Moreover, as there is ABSOLUTELY nothing in the UCMJ or US Statutes which in any way, prohibit the burning of a "Qur'an" (intentional or otherwise)--or make it a "crime" or "offense--there is but one conclusion for this travesty of "justice:" Islam/Sharia (whereby to defame, insult, denigrate the "holy" psyhotic, murdering, pedarast "prophet," the ROP, or its objects is to practice) is being considered as trumping our Constitution...all in the name of placating, being "subservient to," and ameliorating the Islamists in Afghanistan as well as around the world.
As a Nam Vet I am beyond INCENSED over this recommendation and if even ONE of these individuals are "punished" there should be such a backlash by all Vets, their family and friends, as to make our reaction, exposing and oppostion to John Kerry in 04, pale by comparison.
Desecrating Korans, sheesh..! Scary..!
These military guys are SO stupid —they should instead have killed two badged US officers and 200 Mexicans:
THEN they could have gotten of (so far) scott free..!
Other thing to avoid at all legal costs: steroids.
The Saudi state seizes privately owned bibles and other non-Islamic texts and burns them every year with no outrage from our Hate Department.
our military is full of lifers who don't want to spoil their good thing...
I am more and more adamant that we stop having lifetime service....no one should serve that long...they get too indebted to the benefit/pension package and they'll do anything to keep their job or get a promotion....
So essentially someone put them on a garbage burning detail but forgot to mention that they should double check what they were burning?
It is the officers who ordered the books to be burned,that should be punished,not the soldiers following the orders.
“U.S. officials have said that the service members did not know what they were throwing into the burn pit and that the books were pulled out by Afghan workers before they were destroyed.”
If they didn’t know until after the fact, they shouldn’t be punished. Also, how did this get leaked to the press in the first place?
No leave for one week!