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stever
Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 6918 Location: https://womensbasketballdaily.net
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 11/03/17 11:04 am ::: |
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The inevitable Trump tirade might be entertaining.
I'm mildly surprised but not offended by the sentence.
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Youth Coach
Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 4760
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Posted: 11/03/17 5:41 pm ::: |
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Sorry but I think he should've been imprisoned. |
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justintyme
Joined: 08 Jul 2012 Posts: 8407 Location: Northfield, MN
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Posted: 11/03/17 5:54 pm ::: |
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Youth Coach wrote: |
Sorry but I think he should've been imprisoned. |
I wouldn't have thought it wrong if he was, but it's not unreasonable that he wasn't. A dishonorable discharge is not a slap on the wrist, and he has already paid a massive price for his actions.
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Howee
Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 15755 Location: OREGON (in my heart)
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 11/07/17 4:40 pm ::: |
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You don't seriously consider the situations remotely similar do you?
Bergdahl was convicted of violating the UCMJ. The only issue was the appropriate sentence.
To somehow drag Bush into that is a reach of astronomical proportions.
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Howee
Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 15755 Location: OREGON (in my heart)
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Posted: 11/08/17 2:41 am ::: |
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ArtBest23 wrote: |
You don't seriously consider the situations remotely similar do you? |
No, not remotely similar.
One person, a minor cog in the military machine, broke conventional wisdom of military order, putting himself (and others) in harm's way.
The Other Person, leader of the world's most powerful military, invaded a country on false pretenses, costing thousands upon thousands of lives to be lost.
One was treated as a criminal, with some outcry that a prison sentence was not meted out.
The Other was re-elected, and is now retired in the lap of luxury, with no whispers of any wrongdoing.
I see no similarities at all. I see colossal DISPARITIES in how "Justice" is perceived in our nation.
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cthskzfn
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Posted: 11/10/17 7:57 am ::: |
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I think the notion of a US President as War Criminal is incomprehensible to many US citizens.
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 11/10/17 11:07 am ::: |
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And some people think it's a neato political slogan even though it has no connection in reality to international law.
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