in their DISTINGUISHED careers at protecting We The People of the United States of America! I cannot begin to express how these types of cases DISGUST me and break my heart! I LOVE & RESPECT our beloved military members so very much and that they could EVER get in “trouble” for a black eye or bloody lip on an ANIMAL is beyond the human ability to comprehend!

The Seals should not be charged with anything, rather given a medal for their good work.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FROM THOSE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE AISLE…………….

Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about Navy SEALs who will face a court-martial. I agree that our servicemembers are heroes and must always be treated with fairness and respect.

I contacted the Navy about these charges and was informed that they resulted from a full investigation by officials at U.S. Special Operations Command Central and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

On December 7, 2009, three Navy SEALs were arraigned on charges that they made false official statements and had committed dereliction of duty. One SEAL was charged with assaulting a detainee.

The SEALs have asked for a military judge and jury to listen to the facts and issue a fair decision. I have great faith in our military justice system and am confident that this will occur. While military laws and discipline must be enforced, I do not want other servicemembers to feel that they have to look over their shoulders when they execute their duties.

The trial is tentatively scheduled for mid-January 2010. I will monitor its progress closely. If you have any additional concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I PARTICULAR ENJOYED REFERENCE OF AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A “DETAINEE’. I ALSO ENJOY THE GOOD SENATOR’S PRESUMPTION OF FAIRNESS AND HIS GREAT FAITH IN THE MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM. IF DEMOCRATS LIKE NELSON HAVE SUCH GREAT FAITH IN THE SYSTEM, WHY ARE TRIALS OF “DETAINEES” BEING MOVED TO CIVILIAN COURTS?

When you tie the hands of warriors who are trained to shoot for the kill, break things, etc… for the safety of a nation, WTH??

War sucks. But the people who continue to give funding for the war are doing it solely to blame Bush for the amount of money “wasted”!

Do they realize if they untied the warriors hands and let them level every damn terrorist cell identified down to the dirt, we could rebuild what we destroy a hell of a lot cheaper AND kill tangos.

Instead, we prosecute warriors needlessly for doing what they are trained to do. UFB. This case should never have E-VEN progressed to the point it has.

I know there was another long thread about this where it was suggested they would get off but it was apparent they did not tell the truth all along? ? ?

about the incident. I served nine years on active duty and, for the most part, the men and women I served with were decent and honorable.

However, there were others who were not.

Those few, when identified, were subject to the UCMJ not only for what they did but for the shame and dishonor that they brought on the country, their branch of service and fellow service members.

If the initial reports are true, and so far I have not seen any real challenge to their accuracy, the SEAL who assaulted the prisoner committed a criminal act that is punishable under the UCMJ. The other two SEALs made false official statements about the incident and, according to at least one report, attempted to suborn a third witness.

If they have behaved in the manner as charged, they are not heroes being unfairly punished for an act of heroism but persons who have brought discrace to their uniform. I will stand up for an Alvin York but not for Danny Dever.

Gates has turned out to be just another Gov’t chair-warmer. He won’t do squat for these guys. I’ll defer to the SEALS on this one. They are right to DEMAND a Court Martial, I would too!
GOD bless our TROOPS!!

I am EOC(SCW), USN, RET

should give these SEALS his cute little peace medal.

They’re fighting for peace and he wouldn’t know peace from a chunk of ACORN holiday cookie.

The Libs who comment here make me retch. They pretend to be veterans when it is blatantly obvious that the closest they ever got to combat was target practice in Boot Camp!

Some of them don’t even make sense—comparing this to massacres? The only massacres that have happened have been innocent American civilians—over 3,000 of them. I guess we are just supposed to forget the four Americans this rabid cretin had BURNED ALIVE? DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREETS? HUNG ON A BRIDGE? By God, I’d like about ten minutes with him. I guarantee you he’d never rise again. He’d be dead in a sand hole where he belongs instead of pampered and protected and politicized by our sicko Non-Commander in Chief and all the gutless whimps he has working for him and all the sell-outs who are carrying out this witch hunt.

And this, people, is OUR FAULT, because we haven’t gotten on our hind legs a long time before now and kicked political butt clear past the Potomac! We have let these little panty-waist whining no-account flim-flam crooks and their booze-guzzling porker friends all but ruin this country and subject us to the spectacle of turning on our own combat troops? In the name of WHAT? Political “Correctness”?

Well, you can take your politically correct world and you know full well what you can do with it, because this boy isn’t standing for it anymore. From now on, whenever I hear one of you despicable maggots holding forth your liberal gob, I am going to react and I am not going to be politically correct.

that the Fallujah contractors were burnt alive. That is indescribable. I thought they were shot, (dead) their bodies burnt and hung from a bridge.This sickens me so much.And was there ever justice for the two young men captured and tortured to death 2 years ago.I find it difficult to turn the other cheek and all that. I just want to inflict pain and suffereing on the perpetrators big time. May they meet their just deserts.

how is it that the men who defend us are our the emenies.and the muslim terrorist are freinds.holter bends over backwards for the terrorists.but yet he wants to drag our brave men in uniform thru the mud.holter did call us a nation of cowards,and lets them thugs in phila.with night sticks in front of a polling place off the hook,and wants to hold trial for the enemy in new york,that will cost millions of tax payer dollars.the writing is on the wall,he is a traitor to our way of life.fight these progressives at the polling booth and vote against them.

It’s too bad the three SEALs opted for Courts Martial. This whole thing would have blown over and they would have been “back in the boat” doing their duty. Now the matter has such a high profile it can’t just drop through the cracks.
Personally, it’s the terrorists that trouble me most. I would prefer to go back to public hangings, and let these animals swing at the end of a rope in Time Square. Strip them down to their shorts. Remove every possible shred of dignity and wish them well with their 72 virgins. Bye Bye! And let the trap door open with a POP.

The SEALS were accused of assaulting the terrorist by an M-@-A III in an incident that took place some ‘five years’ ago. The very fact that this has taken over five years to bring about, reveals there is more to this than assault charges. Lets face it, if they were guilty of a crime, even Bush would have prosecuted them.
Methinks we have a personality conflict going on here. Methinks we have one guy upset w/ another or a group of others & he decided to ‘get-em’, by asserting they acted inappropriately. If this was clear cut, why five different statements?
Our government does not have the time or money to investigate union fraud & corruption, will not investigate thugs w/ billy clubs standing outside a polling place in 2008, & will not investigate ACORN & its affiliated cabal of federal money sapping money laundering wing nuts. But we will go after three Navy SEALS for tagging a terrorist?
These charges appear to be an over-reaction w/ more than a tinge of political motivation, greased on by personality conflicts between one sailor versus others & may even be, dare I say it, envy over the respected status of Navy SEALS versus swabbies.