[Coldwater Creek]

we’re a Navy family, but on this one I want to hear all of the evidence before making a judgment call. The Seal that I saw talking to the press yesterday, should just keep his council. His career is over, but he isn’t helping his case by speaking out public ally.

[sam_paine]

What’d he say?

[July4]

Your post is good advice to any accused.

However, I’m frustrated about the dearth of facts available to the public (and, apparently, the defense) in this case. The last article I read suggested that one Seal punched one terrorist in the stomach. Bad form, maybe, but hardly worth the drama I’m seeing in the news.

[USS Alaska]

His career is over,

If true, that's a damn shame on our military.

My son is a Captain in the Navy and he worked with the Seals {he is not a Seal}, and he told me that he'd put them up against any special forces unit in the world.

The hard work that these guys go through to become a Seal, and then to be destroyed by their own government is too much to be believed.

[BP2]

> we’re a Navy family, but on this one I want to hear
> all of the evidence before making a judgment call.

I agree, but all things being equal, I'll lean toward the idea that the Seals are the target of a Obama-driven policy aimed to show the Muslim world that he won't "tolerate" Abu Ghraib-type abuse — even though that's not what the Seal did, and even though the terrorist probably injured himself to get the Navy Seal in trouble, as is recommended in the "terrorist handbook."

IF the local commander was lied to, that honestly deserves attention.

But in terms of any alleged abuse by the Seals, the terrorist deserved the same fate as the Americans he killed.

"And We prescribed to them in it that life is for life, and eye for eye, and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and (that there is) reprisal in wounds; but he who foregoes it, it shall be an expiation for him; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unjust." - Quran, 5.45