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2009-12-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2009-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Nothing better happen to these men.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-12-07 00:56|| 2009-12-07 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 This sad and disgusting business should have never gotten out of the blocks. A quiet phone call should have gone down the chain of command. The fact the call never went out indicates that legal action is endorsed at the highest levels of the civilian controlled military. Very sad. Very sad indeed. My fear is this action may devekio into some type of military torture prosecution.

If the administratin was upset that a few cadets slept through Barry's presentation at West Point, they'll really be shocked over the attitudes that are brewing within the Special Operations Community toward this US Navy Seal affair.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-07 05:01|| 2009-12-07 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 It's like this administration is crippling their recruiting on purpose.

Posted by gorb 2009-12-07 06:45|| 2009-12-07 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 "This is much more involved than the defense would lead you to believe," Silkman said.

There must be more than somebody would lead me to believe. If something doesn't make sense you don't know the whole story, and on the surface this doesn't make sense.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-07 07:50|| 2009-12-07 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 After what the man they caught did I would think a punch in the mouth was short of what most ppl would have done.

Posted by chris">chris 2009-12-07 08:02|| 2009-12-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 if you do somthing like this
(warning graphic)
http://www.blackwatervictims.com/pics/Bridge.jpg
I think a punch in the gut is getting off easy.

Posted by linker 2009-12-07 08:50|| 2009-12-07 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 A quiet phone call should have gone down the chain of command. The fact the call never went out indicates that legal action is endorsed at the highest levels of the civilian controlled military.

In the Vanity Fair piece on Blackwater (Xe), Eric Prince said as much. He's retiring to teach history.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-12-07 10:54|| 2009-12-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 What's the point of this court martial?
On one side you have three men who deserve nothing less than than to be treated as heroes, who undertook a dangerous mission and successfully accomplished it. (If it wasn't dangerous, why use SEALS?) On the other side you have a barbarian POS whose playbook tells them to make accusation of ill treatment as a matter of course.
If these guys are found guilty, might as well pack up and go home. No one is going to put themselves in a position where they will undertake to put their lives in danger only to be thanked with a court martial.
The guy had a fat lip!!
I've seen guys with worse than that after a football game and no one was charged.
What were they supposed to do, put themselves in the same situation that the contractors were in and hope for the best that they wouldn't be strung up like in linker's post above.
Andd how the hell can you be charged with "dereliction of duty" when they accomplished their mission.
What a joke.

Posted by tipper 2009-12-07 11:13|| 2009-12-07 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 The same military that takes a general who screws up Iraq and makes him Chief of Staff.

Posted by Solomon Cholurt6546 2009-12-07 12:45|| 2009-12-07 12:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Time for a line from Dirty Harry:

"Hell, anybody can tell I didn't do that to him!"
"Yeah? How?"
"He looks too damn good!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-12-07 13:01|| 2009-12-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#11 no prisoners, no accusations!

Posted by Xenophon 2009-12-07 15:26|| 2009-12-07 15:26|| Front Page Top

#12 A witch hunt by the administration. For what purpose I can't imagine. Screw with our military too much and you won't have one. Enlistments and re-enlistments will disappear. But maybe that is the purpose of the administration.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-07 17:39|| 2009-12-07 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 I think you've nailed it John QC, the Obama ideal is to detroy America, and weakening the Military is a crucial step to do just that.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-12-07 18:20|| 2009-12-07 18:20|| Front Page Top

#14 You right - to OBumble and his friends - destroying the morale of the military is a feature - not a bug.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-12-07 18:22|| 2009-12-07 18:22|| Front Page Top

#15 This is the product of pissant O-6/O-7s who are more concerned about promotion than their people. That's why the declined NJP and asked for a Court Martial. NJP would have been hidden. This will push the scumsucking O-6/O-7s who allowed this to happen, hiding behind ROE's, out in the open and twisting in the wind.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2009-12-07 19:47|| 2009-12-07 19:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Couple this with the obambi's work against the CIA and you can connect the dots as has been earlier stated, he is tearing down the USA.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2009-12-07 22:45|| 2009-12-07 22:45|| Front Page Top

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