Posted on 08/02/2011 6:45:36 AM PDT by curth
bfl
Wow...
I hope they stand firm. The delay until the next appeal may work to their advantage. If we are lucky, there will be a new sheriff in town.
Note to Army: When a terrorist kills two Soldiers in a particular platoon, and you intend on releasing said terrorist, send an officer NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY with the platoon/company of the Soldiers who were killed.
It’s not Rocket Science.....
The DOD needs a top-to-bottom house cleaning, starting at the top. There is only one potential POTUS that can and will do the job: POTUS Sarah Palin.
With a little bit if luck we will have new ROE on 21 Jan. 2013. No more “Mr. Nice Guy”, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later!
This is going to come back to bite Obama.
It will be the Willie Horton ad of the 21st. Century.
Taking what’s said here at face value, I’d wonder why the appellate level would turn out this screwy. Has it been packed by the Bummer administration with ignoramuses (ignorami)? Obama has quite the gift for the tossed monkey wrench.
Might be a travesty of justice, but she is very hard on the military justice system. She assumes these men have no honor.
I suspect the rules of what the judge allowed in for evidence was more at fault than the people that made up the jury.
I can’t get the link to work, where would I get info on why this guy is being charged?
That’s why my son will never join up like his father, 6 uncles and grandfather did. Unless he became a lesbian-communist Latina then his temper would have made a criminal of the PC mentality currently permeating the armed forces.
The democrat quisling party has almost accomplished it’s goal of destruction of the country and asserting a police state. It needed to destroy the economy, takeover education in order to indoctrinate the majority of the country and limit knowledge and finally the destruction of the military effectiveness.
One of the Republican nominee’s campaign promises should be a full pardon for the Leavenworth Ten and any other soldiers ensnared by the pro-Muslim rules of engagement.
“Military justice for the majority is prefabricated according to the wishes of the local Commander, and the “trial” or “court-martial” is tantamount to a pre-ordained verdict of GUILTY. How could any court proceeding be considered fair when the “convening authority,” by right of title, is given the power to select the judge, the jury and defense and prosecution attorneys?”
The premise is false. The CA does not select the judge, the jury (members of the court martial panel are subject to objection for any - or no - reason) or the defense or prosecution attorney. They may have a point in Behenna’s case (I don’t know, having not followed it), but using false data doesn’t bolster their case.
Colonel, USAFR
Meanwhile, the POS Quisling who murdered his fellow soldiers in cold blood at Ft. Hood is still drawing a pay check . . .
Disgraceful army nonsense.
We live in Bizarro World, the upside-down world of liberalism. It’s going to take a purge of the courts, civilian and military as only one of the actions we need to take.
I respectfully disagree about it being a gift. Causing chaos and mayhem is easy even for the small minded. The trick is having the lack of conscience to do it.
Keep trying. The link should work but may be busy. There’s a wealth of information there. One additional bit of irony you might not see is that sometime after this incident, the army issued a “wanted dead or alive” order on Ali Mansur, not knowing he had already been killed. Makes no difference; 1st Lt Behenna is still locked up in Leavenworth.
As you very well know politics and personal vendettas run rampant at the company/battalion level.The CO will do a preliminary investigation. He will interview First Sgt.’s, company commanders, other platoon leaders. Also take into consideration the military is and always has been a “good ol boy” club. If you are well liked and respected you can get away with alot. On the other hand if your a smart ass or pissed off others, well, lots of luck on that one. There is nothing “fair” about how the UCMJ is administered.
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