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I was happy to hear that reported when I turned on Fox and Friends this morning
Let all Juries preserve our nation! Hooray!
LOL, they had to make it look good... I wonder what actually they did during those two hours?
Yeah, so far so good.
(( ping ))
I am on record as saying the formal military justice system would sort it out.
They joked about how stupid the charges were.
I have it on good authority they were throwing darts at an ObamaBoard.
:>)
Breakfast? ;-)
Great news!
Excellent news Lancey. Thanks for the heads up.
Six years of hell for this guy. Nothing can ever balance that in this life.
Isn’t it amazing how much quicker the SEALS are (apparently) getting vindicated compared to the Haditha Marines?
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THANK GOD! justice has been served here...lets hope it’s the same verdict for the other 2 SEALs. keep praying.
Type Navy Seals in search box.
4/22
“Justice for Accused Navy SEALs?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498328/posts
“....Unfortunately, the tendency of commanders and Judge Advocates (JAGs) is often to charge suspect servicemembers first and ask questions later.
Part of the rationale for this approach is the versatile Article 32 hearing. Commanders and JAGs figure that due to their extraordinary fairness, Article 32 proceedings will shake out the bad cases from the good, while protecting the command from charges of coddling abusive soldiers or tolerating war crimes.
This pretty much happened in the infamous Haditha cases. When news broke of the battle between Marines and insurgents in that Iraqi town, left-leaning politicians and media outlets were quick to launch fevered claims of a massacre. Most outrageous was the early accusation of Democrat Representative John Murtha that the charged Marines had killed Iraqi civilians in “cold blood.” Although a number of Iraqi civilians were killed in the battle, the reality was much different.
Nonetheless, several enlisted Marines were initially charged with murder, while their officers, including the battalion JAG officer, were charged with a variety of lesser offenses. At the conclusion of Article 32 hearings, conducted by a variety of hearing officers, almost all the cases were dismissed, and the murder charges were dropped (or replaced in the case of Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the last remaining defendant, with charges of manslaughter).
The Haditha cases are the best-known, but hardly the only examples of servicemen falsely accused of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even when exonerated, the careers and reputations of promising officers are ruined. The military justice system is pilloried on both the left (for coddling war criminals) and the right (for persecuting innocents). Mostly, the initial reports of alleged war crimes are trumpeted in front pages of the media and at the top of the evening news, besmirching the country and the honor of the individuals involved — while the eventual outcomes disproving the charges are relegated to side stories, or not reported at all.
The SEALs were offered non-judicial punishment for their alleged crimes (called a Captain’s Mast in the Navy), but they turned it down in favor of courts-martial. While technically not an admission of guilt, accepting a Captain’s Mast is generally tantamount to one. Presiding officers very rarely find the accused sailors innocent, and they often impose effectively career-ending punishment instead...”
The Falujah incident happened in 2004. The scumbag was captured in November of 2009. Still, this whole thing is a travesty.
Obama is deeply saddened.
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