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West Still Fighting For the Ten

Akicita4 Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 1:50 PM
First, thank you Diana for putting a spot light on the gross injustice that has been done to these men by the "Justice" system of our federal government and military. The more Americans that learn about these cases, the better chance there will be of putting pressure where it needs to be to get these men released with pardons or at least clemency. The conviction of one of the Ten, 1LT Michael Behenna for example, was one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice achieved by the despicable and illegal actions of prosecutors (withholding exculpatory evidence from the defense until after he had been convicted and sentenced) that I know of. Then a jury and judge that had zero combat experience convicted him. What ever happened to a...

When President Obama said it was time to turn the page on Iraq, he should have also declared his intention to close the book on the lingering, festering injustices the U.S. government has perpetrated on 10 American veterans of the Iraq war still incarcerated in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth.

As noted in this column, these Americans are the war's forgotten men, soldiers trapped by restrictive, legalistic rules of engagement on an ultra-fluid battlefield where the enemy knew no rules. For killing this enemy and, it must also be admitted, surviving to live another day, these soldiers were sentenced to...

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