Posted on 09/07/2006 5:01:30 AM PDT by leadpenny
I'd be inclined to substitute "theory" for "practice".
Ok
Gabby Hayes had whiskers. Karl Marx had a beard.
-- George Carlin...when he was funny
Yeah...THAT brilliant move is really gonna help him at his court martial.
Don't sentence the Canadians to having to put up with these punks. Leavenworth will do just fine for him.
Canada will chuck him back anyways but the wheels of "justice" in Canada are really slow and a bit creaky./s
IMO, it will go better for him if he turns himself in, in the USA, and saves himself and Canada the wasted time.
Yes it is your tax dollars that did all of that in the past but it is my tax dollars that are keeping this bum on welfare in Canada.
Take him back and help us here raise our collective IQ. After all we tolerated him here in the first place which isn't too smart.
Good idea would be to start a draft, just for him, and send him to Afghanistan. He is already trained, but again, our soldiers are showing great courage in battle which he lacked. ( That is why he's up here right?)
Nah..Take him back, keep your Dixie Chicks while your at it. We have enough problems with our home grown loonies without having to import! By the way, God bless America and your troops doing a bang up job in Iraq!
"All those rich people in my country sent me to die
for oil and my education," he says. "I don't feel like I want to go back right now. Maybe if
things change."
Oh please. No one forced you to raise your hand. You are an idiot or you are a liar.
The guy looks like a terrorist. How do we know he hasn't coverted up there and is now part of the jihad against America? Look at him!
A bit more complicated than that. A declaration of war against a foreign government presupposes that there's a foreign sovereign to declare war on. The US didn't recognize the North Vietnamese as a legitimate government, and took part in Korea as part of a UN force, so a US declaration of war wouldn't have been appropriate.
For that matter, the US never declared war against the Confederacy, because its position was that the CSA was not a sovereign government, but a domestic rebellion.
I know it's legalistic nit-picking, but war is always a political act. And I will note that I don't see any international political reason -- though plenty of domestic ones -- not to declare war on Iraq in 1991 or 2003.
Oh please. No one forced you to raise your hand. You are an idiot or you are a liar.
No, he is just a coward pure and simple.
Yes, but legalistic nitpicking is the reason these deserters have no fear of the death penalty. Any lawyer worth his salt would argue that we weren't "at war".
Moreover, Congress has the power "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"... It says nothing about there being a foreign government being involved. The situation vis a vis Iraq and Afghanistan is little different from the war on the Barbary pirates.
Unbelievable is right. You try to call BS, tell me what I'm thinking and then get your wittle fewings hurt when I called you on it. Learn to read for comprehension and let others do their own thinking.
"Leadbrain!" Name calling. That's when you lost, REMF.
And it'd be a pretty strong argument, because we've been "at war" -- by some definition or other -- for nearly all of my lifetime. I was born in 1970, but the assessment would be the same if I'd been born in 1950.
I don't know the UCMJ well, but I do know (or at least believe, I could be wrong) that the highest form of desertion -- the one that customarily carries the death sentence -- is desertion in the face of the enemy. It's an important distinction.
If you're counting on someone to ship out with you, that's different from counting on someone to cover your backside in a firefight. Failure to do either is reprehensible, but the one that is more likely to get people killed is deserving of more severe punishment. If you're going to bail, better to bail stateside.
Off to Leavenworth, bub.
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