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Originally Posted by speeder
So why is he being court martialed, Einstein? Must be those liberals in the upper ranks of the military command wanting to hurt the moral of the troops, right? 
Surely they didn't do it just to piss-off a bunch of morons at your local bar. The bottom line is that the original cover story was a waste of breath, as presented here. It is bull schit. It doesn't pass the kindergarden teacher smell test as a lie, and in fact the shooter (Vela) has given up on that story and switched to the Mai Lai defense of "following orders". He now admits his wrong-doing and supposedly "feels terrible" about it. Why the mule would someone "feel terrible" about shooting an enemy combatant in a war zone?? They feel great when they do that, as they should. He was unarmed, the story is BS, (guy was not yelling), he just stumbled upon their position and caught them by surprise sleeping. They killed him and planted a weapon on him, then made-up a really weak story that you are sucking on.
This is the reason why intelligent people do not believe in starting unnecessary wars or invading the wrong country. Experienced soldiers know that even if things go well, terrible things happen in war. And things have not gone well. The reasons and blame for that have been covered extensively.
"No man is so blind as he who refuses to see..."  |
What would be the senerio in which
YOU would go to war? What would it take for you to fight to the death for your country and sacrifice your family?