TonyClifton
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I have a question for you at the end of this...
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales vs. Lieutenant William Calley
Associated News report dated March 11, 2012:
"The highly decorated American soldier suspected of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, 9 of them children, was identified Friday as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a U.S. official revealed. Bales, who was smuggled out of Afghanistan Thursday, was said to be traumatized after watching a fellow soldier lose his leg in an explosion one day before unleashing the massacre."
Okay, now read this from Wikipedia:
Lieutenant William Calley is a convicted American war criminal and a former U.S. Army officer found guilty of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
Calley was charged on September 5, 1969, with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 104 Vietnamese civilians near the village of My Lai, at a hamlet called Son My, more commonly called My Lai in the U.S. press.
As many as 500 villagers, mostly women, children, infants and the elderly, had been systematically killed by American soldiers during the bloody rampage on March 16, 1968.
After the Jury deliberating for 79 hours, the six-officer jury (five of whom had served in Vietnam) convicted him on March 29, 1971, of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians.
On April 1, 1971, only a day after Calley was sentenced, U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred from Leavenworth prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal.
Later in 1974, President Nixon tacitly issued Calley a limited Presidential Pardon. Consequently, his general court-martial conviction and dismissal from the U.S. Army were upheld, however, the prison sentence and subsequent parole obligations were commuted to time served, leaving Calley a free man.
Ultimately, Calley served three and a half years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning and is now a free man.
My question is, "Do you think that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales should be treated equally?"
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales vs. Lieutenant William Calley
Associated News report dated March 11, 2012:
"The highly decorated American soldier suspected of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, 9 of them children, was identified Friday as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a U.S. official revealed. Bales, who was smuggled out of Afghanistan Thursday, was said to be traumatized after watching a fellow soldier lose his leg in an explosion one day before unleashing the massacre."
Okay, now read this from Wikipedia:
Lieutenant William Calley is a convicted American war criminal and a former U.S. Army officer found guilty of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.
Calley was charged on September 5, 1969, with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 104 Vietnamese civilians near the village of My Lai, at a hamlet called Son My, more commonly called My Lai in the U.S. press.
As many as 500 villagers, mostly women, children, infants and the elderly, had been systematically killed by American soldiers during the bloody rampage on March 16, 1968.
After the Jury deliberating for 79 hours, the six-officer jury (five of whom had served in Vietnam) convicted him on March 29, 1971, of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians.
On April 1, 1971, only a day after Calley was sentenced, U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred from Leavenworth prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal.
Later in 1974, President Nixon tacitly issued Calley a limited Presidential Pardon. Consequently, his general court-martial conviction and dismissal from the U.S. Army were upheld, however, the prison sentence and subsequent parole obligations were commuted to time served, leaving Calley a free man.
Ultimately, Calley served three and a half years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning and is now a free man.
My question is, "Do you think that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales should be treated equally?"
for more emphasis on the joke.
