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Army May As Well Put Our Soldiers in Straightjackets

curmudgeon10 Wrote: Apr 27, 2012 6:08 PM

that greatest generation freely shot prisoners, and none were punished. they too were betrayed by their leaders, who sacrificed their lifes unnecessarily, and then gave away the gains of the war. some things change. others dont. our traitorus leaders now have progressed to intentionally losing wars, but at least our soldiers are brutally punished for seeming to be trying to hard. hope and change.

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Army May As Well Put Our Soldiers in Straightjackets

To keep former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna behind bars until 2024 for the "unpremeditated murder" of an insurgent during the war in Iraq, U.S. military prosecutors have resorted to strange and disturbing twists of law, logic and morality. They were all on display again this week in Behenna's final plea before the military's highest court of appeals in Washington, D.C. It was enough to make the gold eagle on top of the American flag in the courtroom shake and then hang its head.

Or so I imagined while listening intently as questions from the five civilian judges began to drill...

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