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2008-11-28 Home Front: WoT

Army deserter seeks asylum in Germany over Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2008-11-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 OK, this guy got his 5 seconds of fame, so the hell with him. Asshole doesn't give a damn about his word and there's no backbone to the U.S. Government to do anything about it. Just don't let him back into the U.S., we are inundated by cowards who are still here.

Posted by Xenophon 2008-11-28 00:56|| 2008-11-28 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The price of desertion should be exile i.e. to be stripped of citizenship and never set foot in the country again.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-28 05:40|| 2008-11-28 05:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The price of desertion should be exile i.e. to be stripped of citizenship and never set foot in the country again

In the good old times it was twelve ounces of lead.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-28 08:00|| 2008-11-28 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ...due to the legacy of the post-war trials of Nazi officials, notably in Nuremberg in 1945-1949.

Except, the Nazis were tried for acting outside the framework of law. That UN authorization paperwork kicks the legs out of any rational 'illegal' war arguement, but that will never shut down the whining. The conduct of the war, regardless of slander of the MSM, has been exemplary compared to all other such historical events [not to be confused with Fantasyland they inhabit] to include an unprecedented number of investigations and courts martial proceedings done within the military establishments own auspices. The problem for the rest of the world, is that the American effort will become the bench mark by which all other will ineffectively be held to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-28 08:02|| 2008-11-28 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I would almost bet that there's a "Fraulein" involved here.

Posted by Sonny Ebbeamp1305 2008-11-28 08:18|| 2008-11-28 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I would almost bet that there's a "Fraulein" involved here

More likely a "Hinzman"

Posted by regular joe 2008-11-28 09:29|| 2008-11-28 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Bright Pebbles is on the right track: Have the MPs pick him up (ABSOLUTELY LEGAL under the SOFA)and bring him back to the base. Discharge him on the spot and march him to the gate with nothing more than whatever personal effects he can carry and toss him out the gate with the warning that if he returns to the US he will be arrested on sight.

And then walk away. No press conferences, no long speeches, no nothing.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-11-28 10:13|| 2008-11-28 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 A bit of parsing...

When I read and heard about ~~terrorists~~ people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing

READ and HEARD? WTF?

Never actually faced the enemy and now is blubbering over combat that he did NOT engage in? Fricken gutless REMF. There are supply who did more and they aren't whinging like some little lefty bitch.

I;d liek to drill him: *which* people were we doing this to?

Idiot - the BAD GUYS were the ones being shredded, and we do go to great lengths to insure that its just the bad guys.

This douchebag doesn't realize some people just need killin. Like AQI.

Protecting the good people in Iraq from the jackals (by killing said jackals) is something to feel GOOD about, not ashamed. Its what WON the war there.

This guy is a human turd. Try him, toss him in the stockade in Germany for a few months at hard labor. Then give him the Big Chicken Dinner over there, and kick him out the gate with his prison stripes on and nothing else, and bar him from EVER entering the USA.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-28 12:14|| 2008-11-28 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 "Congratulations! You've just won an all expense paid trip to Hotel Taj Mahal! Yes you are leaving right now. Yes she can come if she wants to; ma'am?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-28 12:41|| 2008-11-28 12:41|| Front Page Top

#10 y'all are far too kind...desertion in a time of war calls for a short rope & a high tree - problem solved. My $.02 anyhow.

Posted by Clererong Oppressor of the Algonquins aka Broadhead6 2008-11-28 12:43|| 2008-11-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#11 I suspect that the amount to sympathy he is about to receive is a whole lot less than he expects.
Reasons?
1) We won in Iraq
2) The SOFA agreement has been approved
3) Mumbai has reminded everyone (including Germans) that some people deserve to be ripped to shreds.

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-11-28 13:11|| 2008-11-28 13:11|| Front Page Top

#12 They can keep him.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-28 22:41|| 2008-11-28 22:41|| Front Page Top

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