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Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby Wickan » Sun 22 Oct 2006, 03:46:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n Thursday, Sergeant Ricky Clousing, a born-again Christian who had gone AWOL after serving in Iraq and seeing how the Iraqi people were treated, was sentenced to 11 months confinement in a courts-martial hearing in Fort Bragg, NC. An article in the New York Times described what made Clousing decide it was completely immoral to keep fighting in Iraq:

He said he saw American soldiers shoot and kill an unarmed Iraqi teenager, and rode in an Army Humvee that sideswiped Iraqi cars and shot an old man’s sheep for fun — both incidents Sergeant Clousing reported to superiors. He said his work as an interrogator led him to conclude that the occupation was creating a cycle of anti-American resentment and violence. After months of soul-searching on his return to Fort Bragg, Sergeant Clousing, 24, failed to report for duty one day...


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Re: Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby The_Toecutter » Sun 22 Oct 2006, 03:55:19

This man should be commended as a hero for standing up to those who defy our Constitution.
The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the old growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Sun 22 Oct 2006, 15:01:05

And here I thought the American blood had thinned.
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Re: Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby NEOPO » Sun 22 Oct 2006, 16:46:03

TC please stop saying the "C" word....
Just let it die man...let it die ;-)
I like this new person Wickan.
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Re: Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby The_Toecutter » Tue 24 Oct 2006, 03:32:17

That "C" word is becoming more politically incorrect as of late. :twisted:
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Re: Soldier sentenced to 11 months

Unread postby Doly » Tue 24 Oct 2006, 03:34:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Toecutter', 'T')hat "C" word is becoming more politically incorrect as of late. :twisted:


Like Bush says, it's just a goddamn piece of paper. Why all the fuss about it? :-D
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