Posted on 06/11/2008 12:34:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
We can only hope it works out that way, he deserves every minute of it.
Better that he reveal himself now and suffer the consequences rather than come up small when the chips are down. He could get real soldiers killed.
Draft-dodgers are one thing, deserters quite another.
Draft-dodgers I can understand, even if I disagree with them but I HATE DESERTERS. It’s much more personal.
This arrogant child of privilege (see wikipedia biography) was not drafted and he knew the deal when he volunteered, that his right to actively oppose policy was suspended for the duration of his service. He accepted this condition of his own free will.
Now, he has deserted his comrades and he has done so under fire. Within living memory, he would have been put against a wall and shot for this.
He still could be if the media-left collapses farther and faster than we expect.
It is useless to think ANYTHING is really going to happen to him.
We have too many spineless waste of oxygen in control to make anything worthwhile happen.
The sissy boy should be rotting in prison for a long long time. Why isn’t here in jail already?
Anybody remember this guy? http://www.mikenew.com/
Yes, I remember Spc. New’s case but haven’t seen it mentioned for ages. I believe he was right but he was fighting the powers that was.
A military where soldiers - officers or otherwise - think they can choose which order to obey and which not to obey, which missions to accept and which not to accept, is chaos that cannot be an effective fighting force. Of course that doesn’t bother a lot of people.
The Army serves a democracy, but the Army is not a democracy.
IIRC, he was shot for desertion.
yes... so he didn’t want to be in a war and he is not liking a desk job. Ask not what he can do for his country; ask what his country can do for him....
What a disgrace to all of those who serve so honorably!
Semper Fi
I think he's a wimp.
BUMP to that!
So here we are 2 1/2 years later and this punk is still sitting fat and pretty while the Army JAG lawyers kick the can down the road. Prediction- Watada will walk, quietly and without official fanfare with an honorable discharge just so the Army can get this scum behind them.
Yes, he has. Yes, he will.
Actually we wear ACUs now.
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Wow, some punishment, chilling out at I Corps at Lewis while the rest of us slogged it out in Iraq for 15 months.
Word was that Watada had been fired from a couple of other jobs in his battalion even before he started this pathetic crusade of his.
Not exactly a model officer.
You’re probably right though I hate to even think about that happening. If he does walk I think it will be because the federal judge and/or 9th Circus appeals court rules double jeopardy if he’s retried. I believe the Army wants a piece of him.
You're more than right about that, he's a turd.
Thank you and all the other guys and gals for what you're all doing.
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