NYT/AP: Marine Arranged Shooting to Avoid Service

[DeepModem Mom]

Marine Arranged Shooting to Avoid Service
Filed at 9:26 a.m. ET


CHICAGO (AP) -- A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq persuaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit by random gang gunfire, authorities said.

The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernandez from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said.

He was charged with filing a false police report. His cousin, Juan Hernandez, 19, faces a felony weapons charge.

Moises Hernandez is back with his unit at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and the Marines are investigating the incident. His unit had returned June 5 from a six-month deployment that included a month in Iraq.

The young man's father, Ray Hernandez, said his son also had been sent to Indonesia after the devastating tsunami in December. The father said his son had seen death up close and was troubled by nightmares when he returned home....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-BRF-Shooting-Fake.html

[bushisanidiot]

1. AWOL Bush is destroying our youth, our military, and our country

he needs to get the hell out of the white house.. NOW!

[atreides1]

8. All True

But the brain dead, kool-aid drinking sheep still support him.

It will take great courage on the part of Republicans, the voters, not the politicians, to remove this man and his Repuke gang in the
U.S. Congress.

If they fail to come up with the "guts" needed, our country, our military and our youth will be destroyed.

The next time you talk to a registered Republican ask them if they support treason? Explain that as long as they support Bush and the current incarnation of the Republican party, they support treason and
war crimes.

Because that's what I've been doing, and they don't like it, but it gets them to start thinking.

[meganmonkey]

2. The desperation....

I am so sorry, soldiers, that you have to go through this.

:cry:

[Botany]

3. 2 more victims of this unneeded war.

How can * even sleep? Good idea * get us into a war in Iraq. :grr:

[quaway]

4. its very sad

but the same type of stuff happens in every war.

Some people are just scared, this really doesn't seem to have anything to do with the soldier's opinion about the legitimacy/illegitimacy of the war in Iraq.

[RethugAssKicker]

5. Poor kid.

Desperation; what a hell of a thing!

[gratuitous]

6. Why didn't he just go work on a political campaign in Alabama?

That seems to be a sure ticket out of one's military obligation, at least for some people.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Very good, gratuitous! nt