SSGT WUTERICH'S CHOICE

Defend Our Marines ^ | January 19, 2012 | Nathaniel R. Helms & David Allender

[jazusamo]

I hear you, boats. I think we’re all praying on it.

[stylin19a]

How many NCOs on the panel ? How many of the panel does it take to convict ? Does Wuterich want to stay in the Marines, if so, will he have a career ? I'm guessing you first ask for the Directed Verdict. /p>

[smoothsailing]

Here’s the “deal”....

Full exoneration. Re-instatement of recommendation of promotion to E-7, approval of recommendation with all back pay to original recommendation date.

And I’m just getting started.

[Girlene]

What would you do in SSgt Wuterich's situation as a single father with three young kids?

After reading/researching all that happened that day, I believe SSgt Wuterich made the best decision he could make at the time of the Haditha incident.

I also believe SSgt Wuterich will make the best decision he can in this situation.

My prayers are with him and his family as they contemplate their futures and SSgt Wuterich's decision. Having this dilemna is a win compared to where things were several years ago.

[sarasmom]

I don't know what I would do in his place.
What I would like to see occur is SSgt Wuterich being exonerated of these charges.
Afterwards, I want every single radio and Internet voice raised loudly in demand for a public apology from every entity of government in the USA personally involved in the Haditha Marines persecutions.
I also want all their resignations and/or firings, and everyone possible charged with malicious persecution, under color of law.

[jazusamo]

Amen to that.

[napscoordinator]

What would you do in SSgt Wuterich’s situation as a single father with three young kids?

Tough choice. However, because all the rest were exonerated, I THINK I would risk the trial. Unless there is more “proof” on the government side than the other guys who went through trial, I would risk the trial and pray for a positive verdict. Another problem for him is that he has not had any promotions or anything at all since being charged so he is very behind in his career. His timing stinks big time (no fault of his) and they are slashing 60K out of the Army, Marine Corps and I would hate for him to go through the trial only to be told to go home because he has not had a promotion in a long time. Seriously that stuff happens. I will pray for him.

[Lancey Howard]

I see taking this trial to conclusion as almost no gamble at all. From following this case fairly closely and reading about what has transpired so far in the trial, it is clear to me the panel would have to be corrupt to fail to fully exonerate Wuterich. I don’t believe for a minute this panel is corrupt. And that STILT idea sounds like crap.

Finish this thing up.
Cripes, it’s down to the final few days.

[Don Carlos]

Place mark.

[Lancey Howard]

I agree with Dinsmore completely.
“The good of the Marine Corps” in this case is code for “the good of the political whores with the stars on their uniforms”. Wuterich owes those scumbag perfumed princes of the Pentagon nothing. In fact, by duking this thing out to the end Wuterich actually WOULD be doing something for “the good of the Marine Corps”, because that would mean the REAL Marine Corps - - his brothers in arms, and those still on the ground.

[smoothsailing]

Sheesh, Red, give 'em some food!

[Girlene]

Good points, Lancey. Most of the prosecution’s witnesses have exonerated SSgt Wuterich. The last witness, Mendoza, who had been pressured during Wuterich’s Article 32 to lay all the blame at SSgt Wuterich’s feet, even came through in the end.

If anyone/entity should be on trial....it is NCIS.

SSgt Wuterich is faced with a very difficult decision. He will make the right one.

[smoothsailing]

What is this? Is Puckett blowing smoke or is this AP BS?

.............

But defense attorney Neal Puckett told The Associated Press late Thursday that he expected a full day of testimony Friday, with a squad mate and a forensic scientist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service expected to take the stand.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46063282#.TxjxE6VunNU

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[jazusamo]

After reading the whole article much of it looks like Julie Watson/AP BS.

[smoothsailing]

It does. I really detest the AP.

[Lancey Howard]

"A military judge excused the all-Marine jury..."

"Wuterich led a squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians during raids on homes... after a roadside bomb killed one Marine." (See what the reporter did there?)

"The incident still fuels anger in Iraq today..."

"His squad members have testified... Several said they did not positively identify their targets before opening fire and tossing grenades into two homes near the bomb site."

"The raid went on for 45 minutes. The Marines found no weapons or insurgents, and they met no gunfire in the homes."

"Among the dead were women, children and elderly, including a man in a wheelchair." (Newsroom keyboards have had a single key for this story-ending line since Vietnam.)
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Oh man! How did you stumble onto this? It's from the America-hating Associated Press and posted by the America-hating MSNBC. I think I need a hot shower now.

[4woodenboats]

The whole article appears to be poorly ad lib’d

[smoothsailing]

This is the crap we’re up against. This story goes out on the wire. Hundreds of newspapers pick it up and publish it word for word. Blind ignorance on a national scale.