ONE HAS TO WONDER WHERE LADY JUSTICE IS, ON VACATION FOR SIX YEARS !
s just sentenced to 20 years in Ft. Leavenworth on two counts of murder. In July 2012, 1LT Lorance ordered the engagement of two Taliban scouts who were tracking his platoon's movements while on a patrol in Kandahar province, a platoon that had recently experienced losses, including the previous Platoon Leader. According to our ridiculous Rules of Engagement, soldiers in a combat zone are told to hold their fire unless there is evidence of hostile action or direct hostile intent. I spent two and a half years in southern Afghanistan, and we all knew the Taliban utilized fighters on motorcycles and cell phones as scout/trackers. If there are enemy combatants reporting your patrol movements in order to facilitate an attack, how is that not hostile intent? CPT William Miller, the government prosecutor, said1LT Lorance "used his rank and position to harass, intimidate, threaten, and murder Afghans." What an incredible dilemma for our men and women in combat: fight and kill the enemy and be sent to prison. Or be killed by the enemy and be denied your death gratuity benefits. This is utter BS and I implore true Americans, and veterans, to melt down the White House, DoD, and Department of the Army phone lines and email.
Linda Gross Clapper RE: " I implore true Americans, and veterans, to melt down the White House, DoD, and Department of the Army phone lines and email." This is similar to what I have been saying. We should be terribly outraged and writing, emailing, calling and Facebooking our U.S. senators and U.S. congressman. It is on my "to do list" for tomorrow! If I accomplish nothing else, this will be done!!! Otherwise, Obama will get away with this. Nothing will be done and this will leave an undeserved blemish or scar on the soldiers who were honorable soldiers who were in the same platoon....and even more so on the soldiers who died searching for this traitor!
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