Heads up west coast....CBS Evening News.....Iraq platoon

[AnnInLa]

Lead story....the platoon in Iraq that is refusing orders for a "suicide mission"....is arrested. Commander says, "temporary breakdown in discipline"....narrator asks if soldiers on the ground are beginning to wonder if this is worth it.

[AnnInLa]

1. Oooops, someone beat me to it.....use that thread

[trumad]

2. Damn...A whole platoon.

That's a lot of guys... I wonder if it includes Officers?

[knowbody0]

3. we need to send them our support

i am sure their incarceration will be overturned when kerry is pres

[bukk]

6. I don't think you can assume that

Even if Kerry sympathizes with the soldiers, it would set a very dangerous precedent -- unless it can be made clear that they were disobeying an illegal order.

[wryter2000]

4. Thank you!

As usual, thanks to everyone at DU who gives me something to look foward to when I get home. :yourock:

[mopaul]

5. once the soldiers lay down their swords, the emperor is F----D

[mailman82]

7. mailman82

Things like this is what started the end in Nam.