absolutely zero talking to anyone except by permission. Overly-bright fluorescent lighting, painted concrete walls and floors, and the smell of Clorox bleach everywhere he goes as he's escorted by military police. If he behaves in there, he might one day be allowed to watch 30 minutes of daytime TV idiocy and eat chow with a few other inmates in a cafeteria. Most prisoners in Leavenworth are there for sexual assault. Just think about seven years of that. SEVEN. Seeeeeveennn Yeeeaaarrsssss...."

Gee, I wonder why the ACLU isn't complaining about this. It's worse treatment than the murderers at Camp Gitmo get. Having worked in NY State prisons for 23 years, I'd prefer to see him shot, but unfortunately, we're too civilized for that.

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