Posted on 03/04/2010 6:07:20 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Two Republican lawmakers are seeking to have charges dropped against three Navy SEALs facing court-martial for accusations of abusing a terror suspect arrested for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.
The SEALs -- Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Julio Huertas -- were part of a team that in September 2009 captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, the suspected plotter behind the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA contractors in Fallujah in 2004.
...Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind. and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. held a news conference Thursday with McCabe and more than a dozen retired Navy SEALs and other special forces personnel.
"They did their job. It's our turn now," Rohrabacher said. "We've got to do our job, which is back them up and insist that this court martial be canceled."
"These people are laying their lives on the line every single day and they cannot go into a combat situation with kid gloves on," Burton added.
Burton and Human Events, a conservative publication, have gathered petitions with more than 150,000 signatures demanding that the charges be dropped against the men.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"The insanity could be stopped at any time,” Puckett added. "This is a knee jerk reaction to their refusal to accept a lower form of discipline which would have ended their careers and would not have given them a fair hearing because guilt had already been established in the minds of senior people in the chain of command.
"There are so many ways in the military system to handle this short of court martial," he continued. "That's all we're asking."
Hate to say it, but even if the charges are dropped or they’re found not guilty at court-martial, their careers are still pretty much over.
I can’t properly express in words, how mad I am about this.
“Burton and Human Events, a conservative publication, have gathered petitions with more than 150,000 signatures demanding that the charges be dropped against the men.”
PETITION HERE:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34775
Please go to the link and sign petition. It’s the least we can do.
You can sign the petition — I posted link in my post 4.
Thanks, SmartInsight. I originally posted the link to the Human Events petition... a couple of months ago? But let’s get more signatures!!
This is an important story IMHO folks - the deliberate demoralization of the Best is the Commie-In-Charge (CIC) plan to destroy our military ASAP!
It goes deep, onyx, I know... too deep for words.
Adding insult to injury, rubbing salt in a wound, nah.
Not sufficient. Something in the chain of command that allowed these charges is very rotten.
It’s about time they come to the seals aid..Drop the charges!
Ping
Thanks La Enchiladita. This is the right thing to do — also a great approach for kicking the Demwits to the curb in November!
Way past time!!! Call your Representatives and demand that they join in on this!!! I called mine months ago!
I join you in my outrage that this national disgrace is taking place. Patriots in Arlington must be rolling in their graves at this diabolical outrage being perpetrated by Liberal sewer slime in office.
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Bump
“vote # 123,117”
Excellent!
People are voting. Now it’s at:
Current Petition Signature Count: 123,142
I usually not much for signing petitions, but this is one petition that everyone must sign. The Seals capture a major terrorist and instead of medals and recognition, they are Court Martialed based on the lying statement of the terrorist — this is more than an outrage.
LINK TO PETITION (again):
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34775
Done. Thank you for posting this. Free the Seals!
I can’t properly express in words, how mad I am about this.
I know how you feel...this is one of those news stories that i have to turn the channel or not read about...it effects me physically.
Yep. I read at SupportTheSEALs.com that just by being charged they will never get a decent assignment ever again. It is just disgusting.
Huertas served three tours in Afghanistan with mucho action and decorations. Now because of a hit to the gut of a mass murderer, America will lose a superior fighting man that we paid a fortune to craft and who put his life on the line. JAGs are sissy pricks, plain and simple. They need to be fired. (ex. Lindsay Graham was a JAG).
signed it!
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