Posted on 06/18/2008 7:22:37 PM PDT by RedRover
Now would be a very good time.
Sullivan is pathetic. It’s one thing to be a loser, but another thing to be a crybaby about it.
The last thing the President and on down the chain of command wants to give is the appearance of a cover up, even if the charges are total BS like they are here. I do believe if needed, President Bush would step in at the appropriate time. Right now he's let the legal system do it's job and up till now it's worked with this one.
That sounds very familiar....
BUMP!
Haven't read everything about the case from this paper but I thought they were fairly balanced. This is an outright lie.
I forgot to add that if the prosecutors keep this malarkey going it could eventually end up in the President’s hands through the legal system. If it does and he doesn’t smack down the people who are attacking our troops hard then I’ll agree with you.
Yes it is. Some of the NCT writers are very good, and some - - like Mark Walker - - are sloppy scrubs, fresh out of the basement of some Daily Collegian somewhere.
I'm off, brother, had a long day with other matters. I'll catch ya tomorrow! :-)
Prolonging the idiocy.........
You’re right, it is an outright lie.
The coverage has been fairly legit at the NC Times but as these hearings and now court-martials have strung out Mark Walker has made some glaring mistakes, some so glaring you wonder if it was a mistake on his part such as this one.
Wonder how much THIS decision plays into all this...
In stunning reversal, a federal auditing agency said today that a $40-billion Air Force contract awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp. was flawed and recommended that the Pentagon reopen the competition for what is expected to be the biggest defense procurement for at least a decade.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-tanker19-2008jun19,0,4394525.story
Remember the ties between Murtha - Northrop Grumman and Sec Navy Winters...
Yes, I saw it and FRmailed a link to you on the video at Fox News, it was a great segment.
Talk atcha tomorrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy-Marine_Corps_Court_of_Criminal_Appeal
That’s what bothers me.
Semper Fi. The Marines stand by their fellow Marines. You don’t abandon a fellow Marine.
But I suspect that Murtha and others are threatening to defund vital programs and really damage the Corps if the top brass don’t play ball, abusing their political power and putting them between a rock and a hard place.
Yes correct. There is an automatic appeal process in the military
Is that a joke?
Eight Marines and their families have endured a very sick, very expensive nightmare for over two years, all because military and civilian commanders right on up the chain of command ran like cowards from a frigging TIME Magazine story that was planted by insurgent propagandists with the help of an incompetent, deer-in-the-headlights "reporter". And you think the "legal system worked"?? Gimme a break.
Bush handed the prosecution of the war on terror over to a pack of ACLU lawyers and soft, military political hacks, who place more importance on "battlefield ethics", "laws of war", and "rules of engagement" than they do on the lives of the young men who actually have to make split-second, life and death decisions. Congratulations, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush. Nice job.
The judge in this case gave the prosecution 72 hours to inform him of an intended appeal.
This isn't an appeal on a verdict of a jury panel but an appeal on a motion to dismiss charges due to the appearance of UCI.
I haven't read anywhere that this would call for an automatic appeal especially when this judges ruling is so apparently correct.
I resent the Remark that Bush should have stopped this because that would have been as grievous as command influence as has happened here perhaps maybe even more so.
It should be noted that Nixon Pardoned Lt. Caley before he left office when he too could have easily have prevented his Court Martial.
Just it is President Bush responsibility to send young men and women to their deaths in a war it is also his responsibility to ensure that Military Justice is done by the letter of the law, meaning he cannot and must not interfere with the proceedings until they have run their course.
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