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To: Girlene
(maybe because the writer couldn’t get any confirmation?)

He won't get any confirmation, either. Since it didn't exist.

The warning was given not to discuss anything that couldn't be backed up by documents, so yeah, right, whatever.

Why? It is so easy to understand. All you have to do is turn on your family, take money from hard working people, and use that money to buy new friends.

Remember THIS Diana West story?

Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage -- who just happens to be the commander of Evan Vela's battalion, and is said by Vela's team leader to have pushed for higher kill rates from snipers -- explained it this way last August to the Washington Post: "The Jenabi tribe, the problem they're having is that the Al Qaeda is them." So let's review. Evan Vela in May 2007 kills a member of "the Al Qaeda is them" tribe who has compromised his squad, and gets convicted of murder in February 2008 in Baghdad. Baghdad? It was when I heard the court martial was in Baghdad -- not stateside, like other such trials -- that my initial outrage became the queasy feeling mentioned above, which only intensified on learning that Sgt. Vela's division had actually been ordered back to the United States before the trial began. And the smell of a rat grew stronger still when I read that the Iraqi Minister for Human Rights, Wijdan Salim, attended the trial. "I want to be sure that any American soldier who wrongs an Iraqi will go on trial," Ms. Salim told Time magazine. "(Evan Vela) killed an Iraqi man, an unarmed man. He must be punished."

Evan Vela isn't guilty of anything.

16 posted on 06/13/2008 8:11:48 PM PDT by bigheadfred (FREE EVAN VELA, freeevanvela.com)
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To: bigheadfred
You'd think Wijdan Salim would have her hands full with real human rights violations (whether the hell that even means) in Iraq.

But no!

She has time to attend trials of American servicemen and do investigations into incidents such as Haditha...


17 posted on 06/13/2008 8:17:47 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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