NuRayZ said:
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.
HUGE difference between what you’re implying and what really happened. Had they accepted the non-judicial punishment, a ranking military official would have sentenced them as he saw fit with no oversight, no hearing, and no chance of appeal. Punishment could range from demotion to correctional custody and goes on their service record. If they’re innocent, accepting such an action is stupid. The fact that it was even offered to begin with proves that the government has very little, if any, evidence against them.
Think of it this way. If you were arrested and knew you were innocent would you let the police officer sentence you or would you demand a trial in which they had to prove you were guilty and give you the chance to defend yourself? Yeah, exactly. No brainer.
NuRayZ said:
they requested the court-martial, not obama. If you are going to blame obama, you might as well blame everyone else down the chain of command who allowed this to happen; Seal leaders, commanders, everyone. Also their charges include, failing to safegaurd a detainee and making false statements. As in, beating up a defenseless person (terrorist or not) and then lying about it. It’s a shame their boss didn’t just look the other way; but that means we should blame obama?
In case you didn’t know, all 3 passed polygraph tests in which they were asked whether or not they lied or abused him. One has already been acquitted.
I blame Obama because of the policy shift in how terrorists are to be treated. Obama laid down a drastic change in policy on how we engage and capture terrorists and from the start almost the entire military chain of command has protested it. These guys were to made examples of in front of the world and everyone was afraid of the consequences of stopping it. Had it been buried and discovered later by the media it would have become Obama’s Abu Ghraib and someone who did the morally right thing would have lost their career over it. You know it, I know it, the commanders knew, and so these guys were hung out to dry over it.
NuRayZ said:
If you read the rest of that article, by fox news a trusted news source (lol); you will also notice that in 2004 a similar event happened:
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The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.So Bush is a terrorist lover now too eh?
Yeah see, those were actual abuses in which the prisoner was in US custody the entire time. They also had evidence that the people who were tried were the ones guilty of abusing the prisoners. Very different situation.