Obama treats soldiers as cops, terrorists as full US citizens?

This is ulcer-worthy weirdness. Many possibilities of course for this kind of insane policy to be enforced in the US against it’s own forces, but what comes to my mind first is the notion that President Obama’s fantasy that the Islamic terrorist threat is a law and order matter, means that suddenly all the various branches of the US forces become police. Trained to treat all they encounter as suspects for a crime at worst with expecttions of being the cops who beat Rodney King if they do not act with all respect against people who are evil and dangerous beyond most of our imaginations ability.

From FOX News with a H/T to GOV Weasel Zippers Reportonarrakis

March 31, 2004: Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as the charred and mutilated bodies of U.S. contractors hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, Iraq.

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.

FoxNews.com obtained the official handwritten statement from one of the three witnesses given on Sept. 3, hours after Abed was captured and still being held at the SEAL base at Camp Baharia. He was later taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green Zone in Baghdad.

The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.

“I gave the detainee a glance over and then left,” the SEAL wrote. “I did not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in good health.”

Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, spokeswoman for the special operations component of U.S. Central Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com that three SEALs have been charged in connection with the capture of a detainee. She said their court martial is scheduled for January.

United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.

The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated that “Objective Amber” planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and “they had been tracking this guy for some time.”

The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its grip over Iraq.

The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades. Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the world press to photograph.

Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had evaded capture until September.

The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.

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5 Replies to “Obama treats soldiers as cops, terrorists as full US citizens?”

  1. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

    I suppose a bloody lip on an inbred bedouin savage tapeworm is a much greater crime in Buraq Hussein’s mind than the burning of those bodies dangling from the top of the bridge. It’s sickness is hard to fathom. It’s almost unbelieveble. I wish it were just a sick joke, but it’s not…

  2. The absurdity of the decisions coming from the white house is so severe… it does give one pause. There are mid terms. Lets hope Americans notice.

  3. does anyone else see the significance of their arraignment date-dec. 7th?
    the date of another treachorous attack on the u.s. military-only this time the traitors come from within.

  4. It’s absolutely incredible that events such as these take place in today’s society. Inspired by the philosophy of the man who is the leader of the free world, no less.

    I visited the Imperial War Museum in London the other week. What was it all for?

  5. Oh and by the way, in any sane world the very day those Americans were burned and abused by Iraqis would have been the day the kid gloves came off. No holds barred, that country and culture should have been hammered into the earth. Every man jack of them should have been taught that their place was down in the dust at our feet. Only when we had driven that lesson home to every Iraqi alive, with the use of overwhelming force, should we have given them a hand to get up, and stand on their own two feet.