Posted on 12/15/2010 4:47:28 PM PST by iowamark
An Army doctor who disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned President Barack Obama's eligibility for office told a jury he was wrong to do so and would now deploy if he could.
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin of Greeley, Colo., was speaking during a court martial hearing Wednesday.
Earlier, the jury convicted Lakin of missing a flight that would have gotten him to Fort Campbell, Ky., for his eventual deployment, and Lakin has already pleaded guilty to another charge against him. Lakin gave his statement to the jury before the members decide his eventual punishment.
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Obama authorized a troop surge for which Lakin was in line to participate. It’s not a separate issue at all.
You are attempting to ride a dead horse. Good luck.
“Somebody got to him.”
One rational response to being tried and convicted of an offense is to conclude and say:
“I made a mistake, which I now regret.”
It is routinely expressed, to humor the sentencing authorities, who want a confession and a show of remorse.
Plus on top of that, Lakin may have truly returned to his senses, and realized it was a bonehead idea in the first instance.
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