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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow do you folks feel about the Navy Seal trial?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/navy-wont-drop-murder-charges-against-seal-edward-gallagher-despite-bombshell-testimony?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fnational%20%28Internal%20-%20US%20Latest%20-%20Text%29&utm_content=Yahoo%20Search%20ResultsBombshell. Remember, the new witness was given immunity.
underpants
(182,279 posts)Heard it on NPR this afternoon
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)then he is likely guilty.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)By the source, you can see the far right has taken up this cause. The disgraced Bernie Kerik and Sebastian Gorka have championed the cause. Not the kind of people an innocent man uses to defend himself.
2naSalit
(86,057 posts)trying to throw the trial by the witness confession, a witness with immunity. They are making a mockery of the system on purpose because they don't respect the law in the first place.
EarnestPutz
(2,087 posts)....underage (by our standards) ISIS combatant and leaves the scene. The buddy diagnoses the stab wound as being non-life threatening and proceeds to euthanize the young man to spare him from torture by our ally of convenience at that time. I don't know if the victim was conscious at the time, but suffocation can't have been pleasant under any circumstances.
So this Navy Seal hero shows up in court, clean shaven, spotless Dress White Navy uniform holding hands with his pretty wife, chest full of medals and the furrowed brow and serious countenance of a professional warrior, tip of the spear and all that. How do you think I feel?
I am outraged at the ability of some people to justify anything, including murder, in the name of our precious national security. Both men, the one who confessed and the one who didn't, should be prosecuted.
Can't wait until we hear what that idiot Lindsey Graham, who used to be a military prosecutor, has to say about all this. I'm sure he will gloss over any prospect of the military justice system being perverted to protect "one of our own".
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)and handcuffed Iraqis and sent photographs home for their wives to make coffee table picture books for entertainment, or whatever the wives did with the photos. Doesnt take bravery for three or four armed seals to beat up handcuffed Iraqis.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)But if I were the judge, I'd either:
Want to hold the medic totally accountable (and give him the option of ruining his own life for his buddy)
Or, I'd offer both of them manslaughter , and see what shakes loose...
The medic would NOT have been faced with that choice, had the seal NOT tried to kill that kid for no good goddamn reason, is all I'm sayin...
And so, with no other option available, I agree with the Navys decision...this Seal is ultimately responsible for the circumstances of this kids death, despite what the medic tried to do in response.
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)The medic would NOT have been faced with that choice, had the seal NOT tried to kill that kid for no good goddamn reason, is all I'm sayin...
Its not like a Marine unit that has Navy Corpsman assigned to it. As a general rule Special Operation medics are considered as combatants.