Navy Seals Indicted

[Charlielima]

This PC stuff has got to stop:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html
CL

[GoldenRivet]

you have got to be fu$%# kidding me

its a far left world we live in.

serve in the military - do your job - your reward is to be thrown under the bus.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Charlielima

This PC stuff has got to stop:

CL

Amen, brother.

[bookworm_020]

Over the top for sure!

[PeriscopeDepth]

For punching the dbag???? Come on, who cares?

PD

[Freiwillige]

This makes me absolutely sick! Where is the country I love and grew up in?
Rambo is in the woods crying.

Sad day when whackos take over.

Why is everything I write underlined?

This PC stuff has got to stop:

Really?
Dereliction of duty , making a false statement and impeding a military inquiry are suddenly issues of PC?
And there was me thinking they were very standard under military law.

[Skybird]

This is sick.

Waging wars? Yes. But no blood, no sweat, no dirt and no violence please. Wage war like I just charmingly wave my hand in an elegant gesture. Make it look easy, simple, clean, civilised and distinguished and as if nothing has happened. Make iut looks like a children's play. Make it running like a righteous heroe's parade under a blue sky and shining sun.

No, this is not just sick. This is perverse.

Waging wars? Yes. But no blood, no sweat, no dirt and no violence please.

It has nothing to do with waging war without vioence, it is about treatment of prisoners after they have been detained and people lying to cover up their alledged crimes.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

It has nothing to do with waging war without vioence, it is about treatment of prisoners after they have been detained and people lying to cover up their alledged crimes.

I would agree if their fingers were cut off or something, but a few punches?

[Platapus]

I doubt very much that the rational of these charges stemmed from the punch. Making false statements and interfering of an investigation is a serious offense.

Before getting all spun up about this, why don't we let the military system handle this?

I would agree if their fingers were cut off or something, but a few punches?

You should know from hundreds of examples across the political, military and civil spectrum that attempts at cover ups often bring more trouble than the alledged crime itself.
So in this case it could have been.....
Hitting a prisoner, oh dear naughty boy have a slap on the wrist and don't do it again.
Whereas what it is now
Lying to your superiors and then messing with an inquiry, silly buggers showing contempt for the chain of command and the military justice system and foolishly trying to screw them over by playing them as mugs.

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I would agree if their fingers were cut off or something, but a few punches?

I tend to agree, but...

...I don't think its wise to set a precedent that even a "few punches" are okay. While I can empathize if that's what they did (and by God, I probably would have done the same), these individuals DID have the option for what amounts to a strong reprimand or a court martial.

I would like to know all the facts before I render judgement. It's one thing to say that civilian policy-makers are going over the edge regarding political correctness in the service. It's another thing to flaw UNIFORMED SERVICEMEN for the SAME THING merely because it's regarding OTHER uniformed servicemen.

[SteamWake]

Its almost as if someone is trying to undermine everything the US does.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Charlielima

This PC stuff has got to stop:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html
CL

Hey hey Im pretty left wing and all - but I agree that is really insane, how can you charge Navy Seals with assault? Its their bloody job to for crying out loud!
Maybe they should send them in to missions armed with cake and flowers if they dont want them to 'assault'?

Next we will start locking up doctors for prescribing drugs ffs.