They are a disgusting pair.
The NCIS and JAG prosecutors have spent untold hours and money on these cases. Charges have been dropped on six of the eight Haditha Marines, one found not guily at court-martial and one CM is pending.
The Marine Corps forced the retirement of two defense attorneys while keeping prosecutors after they were due for separation.
The government investigators and prosecutors have spent tens of millions on these cases while the defendants and their lawyers had to fend for themselves. Now Solis and Walker try to turn it around saying these Marines were waltzed around the courtrooms by their highly experienced, aggressive lawyers. If this wasn't so disgusting it would be laughable.
Ping!
Sounds like in addition to waltzing them around the courtroom those lawyers caught the Marine Corp JAG organization attempting to deny a proper defense.
........Bump.........
They are a disgusting pair.
The only ones trying to “waltz” are solis and walker. Scum
Having been in the courtroom, I can personally tell you that these Marines were NOT “waltzed around” by their lawyers. As a matter of fact, they didn’t dance at all!!!
You are correct - IF THIS WASN’T SO DISGUSTING, IT WOULD BE LAUGHABLE!
Sois and Walker make me want to “throw-up,”
BUMP what you said. This article / column is a new low, even for Walker.
Not only do the military prosecutors have virtually unlimited financial resources, they also have the backing of administration and Pentagon political scum who send signals down through the ranks, signals that are inevitably picked up by judges and panels of officers who want that next promotion. (”We need convictions.”)
Additionally, the military controls the venue, and if they want to make it impossible (or nearly impossible) for the defense to bring witnesses into court, well, then they can just hold the proceedings in Baghdad or Germany, for example.
The deck is stacked against the young heroes who have been second-guessed for their life-or-death battlefield decisions, and worthless scum like Walker and Solis have the gall to continually lie and spit their venim, barely holding back their contempt for the real men who go to war.
Anyway, what was the point of Walker writing this follow-up (and once again going to the Solis well for quotes)? There’s nothing else Walker can do to keep himself out of mischief? I truly wonder if Walker and Solis close the door and play with each other whenever Walker comes calling for quotes to use in his latest hit piece?
>> Solis: “But as long as we put weapons in the hands of 19-, 20-, and 21-year-olds, somewhere, sometime, bad things are going to happen.”
They’re old enough to die for the Country then give them the credit they deserve by not disparaging their judgment.
>> Solis: “They found themselves up against highly experienced, aggressive lawyers who waltzed [the inexperienced prosecutors and military judges] around the courtroom,”
The endless prosecutorial resources and manipulation are not a factor for Solis. Seeking convictions at the expense of jurisprudence is.
“In conflicts as difficult as this war on terrorism, battlefield ethics play a significant role, and stressing that can only be beneficial,” Solis said.
Wrong.
In conflicts as difficult as this one or any other one, closing with and destroying the enemy is always beneficial, even if that enemy is a pair of enemy supporting scumbags like Solis and his pal.
Pulling trigger pullers off the battlefield over ridiculously and obviously manufactured enemy propaganda, working hard to destroy morale of our war-fighters, propagandizing against our own... that is offering direct aide and comfort to an enemy.
We aint serious about war-fighting until we start putting such as those two, and McGirk or whatever that douchebag’s name is, up against a firing squad.
Death to the enemy.
Death to all who support that enemy.
Death to all who work to limit, hamper, degrade or cease our delivering death to all those who are enemy.