Shouldn’t you be reading Ender’s Game or Starship Troopers? You obviously don’t have the skill set to think about anything having to do with reality.

PS, There have been almost no left-wing blog entries on the Hamdania incident.

Apparently you don’t understand is that every wisp of a military “crime”, no matter how unfounded or specious is an almost instant lynching in the left side of the blogosphere, and is invariably pointed out as absolute proof of our soldiers guilt.

That is what Kit and Heidi are trying to counter.

But you don’t care about that……you’d rather bore us…..

One reason I had to speak at length was the errors of basic reasoning your buddies exhibited took so long to unwind. With intelligent people, at least, one can quickly zero in on the main issues and discuss them. With them, on the other hand, I had to explain very basic things like (a) the legal rules define the prosecution’s obligations and (b) people who confess to crimes are frequently guilty. I guess the explanations went over your head.

The question is ultimately who is right, not who is more popular. And I see this question you which you lack the intelligence and integrity to consider. Big surprise; your propaganda is barely one-step removed from our enemy’s in technique and style.

No…I have CDO….it’s like obsessive compulsive disorder but alphabetized correctly.

And what they are doing talking about this stuff on “my little radio show” is exactly what they are supposed to do…..discuss the issue.

I think they were much too kind to you and let you prattle on when you called in, whereas I would have interrupted your droning diatribe to at least try to make your rambling interesting.

They were losing listeners like someone sprayed a can of Patchouli when you were on. After hearing you on the air, and reading your somnabulent screed here, all I can say is you are the human equivalent of valium.

As for the defense decision to allow written submissions, that’s fine and dandy, but, as usual, you’re getting lost in details and ignoring the bigger picture. They have the right to subpoena available witnsses and chose not to. Meaning, they do not simply have to rely on the prosecutors ability to procure witnsesses and then cross-examine them. Second, there is no real power to subponea unwilling civilian witnsees to an Article 32. The defense lawyers surely know this. So, if the prosecution only wants to produce them at trial and just present a “prima facien case” at the Aritlce 32, that is their business and their may be good tactical reasons to do so (like not disclosing all the details of the case). Nothing stops the defense from subpoenaing available witnsses as permitted by the rules. And surely nothing prevented them from putting the accused on the stand.

If your son’s lawyers wanted the public to understand this case in its entirety, they’d not have fought tooth and nail for thhe Article 32 to be beind closed doors and for critical evidence to be withheld from their view.

And, as for Kender, if I’m obsessed, what is it called when Kit and Heidi write four-part manifestos and talk for hours on end about theses cases on your little radio show and do so whenever a similar issue of war crimes allegations comes up? I’m simply interested in this case and no one else is even trying to make sense of it in a way that is fair to the JAG prosecutors to the exten their actions are defensible. I’m sorry if your short attention span cannot handle an article of this length; don’t go to law school if you’re that prone to ADD.

The defense called 11 NCIS agents and 11 Iraqi citizens but only 2 agents were to be called by the prosecution-the Iraqis were not available for examination and the prosecution queried the S3 of the battalion in the AO now, and he couldn’t find them to even put them on the phone…- that’s part of the record. An agreement to submit all the relevant information in writing to the IO was made and with that agreement, both sides decided not to call witnesses. If you had been there, you’d have had a better handle on the specifics. Good to see you’re using proper RCM references now.