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To: TLBSHOW
Seems to me that there was a command failure here.

Not because of PCness--just plain stupidity.

Every war has a few guys start going wig just before it happens. We had a few of these in the USMC just before Desert Storm (none involving Muslims of any flavor).

The policy back then was to simply transfer the offending individual to a Stateside desk job. The fact of the transfer happening right before the war, combined with a "velvet stiletto" fitness report, would guarantee that the individual in question would have no career after the war was over.

The 101st didn't do that. They left the guy in theater.

That was downright stupid.
2 posted on 03/24/2003 4:09:28 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah
"You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children."

Didn't anyone catch the phraseology here? Are semantics dead?

If this person didn't see the United States as his country, (and his choice of words indicates that was not the case), then he had no business anywhere near the war zone, especially not in a U.S. uniform.

I agree, someone really screwed the pooch on this one.

34 posted on 03/25/2003 1:16:12 AM PST by Smokin' Joe
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