Terrorists Treated Better Than America's Marines?

[DeanPatsFan]

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[quote]Camp Pendleton: America's Gitmo?

Posted 6/14/2006

Military Justice: America has in custody eight prisoners of war charged with murdering innocent civilians. They are kept in shackles. They have not been officially charged with a crime. They are United States Marines.

While the world obsesses about the suicides of three enemy combatants who were being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, citing it as a case of how we routinely violate the Geneva Convention to the point of torture, a deafening silence attends the treatment of one sailor and seven Marines held at Camp Pendleton pending possible murder charges in the death of a man in the Iraqi town of Hamandiya.

According to attorney Jeremiah Sullivan III, the sailor whom he represents is shackled at the hands and feet and held in solitary confinement for all but one hour a day. In an article in the Marine Corps Times, Sullivan is quoted as saying the sailor's treatment is worse than what terrorists allegedly receive at Gitmo: "Even in Supermax (the federal high-security prison) people get to exercise."

At this writing, no charges have been filed against the third-class hospital corpsman assigned to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. He and the seven Marines are being held in the brig at Pendleton while four others are restricted to base. "Anytime he is out of the room he is shackled," Sullivan said.

The 20-year-old corpsman was on his second tour of duty. The first was in 2004, with an infantry battalion that lost 19 men killed in combat, seven from the sailor's company. Two of them died in his arms on the tour. He himself earned a Purple Heart.

Pfc. John Jodka III, another member of the 3/5, was also in shackles when his parents recently visited him at Pendleton. He's among those accused of dragging an unarmed, 52-year-old man from his home in Hamandiya in the middle of the night and killing him.

Jodka dropped out of the University of California, Riverside, to join the fight for Iraq's freedom and our own. "I know my son," said his father, John Jodka Jr. "He's the epitome of a true-blue, ready-to-go, high-speed Marine rifleman."

[b]But the anti-war left is not concerned with these men who would willingly lay down their lives for us, or with how they're being treated, or whether our justice system is giving them a fair shake. The anti-war left's concerns and sympathies are with those who are trying to kill us.[/b]

The latest example is the weeping over the suicides of the three at Gitmo, said to be "driven to despair" by their "inhumane" treatment. But aren't their brethren trying to kill themselves on a daily basis in Iraq, taking as many Iraqi civilians and coalition soldiers with them as they can? Isn't martyrdom their goal?

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., once rose on the floor of the Senate to compare Guantanamo to Stalin's gulags because "the air conditioning had been turned so far and the temperature was so cold in the room that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold." Poor jihadists.

Time magazine not long ago whined that "torture" at Guantanamo included playing music by pop diva Christina Aguilera. Bet the Marines shackled in Camp Pendleton awaiting murder charges for defending their country wouldn't mind that kind of inhumane treatment.

If soldiers die in combat because they're too cautious in a war where death lurks behind every door, liberals bemoan the body count. This is a war in which the enemy follows no rules and wears no uniforms. It is difficult enough without our soldiers wondering every time they aim their weapon if they will be charged with murder.

They at least deserve better treatment and more concern than the jihadists trying daily to kill them and us.[/quote]

Where are the bleeding heart libs who are constantly caterwauling about the abuse and treatment of the gitmo detainees, and why are they not voicing the same concerns over these Marines?

[JetsFanatic]

Ted Kennedy & "Cut & Run" Murtha would be up in arms if it were even speculated that our military were mistreating the enemy, but these 2 guys and their democratic ilk are very quiet over this.

[Jet Moses]

[QUOTE=JetsFanatic]Ted Kennedy & "Cut & Run" Murtha would be up in arms if it were even speculated that our military were mistreating the enemy, but these 2 guys and their democratic ilk are very quiet over this.[/QUOTE]

"Quiet" over it?

Murtha's mouth put those Marines in shackles. The Time article didn't get it's legs until that SOB began trumpeting it. Him and Kennedy pushed the for the investigation, and then began to smear them and have them convicted by the public. He's a bastard and he will get his.

[Jet Moses]

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Where are the bleeding heart libs who are constantly caterwauling about the abuse and treatment of the gitmo detainees, and why are they not voicing the same concerns over these Marines?[/QUOTE]

Lib's want due process for terrorists, not our Marines. They think Murtha is a wonderful man.

[Jet Moses]

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