Reply #37: Remember though due to the nature of the case

[nadinbrzezinski]

this is a hot potato

They were not going that light on him, though I expect them to throw the book at him

After all he is guilty... (napoleonic system)

But this is not, for poltiical reasons, the outcome they wanted. They are having way too much exposure in the media

Now one last thing... as to Rhandi Rhodes... in her defense of Watada suposedly as his defense of the Constitution, she does not get it, at all. And she is a civilian, and served in a PEACE TIME military. You do NOT have the right to choose and pick what theater you go to, and this war is very legal... thanks to the IWR... and until the US Congrss takes away its permission, as it were, the war remains legal, and any order to deploy is legal. The other choice would be for the war to be taken over at the docket in the Hague which has two problems

1.- We don't recognize the International Court system
2.- Given the UN Security Council gave its blessing you all think security council members want to do that? After all they would have to face the music too...



I have said it before and I will say it again, Randi is not doing anybody any favors, let alone the Guard troops she advises so badly.

But for political reasons that is why this is a WOW, they are doing what?

The last thing they need is more publicity and that is exactly what they will get

And the LTEE, he'd better make reservations to Leavenworth, in that I agree... not for six years. I will not be shocked if they add every charge, and make him serve time individually. (He may be looking at 10 years easy, assuming they do not decide to add mutiny to the charges) What is at stake is nothing less than good order and discipline.



That said, he's a very couragous young man.