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Rocketman ~(Ä)~ - 09 May 2008 12:13 PM

w.rabbit: “We also know that the superior who gave the order got off scott-free and we know that Vela was tried in Iraq, and brought to trial light years faster than you would see such a case tried in the US.  Smell that?

Smells like a pile of toxic crap if you ask me. I’m not going to try to second guess what each of these men was thinking.  I know what it’s like to be under that kind of strain.  What I do know is, I will err on the side of the GI every time.  The available data would have to be clearly against Vela, and I have not read that yet, for me to think otherwise.

Unless I see a lot more incriminatiing evidence forthcoming, I say Vela was railroaded and should be pardoned.  If you want to let this guy be used as political fodder, then yes, we will agree to disagree.”

While I Agree ...

That something just aint right here, if Vela pulled the trigger, he pulled the trigger.  Perhaps Roy has something with his speculation that maybe Vela had some kind of “track record with his unit”.  Maybe we’ll never know ALL the facts.

BUT ...

Who the HELL is using this for “political fodder”?

Not a single one of US who ever served.  AND, the anti-war pukes don’t need an excuse to accuse Americans of “war crimes”.

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Rocket,

C’mon.  I said, “If you want to let this guy be used as political fodder...”, meaning, if you ain’t supporting him, you’re OK with letting others using him as political fodder, because using him they are.  There was no justice here, Vela is being used as a pawn.  The verdict and sentence were a political offering to the Iraqis. 

BTW, screw the “anti-war pukes”.  That’s not what I call them, but it will do for now.

Leave It To ...

The moronic, left-wing unwrapt to cite a libelous hit piece:

“Three snipers with exemplary military records from the 1st Battalion of the 25th Infantry Division’s 501st Regiment were charged in Khudair’s killing. They were tried by the military judicial system in Iraq beginning in 2007. But the most important question raised by his death remains unanswered. Why would these elite American soldiers kill an unarmed prisoner in cold blood? The answer: pressure from their commanding officers to pump up a statistic straight out of America’s last long war against an intractable insurgency.”

You military-hating pukes need to move on.  IF any of YOU paid ANY attention to all of the AMERICANS killed because they hesitated for a nanosecond before firing, you might have a little more respect for the men in the trenches.

You ässhats make me sick.

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wrapper - 10 May 2008 10:26 PM

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver


May 9, 2008 | Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle pump house along the banks of the Euphrates. Each day at midmorning, he would start the seven-horsepower pump to water his crops.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/09/snipers/

He used to grow turnups.

The problem was, they kept “turning up”. So, he quit raising vegetables and joined al qaeda. As FNG, he was given the bird dog assignment of finding the hated American infidel’s sniper blind.  Genei rubbed them the wrong way.

A call from Obama bin Hidin was intercepted. He said you were doing a wonderful job as al qaeda’s morale putz. If you survive recruit training, he promises you a choice assignment servicing war camels (with your mouth).

POS putz.

wrapper - 03 May 2008 12:30 PM

It’s a tragedy all right.  A tragedy that the architects of this FUBAR will never have to answer for their criminal stupidity.

The Treason Media and the Party of Treason have certainly delayed victory in Iraq with their duplicity and falsehoods but we will still win.  The denial of our achievements there by this combo may put the Treason Media out of business all together.  Used car salesmen have more respect than the media and its campaign of disinformation and misinformation about Iraq is one reason.

Had there been a media concerned with Truth rather than destroying the President we would have seen Pulitzer Prises awarded for stories about the stunning decision by Libya to turn over an entire program for the development of nuclear, biological and chemincal weapons which the “Intelligence” agencies DID NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT.  It was a by-product of having a President with the courage to confront out enemies.  The “Colonel” understood that a real MAN was in the White HOuse and would not take the crap these penny ante dictators felt like handing out.

Once again strength paid dividends.

The entire editorial board of the NY Times should be behind bars.