Bowe Bergdahl

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Oberon

You're going to need a few machine guns if you're going to be shooting deserters, it's estimated that some 40,000 American troops deserted their posts during the Iraq war, and some 50,000 deserted during the Vietnam war.

Last time I checked Desertion stopped being punishable by death sometime after the First World War, heck, even during the First World War we only shot about 306, out of the 20,000 we convicted. Germany in the Second World War shot about 15,000, and the Soviets shot about 158,000...so I suppose there's good precedence there for you. Never mind that the US only executed one soldier for desertion in the whole Second World War, the Axis and Comintern obviously had the better solution. Never mind that the US hasn't executed a man for desertion in seventy years, and that he was the only man to be executed since the Civil war.

Obviously shooting his was sarcasm, but I would....because men died for his desertion. I hope they at least stick his cowardly butt in prison for the rest of his life. I don't think it matters what political heat the Obama admin can bring, the army will have to investigate now..