Comments on: The Right Needs to Step Back from the Navy SEALs Trial

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:47:34 +0000

Thanks, sir.
I'm very glad two of the Marines have been acquitted also. I'm also glad the Marines adhered to their rules and regulations. See, it doesn't bother me if we change our standards so that Marines can deliver a little smack-down of captured killers, so long as we stick to whatever standards we have.

By: William S. Hood

William S. Hood — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:55:31 +0000

Jimmie.. First, I am delighted to read that two of the three Seals on trial have been acquitted. These are, regardless of the charges leveled, true American heroes.

You have hit the proper nail squarely, Jimmie! Unfortunately, military law and "rules" have been established for decades if not centuries. Secondly, the military are by nature "traditionalists". Thirdly, our UCMJ/military law has not been modofied to adequately deal with the changes in wartfare tactics employed by our common enemies. We Americans, whether liberal or conservative, have this "traditionalist" view of our image in the world. We have always been above the sort of tactics currently in use against us. We will march our collective stubborn chins and expanded chests right into complete annihilation before considering lowering our selfrighteous standards to the level of our enimies. We have, collectively, assigned our way of life to destruction.

You cannot win a War unless you are willing to go beyond any standards set by your enemy to achieve victory. There is no integrity, no righteous image, no gentlemanly honor in War. There is only victory or defeat.

Would that no man had ever lifted the angry hand against his brother, neighbor or fellow worldy inhabitant, but that is not the case.

We fight to win the victory, or we lose the American way of life. If America loses, the world loses.

That is the way I see it.

William S. Hood

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:34:23 +0000

Then get the military to change the rules. Don't just decide not to enforce some rules because you don't like them. That's what liberals do. You want to be like that, do you?

By: Bob Fortier

Bob Fortier — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:45:13 +0000

When you are in the service and on a mission you do not dot the i's and cross the t's or you will be lost. Case in point the Navy lost a ship to the North Koreans during the Carter administration because the captain could not make a fast decision. You cannot be politically correct and fight a war and win.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:45:48 +0000

I grant that everything you say is true, Debbie. nevertheless, you do not get to choose which laws we break. The SEALs will get the trial the military regulations allow them to have and, if you are correct in all your details, they will be found not guilty and will go on to have long and illustrious careers. Maybe they'll all write books and become fabulously wealthy. I hope they do, actually.

What I do not hope is that we break the longstanding regulations by which all members of the military must adhere just because you think we should.

By: Debbie Henrie

Debbie Henrie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:55:07 +0000

They did NOT hit Abed. They chose courts martial to prove that. Matthew Mc Cabe has passed a polygraph. Most of the charges have been dropped. The Master at Arms has changed his story FIVE times. The witnesses had to be granted immunity to testify so they wouldn't get drug into this because of threats of being charged also. There has been ZERO effort to bring Abed here. THAT sir, is also a law the government is choosing to break, they are supposed to make EVERY effort to get him here because the SEALs have a right BY LAW (you know that thing you keep harping on) to face their accuser. However 2 of them are being forced to go to IRAQ on THEIR dollar. This case is so full of holes it's not even Swiss cheese. I highly recommend you read and investigate further and then discuss the RULES that are being broken by WHOM….When terrorists are given more rights than than the American troops, you bet your butt people are going to go ballistic…and you could not be more wrong that it's just the "conservatives." Please be more informed before you jump to assumptions….

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:18:08 +0000

They are not civilian standards. They are military standards right out of the UCMJ.

Like I have said many times before: if you don't like the rules, change the rules. Ignoring them is what progressives do. Is that what you are?

By: Mike Canada

Mike Canada — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:12:18 +0000

You are a fool. As a lawyer and former armed forces member I see their point. I would ask for a Court Marshall as well. These guys, God bless them, work on missions that you my friend could hardly fathom. Also, when we start hauling up civilian charges (i.e. murder, assault, battery, false imprisonment, to name a few) we make a mocker of the civilian justice system as well. Painly put, you cannot put civilian standards on soldiers or Court Marshalls such as these would be in permanent session during war time (take the Breaker Morant case during the Boer War for instance.) Go back to school on this, I think the Right has every right to question this farce. By the way – I am a registered Independent – politically speaking.