Posted on 05/24/2010 3:58:57 AM PDT by Scanian
Disturbing news from Afghanistan: The US Army says it has opened a crimi nal probe into the role of a group of American soldiers in the deaths of three Afghan civilians.
Equally disturbing: Those American soldiers can no longer assume that they'll be treated fairly.
Details from the probe are few (as they probably should be) -- but Pentagon brasshats are certainly operating from a place of limited credibility when it comes to prosecuting GIs.
Witness their willingness to railroad three Navy SEALs (since exonerated) on trumped-up charges that they gave an Iraqi terrorist in their custody a fat lip.
In that case, a prosecutor actually argued in court that convictions were needed to show "why we're better than the terrorists."
What's more, there are troubling signs that operations in Afghanistan as a whole are entering silly season.
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Perverse, liberl self-loathing stupidity.
Terrorism is the sacrifice of people to ideology. This prosecutor would sacrifice American serviceman to his reflexive liberalism. Therefore he is exactly the same as the terrorists.
I can not imagine ANYONE joining today’s military and serving under Obambie the Marxist.
Let them fight or bring them home.
Prosecuting Americans for fighting a war is just plain BS.
Actually, our prosecutors are traitors who show why they are worse than terrorists, who would never treat their own in this manner.
Prosecute the war doe not mean arrest the soldiers.
(Dumbass lawyers.)
Didn’t “commander zero” say that he was not interested in victory?
Well, my son has already been there (F-15E WSO) and is going back.
He will be at Bagram.
Look at the WSJ article today (5/24, page A9). Turns out some of the “insurgents” (or, as Holder would call them “bank robbers”, or “freedom fighters”) were disguised as US forces.
I know what we did with Nazis “disguised as US forces” in the Ardennes in 1944; I have a picture of the American firing squad.
According to the WSJ article, five were captured. I wonder what these fools in DC will do with them?
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