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Officer Facing Court-Martial Denounces War
LA Times ^ | January 18, 2006 | Teresa Watanabe

Posted on 01/18/2007 8:25:13 AM PST by RDTF

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To: CPT Clay

There will be enough volunteers that his sorry ass will be shot to hamburger,and they will have to hold the execution in a football field.


21 posted on 01/18/2007 8:55:12 AM PST by twonie (Just because there are fewer of us don't mean we are wrong.)
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To: RDTF

Should be put up against a wall and shot.


22 posted on 01/18/2007 9:06:50 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: USMCWife6869

Used to be the same in the Army. I got RIF'd in 1972 when I was a CPT. I heard and read that later, instead of having a Board review OERs, they went with the same policy. If you weren't in the primary zone or secondary zone for promotion within a certain time in grade, you were out.


23 posted on 01/18/2007 9:10:06 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: MikeA
"free tuition and cheap airfare to Europe"

In this case, it's probably that he's a wannabe Demagogue activist whose father is a major Demagogue bozo in Hawaii. This clown joined up in 2003, probably with ever intention of trying to sabotage the war effort. Lock him in Leavenworth and throw away the key.
24 posted on 01/18/2007 9:28:07 AM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: Enchante

Everyone is missing the point that these Al queda butt sucker is a danger to his fellow troops.

He's a traitor and would be going over and telling the enemy every day where we are.


25 posted on 01/18/2007 9:31:42 AM PST by dleecomeback07 (Does anyone have a QB the Bears can borrow?)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Why a "Hudson High" grad. Did I miss something?


26 posted on 01/18/2007 9:36:26 AM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: rlmorel

Hudson Hugh = west point. If he were a grad, that would mean he entered before the WOT started.


27 posted on 01/18/2007 9:39:31 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: USMCWife6869

Officer policy used to be(in the Army at least), passed over for promotion twice and you are out.


28 posted on 01/18/2007 9:42:09 AM PST by calex59
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To: Enchante

Is his father a Demagogue-crat activist?


29 posted on 01/18/2007 9:44:46 AM PST by MikeA (Nancy Pelosi: The Speaker of the News Media)
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To: USMCWife6869

The Army has a similar system, but I can't speak for the Air Force or the Navy.


30 posted on 01/18/2007 9:44:56 AM PST by PVT4evr (Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Ahhhh. Never heard that nickname...I WENT to Hudson High as a kid...:)


31 posted on 01/18/2007 9:49:52 AM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: rlmorel

West Point, or a real highschool named for Hudson?

(Thanks for understanding my hugh typo, btw)


32 posted on 01/18/2007 9:52:26 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: RDTF
courts have ruled that soldiers do not enjoy the same degree of free-speech protections as civilians.

No they don't...and they know this when the VOLUNTARILY enlist!

33 posted on 01/18/2007 10:06:36 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Enchante
probably with ever intention of trying to sabotage the war effort.

I do not believe there is any "probably" involved in his intentions. IIRC, when this story first broke, it was researched and pointed out that is was exactly why he enlisted. Don't have time to find the research, though.

34 posted on 01/18/2007 10:08:28 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: concerned about politics

I know some guys who signed up for three hots and a cot.

But when their respective units got deployed to the Land of Bad Things, they went, and did their duty.


35 posted on 01/18/2007 10:11:48 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Just A Nobody
and they know this when the VOLUNTARILY enlist!

Or take a commision as an officer, as this chump did.

36 posted on 01/18/2007 10:12:46 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: Just A Nobody

He's an officer, he did not enlist.


37 posted on 01/18/2007 10:13:26 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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To: RDTF
The nation's first Army officer to refuse deployment to Iraq urged the public in a statement Wednesday to "stop the war so that the death and sacrifices of American soldiers will not be in vain" after a major legal setback in his court-martial proceedings.

Translation: I joined the military so I could get free college and stuff. I didn't think they'd actually want me to act like a soldier!

38 posted on 01/18/2007 10:17:04 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: RDTF

Most LT's still have their heads partially up their posterior.

This guy hasn't begun to pull his out.


39 posted on 01/18/2007 10:29:23 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins
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40 posted on 01/18/2007 10:42:25 AM PST by USMCWife6869
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