Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

foxnews.com ^ | 11/24/09 | Rowan Scarborough

[DuncanWaring]

Remember Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean?

[wmfights]

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Good Lord! Somebody should have told this piece of garbage he's lucky they didn't kill him.

[Oldexpat]

Our military is being overrun by lawyers in the field. The troops are starting to loose morale with all the legalistic limits as well as rules of engagement.
They no longer feel that their leaders are on their side in these wars.
If there is any unit that you don’t want to jeopardize it is the Seals and Delta Force, because they are the ones that may need to pull an administration out of a tight spot..like the Maersk Alabama. Zero lost a lot of face with them in that operation..and it just might not come off the same way next time.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Patton being court-matialed (sic)

Patton was reprimanded and lost his command. He was not court-martialed.

[kaehurowing]

What’s even more ironic is that even though these SEALs will have to go through a military court-martial, the terrorist they caught will get to have a full civil jury trial on American soil.

[MountainDad]

This is SO BS!!!!

When Fallujah-1 was going on in April '04, my kid said when he was lobbing motars across the river, AT THAT VERY BRIDGE, he would say "this is for the Blackwater guys" with every shell he dropped into the tube!

So is he gonna be charged for that too?

I'm so pissed!

[skeeter]

Yes I do. Their treatment was a disgrace - the border was Bush's moral blind spot.

But there can be no doubt that we would not be prosecuting was heroes under his watch.

I was directing my sarcasm at the above-it-all crowd that shows up to tut-tut criticism of The One.

[SandRat]

PCism run rampant.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -- John Adams

[skeeter]

was=war

[USMA '71]

It is this kind of foolishness that makes Vince Flynn's first book...”Term Limits” more and more plausible every day. If you haven't read it - do so. The plot could very well be acted out in real life if this exercise with the SEALs turns out badly.

[MestaMachine]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393662/posts

[Ancient Drive]

WTF??? I pray our nation survives this retard commie!

[G Larry]

Taking prisoners is no longer an option!

[Tallguy]

Ike had the power to send generals home to the states where they reverted to their pre-war ranks. Lloyd Fredendahl, the man that Patton replaced in command of II Corps during the North African Campaign, got sent home rather abruptly, as did Terry Allen, the commander of 1st Infantry Division. Patton was already a general officer by 1940, so he probably would have retained his 2-stars.

[Aloysius88]

Please, no. This is too stupid to comprehend.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

Are you a “Scanner”? :-)

[norton]

"Like Patton being court-matialed for slapping a soldier."

Given the time and place, I don't think there would have been much of an outcry if he'd slapped a German soldier.
"Objective Amber" did not even meet the basic (Geneva) requirements of a soldier.

Oh!
Wait: Neither do any of the detainees in Gitmo, or soon to be in New York.

[BobL]

Things like this certainly happened under Bush, also...but it would be difficult seeing Palin treating our troops this way.

[smedley64]

Muzzie terrorists the world over must be laughing their butts off at us. If I was one of them, I know I'd be laughing at how suicidal the stoooopid "politically correct" Americans are, and how easy it is to get them to turn on their own soldiers. If I was a muzzie terrorist and cut off parts of an American and burned him, then hung him from a bridge allowing young and old alike to make fun of his dead corpse, I'd be a hero to my fellow islamo-demons. Meanwhile, back in America, we keep track of how many fat lips a torturer/murderer was given by the Americans who caught him. We're doomed if this idiocy continues.

I realize our system of justice is one of the things that makes America better, but living up to a higher standard can go too far, and this is one of those cases. The satanic little killer got a fat lip. Waaaaaaaah. He's lucky he's even alive. I can't take much more of this national suicide called political correctness.

This BS started under Bush, and Obama's boys are continuing where Bush left off. It's sickening.

[Smokin' Joe]

The SEALS captured the guy.

Tremendous!

They must have been following orders, or he wouldn't be around to complain.

Remarkable self-restraint should be awarded a medal, not a boatlaod of merde. (pardon my French...)