Posted on 06/11/2008 12:34:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
It is easy to see why Tara McKelvey is the first supposed journalist to get close to Watada in more than a year, her article is a typical leftist antiwar hit piece.
Also, the link of the "recent release" they refer to is a Fox News piece of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report and almost two years old.
Sounds like Mr. Watada owns a yellow stripe...down his back.
He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.
GENERAL PATTON—— What would you do with him sir ????????
Then send him to Afghanistan. On a solo recon mission. Fresh, bright new BDU's. In the mountains. It's legal.
He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.
He joined during the war. He obviously has an agenda.
Bust him down to E-1 and have him serve his commitment on "weeds and seeds"
Is it punishment, or did they put him there so he can't f#$k up anything important?
Check your history. This is willfull disobediance to orders and could be construde as cowardice. If memory serves the UCMJ stills lists those as offenses punishable by death by firing squad or some such less punishment. There was a time before we became to civilised that the answer would have been easy - find a convient wall and eight soldiers with loaded weaponds.
The thing is he was an officer assigned to a Stryker Brigade that was deployed to Iraq and has completed it’s deployment and already returned.
He deserves to be assigned to Leavenworth, IMO.
Just think of his affect on his unit’s cohesion and morale.....firing squad.
His being assigned to a desk is not punishment, it is a place to put him until the decision is made by a federal judge or 9th Circus Appeals court on his court-martial. The Army is going to keep him right there until that is decided.
Above from wikipedia...note family pattern, and attendance at Hussein's old school.
I agree completely but that isn’t going to happen now, I think he’d have been shot for pulling this in WWII.
No question; criminal. He refused to obey a lawful order from his superiors.
Let’s see - mine clearing, ambush detector, radiation cleanup, bullet catcher, artillery target - just to name a few.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his dad protested the Vietnam war and joined the Peace Corps to avoid the draft.
Ehren joined for educational benefits and got them, IMO. He should be made to pay every dime back.
Absolutely! His opinion of the Iraq war has nothing to do with disobeying a lawful order.
1. Why did he enlist knowing there was a war going on ???
2. Why did he re-enlist knowing that there was a war going on ???
3. Do pledges meant nothing to him ????
I was trying to calculate how long the Lt. can look forward to being in uniform. His current efforts before a federal judge will take about a year, then as long as three years for the appeals process, and *then* his court martial, followed by a possible sentence of six years.
He might not get out of the military until 2018. That is, assuming he doesn’t still have any further obligation that he will have to meet as a private, when all is said and done.
Eddie Slovack (spelling?) WAS shot for cowardice in WWII.
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