[mandaladon]

Golsteyn "claimed to have captured and shot and buried a suspected IED bomb maker. He further went to comment that he went back out with two others to cremate the body and dispose of the remains," according to a memo summarizing the Golsteyn case. "Capt. Golsteyn stated that he knew it was illegal but was not remorseful as he had solid intelligence and his actions protected the safety of his fellow teammates."................If true he should be given a medal.

[Frank_2001]

It’s a good thing we did not fight our battles like this in WW2, or I might be typing this in German! /s;)

[Reno89519]

He should be lucky he wasn’t charged with murder as that is what he apparently did. This has been tossed around in the news and here on Freerepublic for quite a while. As a veteran myself I take offense to what he did and his obstruction. He should be booted with dishonorable discharge as this reflects so incredibly poor on our other soldiers and on the US.

[chaosagent]

So how is this an ‘arbitrary’ killing when he tracked down an insurgent and killed him, but it’s not ‘arbitrary’ for the government to track down and kill an insurgent with a drone?

[cpdiii]

.If true he should be given a medal.

Wrong! He should be given two medals, one get out of jail free, a promotion and our gratitude to men like him. Men that put the protection of their troops ahead of political correctness.

WHAT PART OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IT IS A GOD DAMN WAR do they not understand? Unfortunately the political correct do understand. What most people do not understand is the politically correct are not on our side.

[expat2]

Others believe the Army is obligated to act because the Geneva Conventions governing warfare forbid arbitrary killings by troops, said Jeffrey K. Walker, a St. John's University criminal law professor. "That's a minimum protection anybody gets at any time, no matter how you categorize them or how you categorize the conflict. That is the basic floor below which nobody can drop as far as protections go," said Walker, a retired Air Force officer and former military lawyer. "Arbitrary deprivation of life is at the top of the list of things you cannot do."

But that's exactly what Obama is doing with his targeted drone attacks.

[arthurus]

He should surely have kept his mouth shut at least until after he got out of the Army. His medal should not have been revoked. It was based on what other people saw him do. He did those things.

[Usagi_yo]

Looks like our military is the opposite of our police. Military management sells their soldiers out at the drop of a hat and the police management goes down like the black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.

[vetvetdoug]

Proof without any doubt. If the Army cannot prove it without a doubt they should drop it and let him serve. Here say is not going to cut the mustard within our democracy unless things have changed which they may have.

[Squantos]

Well he got the first two out of three S’s rule right....Shoot, Shovel and Shutup ....

Good work on making worm dirt out of the IED builder Captain....thank you.

[BBell]

It’s like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500.

[jagusafr]

A dismissal can only be assessed by a court-martial. This sounds more like a discharge board.

[kiryandil]

The problem with these 20-20 hind-sighters is that they're never in danger of someone disagreeing with their balderdash in a lethal manner.

If someone brought it to them immediately after they opened their lying yaps, maybe the breed would learn some caution...

[EternalVigilance]

"Arbitrary deprivation of life is at the top of the list of things you cannot do."

Unless you're an unborn child in modern America. Then it's peachy-keen.

[Rodamala]

In Dear Leader Obama’s Army, no good deed goes unpunished.