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2006-03-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Sherry 2006-03-07 12:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There is only one known case of desertion in Iraq.

...Well, where the HELL are you going to go?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-03-07 13:19|| 2006-03-07 13:19|| Front Page Top

#2 That was muslim Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun who deserted to Lebanon, faked his death in a jihadi snuff video, returned to US custody, and deserted back to Lebanon where he is married to his first cousin like a good boy. I can only conclude that he wasn't sentenced to 20 years in the Quantico brig because of multicultural pollution of the government and military made muslims untouchable.

Posted by ed 2006-03-07 13:29|| 2006-03-07 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course, the USA Today headline on yahoo News had a slightly different spin -

8,000 Desert During Iraq war

The a sentence near the end put it in perspective, in case anyone read that far - Desertions in 2005 represent 0.24% of the 1.4 million U.S. forces.

Mainstream Media/Mad Mullas -is there a difference? Isn't Mainstream one word?

Posted by Bobby 2006-03-07 14:28|| 2006-03-07 14:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Back in peacetime, I knew an ex-swab who had deserted, and been so *good* at it, that he worked as a bartender on his naval base. He was even shown his own picture by NIS (I think it was, I was Army), a time or two.

Finally, they let him indirectly know that were only after him for administrative reasons (peacetime again), but after hearing his stories of successful E&E, they offered him a promotion and a job on the spot--tracking down other deserters and AWOLs.

For the first time in the Navy, it was a job he really, really liked. And he soon became their #1 tracker. On ETS, they even hired him for a few weeks to train some of the other trackers, at a lot more than military pay.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-07 14:41|| 2006-03-07 14:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."

- Henry V, Act IV, Scene iii, William Shakespeare

Posted by Ebbeang Spalet3795 2006-03-07 14:50|| 2006-03-07 14:50|| Front Page Top

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