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2008-06-17 Iraq

All charges dropped against Lt Col Chessani, USMC (Haditha)

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 13:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 One more nail in Murtha's coffin.

Burn you hateful shit, burn.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-17 13:14|| 2008-06-17 13:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Thats 7 of the 8 with all charges dropped or 100% Not Guilty acquittal.

When will that greedy porker lying sack of sh*t Murtha be called to task on this by his voters?

Are people in PA that f***ing stupid?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 13:17|| 2008-06-17 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Murtha will walk outta this smelling like a rose.
Haditha? What's that? Oh, yeah. Well, my comments were obviously misconstrued. Let's all just...move on.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-17 13:18|| 2008-06-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Murtha's district is union central. When the union says vote, everybody votes for the Dem. Murtha will vacate his seat when he's carried out feet first. Alas.

Posted by Jonathan 2008-06-17 13:28|| 2008-06-17 13:28|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 13:31|| 2008-06-17 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Johnstown - the anal abcess of the rust belt...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-17 13:32|| 2008-06-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Jonathan, that is exactly the problem with Congress in general. For representatives, it doesn't matter if the entire population of 434 Congressional districts hate the guts of a Congresscritter, as long as the people in his district vote for him, he will continue to serve. And he ensures they will vote for him by bringing in the pork.
Which is why we need term limits for Congress. And why we will never have them - it will take a constitutional amendment, and the first step in passing an amendment is getting through Congress.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-17 13:33|| 2008-06-17 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh yeah - and for Lt. Col. Chessani, OORAH!

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-17 13:34|| 2008-06-17 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 "Are people in PA that f***ing stupid?"

No they aren't stupid. He brings MILLIONS of dollars of graft into that Podunk area. Without him and his earmarks, there wouldn't be anything going on there to keep the local aristocracy rolling in cash.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-17 13:36|| 2008-06-17 13:36|| Front Page Top

#10 You got it, Crosspatch. Do away with earmark life support for dying districts and they go poof! Murtha's district is one that should have disappeared a long time ago. As for the unions, they are mainly to blame for the fact that most of Jtown's factories are shuttered and the rest of the place is a giant unreclaimed brownfield.

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-17 13:41|| 2008-06-17 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 I believe Murtha will get his via civil rights, slander and defamation suits to be brought by the Marines individually. I would also like to see the Corps sue him, but that would never happen. Maybe the Commandant can just declare him an ex-Marine. I suspect this is the only price he will pay, but I also suspect he will be watching Michael Nifong's bankruptcy shenanigans for tips on how to deal with his problem.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-17 14:27|| 2008-06-17 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 And don't forget... Lt. Colonel William Russell (RET) moved his entire family to PA just to run again Murtha ---William Russell for Congress

Lt. Colonel William Russell is a decorated combat veteran who has served in Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and the Pentagon on 9/11.

He's a Republican, and he came home to run against Jack Murtha in November but they kicked him off the ballot.

For Republicans to have a choice for Congress this November, 1000 write-in votes were needed. OVER 4000 REPUBLICAN VOTERS PUT BILL BACK ON THE BALLOT!
(About 1000 Democrats wrote him in for the Democratic ticket also!)

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-06-17 15:07|| 2008-06-17 15:07|| Front Page Top

#13 a four-star general overseeing the prosecution was improperly influenced by an investigator

Can one of you military or legal guys spell out what that really means?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-17 15:08|| 2008-06-17 15:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Cool! my very first sinktrap in all my years here.

:-P

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 18:09|| 2008-06-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

#15 a four-star general overseeing the prosecution was improperly influenced by an investigator

I am gonna guess that he was made an offer he couldn't refuse, not without risking his career. Of course, the fact that he made this calculation ought to result in him being cashiered post-haste.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-06-17 18:13|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-06-17 18:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Johnstown

"They brought their fuckin' toys with them!"

Posted by Snineting Tojo5324 2008-06-17 18:34|| 2008-06-17 18:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Oldspook, consider it is a badge of honor to get deepsixed in the sinktrap.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-06-17 18:37|| 2008-06-17 18:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Murtha is to the House as Kennedy is to the Senate. Except Ted has an excuse - he's a Kennedy; Murtha WAS a Marine, so he has absolutely no excuse for being in such dire need of some paper bag poppings.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-06-17 19:00|| 2008-06-17 19:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Fred needs to replace Steve White as a mod. He sinktraps far too often and usually over pretty damned benign comments. Shows what happens when you let a self-proclaimed lib have any power of any sort: it goes straight to their head. Maybe somebody should remind him that the name of this blog is "Rantburg," not "Miss Manners on Etiquette."

Maybe White is prepping for a job on a Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-06-17 19:13|| 2008-06-17 19:13|| Front Page Top

#20 For representatives, it doesn't matter if the entire population of 434 Congressional districts hate the guts of a Congresscritter, as long as the people in his district vote for him, he will continue to serve.

Actually, either the House or the Party can strip the individual of all offices, chairs, and powers leaving the individual with a simple vote in the assembly.

Can one of you military or legal guys spell out what that really means?

TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART II > CHAPTER 47A > SUBCHAPTER IV >
949b. Unlawfully influencing action of military commission

(a) In General.â
(1) No authority convening a military commission under this chapter may censure, reprimand, or admonish the military commission, or any member, military judge, or counsel thereof, with respect to the findings or sentence adjudged by the military commission, or with respect to any other exercises of its or his functions in the conduct of the proceedings.
(2) No person may attempt to coerce or, by any unauthorized means, influenceâ
(A) the action of a military commission under this chapter, or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or sentence in any case;
(B) the action of any convening, approving, or reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts; or
(C) the exercise of professional judgment by trial counsel or defense counsel.

which then leads to -

Art. 92. Failure to obey order or regulation

Any person subject to this chapter whoâ
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or
(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-17 19:22|| 2008-06-17 19:22|| Front Page Top

#21 Thanks P2K. So does this mean the prosecutor who tried to influence the 4 star will be court-maritaled and we will find out what happened?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-17 19:27|| 2008-06-17 19:27|| Front Page Top

#22 P2K, I meant ordinary people in the other districts. You know - voters. Besides, why would the other members of Congress attack Rep. Murtha? All he has done is a) slander members of the military, and b) bring much money to his ~~contributors~~ constituents. To many Congressional Democrats, a and b are both part of his job. For Republicans, b is still part of his job.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-17 19:48|| 2008-06-17 19:48|| Front Page Top

#23

The line here is pretty clear. We do not call for the death of US citizens. No matter how much we may feel they deserve it. And Murtha's high on the list of those who invoke such feelings -- in me, in Steve and in other mods too.

Capice?

This is not Steve White's policy - it's the site's policy and all us mods enforce it. Steve's been doing yeoman's duty modding while some of us have been swamped elsewhere, is all.

I personally was attending to the widow and children of an Army officer, a friend and colleague we buried with military honors today, or I might have been the one to sinktrap our esteemed Old Spook's comment in this thread.

Fred's on the line for potential legal liability from such comments. Those who value Rantburg will respect the pretty minimal rules here and not force the mods to have to sinktrap such comments.

Posted by lotp 2008-06-17 20:22|| 2008-06-17 20:22|| Front Page Top

#24 Folks, please do not taunt the mods on my behalf.

I posted my other comment because I found it rather humorous that my first sink trapping iin recent memory would be over popping paper bags to frighten an old coot...

Its not like I was specifiing a sniper attack, IED or other things our military faces, whilest being sold down the road by some politicians.

You have to admit its unique in terms of dropping a post into the sinktrap - no high explosives, direct assaults, rifle bullets or evne ACME Anvils dropped on the head.

Heh.

So let it be.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 21:00|| 2008-06-17 21:00|| Front Page Top

#25 OS, I have every confidence in your creativity WRT violence. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2008-06-17 21:02|| 2008-06-17 21:02|| Front Page Top

#26 And to be very clear, even in jest and with such a very indirect, inscrutable (even humorous) way, it was a call for someon to be killed (as opposed to simply die), and thus was over the line.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 21:07|| 2008-06-17 21:07|| Front Page Top

#27 Violence? Moi? Noooo.

I'm just a harmless old teddy bear.

Heh heh.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-17 21:10|| 2008-06-17 21:10|| Front Page Top

#28 OS, I wasn't distressed to redact your comment. I saw the humor but I also saw that it was over the line. No worries.

Posted by Steve White 2008-06-17 22:17|| 2008-06-17 22:17|| Front Page Top

#29 Shows what happens when you let a self-proclaimed lib have any power of any sort: it goes straight to their head.

I thought my hat size grew today.

Posted by Steve White 2008-06-17 22:19|| 2008-06-17 22:19|| Front Page Top

#30 Thaimble, not smrt, k?

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