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Bin Laden’s Driver Given Disgracefully Light Sentence
It looks likes smoking or selling marijuana can get you a longer sentence than working for Al-Qaeda and being caught on the battlefield with surface-to-air missiles in your trunk.
A military jury gave Osama bin Laden’s driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors’ request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe.
Salim Hamdan’s sentence of 5 1/2 years, including five years and a month already served at Guantanamo Bay, fell far short of the 30 years to life that prosecutors wanted. It now goes for mandatory review to a Pentagon official who can shorten the sentence but not extend it.
If this is all we’re gonna do to terrorists like Hamden then why the dog and pony show? Why go through all the Supreme Court nonsense and trials if all we’re going to do is let these people out?
As careful as Osama bin Laden is about who he allows in to his circle, it’s absurd to believe that he didn’t know his driver very well. Hamden was and is a member of Al-Qaeda who’s as responsible as Bin Laden himself for 9/11 and all related attacks.
Canada Deports First Military Deserter Back To The U.S.
Canada has deported the first of an estimated 200 U.S. military deserters back to America. 25-year old Robin Long exausted his last remaining appeal this week for refugee status in Canada, and was promptly shipped back to the U.S.
Robin Long, 25, was removed a day after a Federal Court judge in Vancouver rejected his claim that he would suffer irreparable harm if returned to the United States. He fled across the border in 2005 as his army tank unit was preparing to deploy to Iraq.
Canada is right to send deserters back. Cowards like Long are a disgrace to this nation and deserve to face justice. Over 1 million men and women have served their country honorably in Iraq, but Long was too much of a coward to do his part. People like him don’t deserve to live under the freedom they were so fortunate to be born under.
U.S. military law states that desertion during a time of war is punishable by death. Unfortunately, Long is unlikely to get the death penalty but will probably serve time in a federal prison.
After he finishes his prison sentence he should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported from the United States forever.
Coward: US soldier refuses to serve in ‘illegal Iraq war’
Meet Matthis Chiroux, the latest darling of the far-left and an active duty Sergeant in the U.S. Army. After crying openly while listening to the testimony of the disgraceful “Iraq Veterans Against The War”, Chiroux held a press conference and proudly announced his decision not to deploy to Iraq as ordered, because he cannot go against his “core values” and participate in the “illegal occupation”.
“I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,” Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.
“My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation… I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation,” he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.
Chiroux’s announcement came minutes after the far-left Democrats who make up the “Progressive Caucus” held hearings about ending the Iraq war. The centerpiece of the hearings was testimony from members of the anti-war group, “Iraq Veterans Against The War.”
The hearings descended into an orgy of anti-American/anti-military sentiment which consisted of a litany of falsehoods, mischaracterizations, and outright propaganda.
The ex-soldiers accused the military of “lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis.”
One veteran offered to “name names” of officers in his chain-of-command who he believed were guilty of crimes.
The entire episode was much like and in some ways worse than John Kerry’s famous testimony before Congress during the Vietnam war. Kerry accused the military of war crimes, including the cutting off of ears, and razing villages in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan (”Jinjiss Kon” if you want to say it like Kerry).
Like Kerry, these Iraq veterans didn’t complete their service, accept their medals, and go on with life. Instead, they chose to disgrace their country and sully the reputation of the U.S. military in front of an all-to-eager bunch of left-wing Senators.
People like Sgt. Chiroux are a disgrace to the uniform they still wear, and he’s wrong to refuse to go to Iraq. When you join the military your job is to go where the President sends you. You don’t get to decide which wars your willing to participate in.
Chiroux has been ordered to report for duty in Iraq in June, and when he fails to show up he will be prosecuted. In a perfect world, Chiroux would be sent to prison, stripped of his citizenship, and sent elsewhere.
-Chris Jones
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz: Portrait of a Traitor
In today’s New York Times I was disturbed to read about another left-wing hero/American traitor. Every once in a while the military finds itself with a turncoat within its ranks and that person is usually dealt with swiftly. Unfortunately, the turncoat usually does significant damage before he is discovered.
That was the situation with Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz who was stationed at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Diaz enlisted in the Army as a 17-year-old high-school dropout. He had earned his college degree while serving as an artillery sergeant and then completed law school. In 10 years as a Navy lawyer, his performance evaluations had been outstanding.
With another promotion all but certain and his 6-month tour at Gitmo nearing its end, Lt. Cmdr. Diaz decided to throw it all away and betray his country.
Sitting at a secure desktop computer, he printed out page after page of classified information. When he was done, Diaz had assembled a document 39 pages long. In tiny type, it listed names, prison serial numbers and other information for each of the 551 men who were then being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
For nearly two weeks after printing the list, he kept it locked inside the safe in his office. He later trimmed the pages down to the size of index cards, and slipped the pages inside a Valentine’s Day card he had purchased at the base store.
Diaz then mailed the classified documents to the New York offices of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a left-wing legal-advocacy group that was among the most zealous opponents of the Bush administration’s Guantanamo policy.
The center was then suing the government on a range of sensitive issues including the Patriot Act, immigrants’ rights, and of course Guantanamo.
To their credit the Center turned the documents over to the Justice Department. A short investigation by the F.B.I. revealed that Diaz had printed the documents from his computer and had left his fingerprints all over them.
This past May, Matthew Diaz became the only United States serviceman to be convicted and imprisoned for an act of insubordination directed at the Bush administration’s detention policies.
On May 18 this year, after a weeklong trial, a panel of seven naval officers convicted Diaz on four of five counts, including one of disclosing secret defense information that “could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation.”
After a few crocodile tears in front of a jury he was only sentenced to 6 months in prison, a dishonorable discharge, and permanent loss of his law license.
The article in the NY Times portrays Diaz as some kind of martyr who wanted to do the right thing no matter what the cost.
When you join the military you follow orders and shut the hell up. You certainly don’t release documents that have been deemed classified because YOU think they shouldn’t have been.
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz is a disgrace to the uniform he wore and to his country. He is extremely lucky to have only received six months in prison, because 10 years would have been far more appropriate.
We have a big enough problem with liberal activists trying to undermine the war effort from the outside without having those people do damage from the inside as well.
By Chris Jones
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