"Missing Marine mystery deepens: Pentagon investigates whether kidnapping

[Longhorn]

is a hoax"

I don't know what to think! This certainly caused plenty of agony and it sure sounded like his family believed his life was in danger.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5387977

[Wonk]

1. Weird. nt

[Longhorn]

2. kick

[Red State Rebel]

3. There is definitely something funky about this whole thing...

Makes you wonder if he defected and then tried to cover his butt with the kidnapping story....

[Redhead488]

4. I sure hope he didn't do that...

[Dhalgren]

5. I hope he did!

I would be very glad if he has voluntarily skipped out and is now in safety (Lebanon, maybe?) than to think of him being held against his will under the threat of a beheading! Jesus! Let's hope he is somewhere sipping coffee with freinds and reading emails from his relieved parents.

[Redhead488]

8. I hope he did not put his parents through the agony

of thinking he was going to be beheaded if he was safe all along.

[Dhalgren]

9. Every parent with a child over there

is going through exactly the same "agony" every day.

[Redhead488]

10. Not true

This is TOTALLY different.

[Dhalgren]

12. B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!

[Red State Rebel]

13. It's one thing...

to worry about a child over there knowing that out of over 100,000 soldiers we are losing about 4 a day, it's another to see the kidnapping video knowing that almost every other person kidnapped has been beheaded. What a horrible thing to put your parents thru.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. he desserted...i recall they said "he walked away from the base in Iraq"

[Dhalgren]

7. I just got this off of icasulaties.org

07/08/04 The Guardian: Kidnapped marine reported safe in Lebanon
US officials say they have "credible evidence" that a marine who was kidnapped in Iraq has turned up safe and well in the Lebanon.

icasualties.org/oif/

Hooray!

[Chicago Democrat]

15. Yes he definately deserted... Can you blame him?

I hope they just leave him alone...What a nightmare.. I am am SO GLAD HE IS SAFE. That is the only thing that matters.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. nope don't blame him one little bit...i would have done the same

[bushisanidiot]

11. Old Brown Shoe

how come the other guy who got beheaded wasn't given this much attention? hmmm? maybe because his family didn't follow the RNC talking points as outlined to them?

[Rockholm]

14. My Tinfoil Thoughts....

My thoughts ever since this whole mess started was that our government thought that they could make a martyr out of him and turn the tide against the insurgents by having Arabs kill an Arab. Announce that he had been slaughtered and see what happens. What the government didn't expect was that the folks that they blamed it on said, "We didn't do it" Now what does the government to do? They are holding him and need to get rid of him. Sure, just way too easy to let him go. See ya later.
This whole thing STINKS. I just don't see how he would have a deserter as the military professes. Maybe I am just naive.