Thread: Court marshall or not?

So what do you guys think? Seal gives a terrorist a fat lip and 3 of the seal members are now facing court marshall.
What are your thoughts? Here is the story:
FOXNews.com - GOP Reps. Want Charges Dropped Against SEALs Accused of Abusing Terror Suspect

If anyone can find other articles from other websites on this matter please post them.

At a glance, the charges should be dropped. That's a no-brainer.

Jordan

I haven't even read it and I want the charges dropped. Seriously.

These days, one Biggest Crock of S***, is very short lived as it is soon to be replaced by a Bigger Crock of S***, but, this one might hold the title for a while; a close runner up in the terrorist category would be the civil trial our Meerkat look-a-like Attorney General, Eric Holder has set up.

These terrorists are beyond anything we the protected can imagine...we've heard what they do...they cut off heads, limbs; beat people to death, stone women if they look the wrong way; those who oppose them get to be fed into wood chippers, feet first; set on fire and then hung for all to see, etc.

The policies and procedures for policing our own people cannot be applied to warfare as this other world culture will only interprete it as weakness...in short, they think, (and correctly so), that we are fools. What did Osama say when contemplating 911 before Bush was known to be the next President, in like words, "....Americans are Paper Tigers...their only response will be to launch a few missles at abandon sites..."

Kind of like the Patton, G.I. slapping incident; outrage and discipline, until they needed him again because things weren't going so well in the European Theater.

Three years from now, Jimmy Carter will raise at least one notch in the Best/Worse Presidents ratings....that's what I think!

How 'bout we drop the charges, execute the terrorist, fire the prosecutor, then pat these boys on the back and send them back out to do the job most Americans are too weak, cowardly or inept to do? I'd sign that petition! But prosecute our best soldiers for a bloody lip? You gotta be ****in' kidding me!

By the way, where's Obama to claim these criminal charges are irresponsible and rash? Took about an hour for the press release when the cops arrested the guy in Cambridge... Just sayin'...

It would have taken as little effort to kill him as it did to administer the fat lip, the guy is lucky he is alive. I still cant figure out how you charge a man with a crime for doing the job you sent him to do. I didnt read the story and dont care to.

I applaud and support the work that the SEALs and all the guys fighting terrorism do for us.
The article does say that the man was suspected of being a terrorist. Once we start taking the law into our own hands, no matter how justified we think we are, we go back to the lynch mob.
I am certain though, that the actions of the SEAL don't warrant a court martial.
Many years ago, it was impressed on me that an injury to a prisoner could result in a guilty man walking free.

Welcome to our new world.

Don't you know ... everyone has feelings.

Is this really an issue?

Seriously... what has this country come to?


... pardon me whilst I vomit ...

We've become a country where there are more people sympathetic to the terr... er enemy combatants than they are to the soldiers. Not to mention when (not to start politics) but when we have a president who is ok with thought we can not use the term terrorism because it offense to Muslims, than any logic used will go right out the window.

It's a sad state this country is coming to but it seems this is going to become normal.

Originally Posted by ghostonthehorizon

we can not use the term terrorism because it offense to Muslims

How about the best way to get rid of illegal aliens ...... call them undocumented . No more problem with illegals.