Posted on 04/26/2008 4:38:16 AM PDT by RedRover
That a Rorschach of a tick? Where’s the tock?
Isn't Tock the croc in Peter Pan?
I don't know too much about his campaign yet. Smoothsailing is our man on the ground in PA-12. We're waiting for his report. If everything goes as hoped, there'll be a similar campaign here on Free Republic for Russell as in the Diana Irey campaign of '06.
Kind of wacky that Shore got 120 days for assault and Sgt Corrales was acquitted. I can’t believe the Convening Authority won’t spring Shore now.
To be honest with you, as I always am..I found a pic of Tick Tock...but I am tooo lazy to go link it up.
I agree 100%. While they are at it they might as well spring Evan and Ray. And wacky is such a nice way of putting it.
We should know by the middle of next week. The PA-12 is stacked in Murtha's favor. It appears that LT Colonel Russell got the write-ins he needs to be on the ballot in November. I hope he did.
But if Murtha and his goons (including far too many so-called Republicans) can deny Russell ballot access, they will. They've done it before.
We'll see "fella", and if Russell makes it, we'll help him out.
...Corrales fired his weapon because he reasonably believed the man posed a threat to the platoon.Good job, soldier.
Yep, the language posting ban sure cuts into a fella’s vocabulary.
Yeah, but the ban lets us show off our prowess as cunning linguists.
Ga. soldier released while clemency weighed, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 3, 2007
Brian Shore woke up in his Lawrenceville home Friday to an e-mail his son sent from Honolulu in the middle of the night.
"Hey, dad," it said, "It was too late to call. I didn't want to wake you but I'm out now so everything is good."
The elder Shore wished his son had woken him up to tell him that he was no longer confined at the brig at Ford Island in Hawaii.
Pvt. Christopher Phillip Shore, 26, convicted of aggravated assault at a February court-martial, was serving out a 120-day jail sentence. But late Thursday, the commander of the 25th Infantry Division, Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek, deferred the sentence until he issues a final decision on clemency for Shore.
The Georgia soldier, a graduate of Winder-Barrow High School, was tried on a murder charge in the death of an Iraqi detainee last June in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Shore was exonerated of murder but convicted of the lesser charge. His platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, was acquitted of all charges last week in a separate court-martial.
"What message does this send to the military that the lower-level guy is in jail and the other is not?" said Shore's attorney Michael Waddington. "If there is perception of unfairness, the general could fix the problem."
Waddington, of Augusta, said he has "a lot of faith in the military justice system.
"This is not an easy decision," he said.
Bednarek has the authority to review the outcome of Shore's trial and overturn all or parts of the jury's findings. He is expected to announce a ruling in the next few weeks, said Maj. Tage Rainsford, spokesman for the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division.
Rainsford said Shore could return to the brig to finish out his sentence or he could be a free man and have his rank restored. Shore was demoted from specialist to private.
Shore has always maintained his innocence and said at his trial that Corrales ordered him to kill the already wounded Iraqi prisoner, identified by the Army as Salih Khatab Aswad.
Brian Shore said he was overjoyed to learn of his son's release.
"I'm feeling so good I can't keep my feet on the ground," he said.
I can’t say WOW again, so I will say:
NEAT!
If the Army can do it, so can the USMC!!!
It really is an easy decision. I would even call it a no brainer. Which would make it REALLY easy for me to believe the General will have a tough time with it.
How’s the mower runnin’?
That’s what I’m talking about. Thanks, bhfred!
Stinging.
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