HELP: SOLDIER SENTENCED 20 YEARS FOR KILLING THE ENEMIES!!!

[ChunkyMonkey]

http://dcxposed.com/2013/09/24/us-1s...ack-on-taliban

Twenty eight year old First Lieutenant Clint Lorance of North Texas was recently found guilty of two counts of murder in the July 2012 killing of two suspected Taliban fighters in a remote sector of Kandahar Province Afghanistan. Lorance was sentenced to 20 years in Leavenworth, dismissed from the army and must forfeit all pay. He was found not guilty of making a false official statement. Prosecutors insisted Lorance ordered his men to open fire on unarmed civilians which violates the U.S. military‘s official rules of engagement – a policy that requires them to hold their fire unless there’s evidence of hostile action or direct hostile intent. Capt. William Miller, a government prosecutor, told the jury “Lt. Lorance used his rank and position to harass, intimidate, threaten and murder Afghans.” Lorance’s defense argued that the village being patrolled was under Taliban control and had long since been vacated by all known civilian inhabitants due to constant violence and warfare. In fact, Lorance had just taken command of that particular platoon because in the days prior they had suffered several losses – including the loss of their prior commander. Lorance’s very presence in the situation was a testament to the “hostile action” and definitive “hostile intent” that U.S. troops had come to expect in that district. - See more at: http://dcxposed.com/2013/09/24/us-1s....rDCLyiki.dpuf

Read the whole article on that link and sign the petition please!

[wctriumph]

Signed it.

[BushMasterBoy]

Send an email to President Obama president@whitehouse.gov

[davsel]

Signed, with false PI.
You did notice the petition is from change.org - don't want them having any of my info.

[Ready Room]

"Send an email to President Obama"...who?

[brokenscout]

Nothing like making soldiers second guess themselves in combat. Fuck this, hope he gets his life back

[airborneranger]

Nothing like making soldiers second guess themselves in combat. Fuck this, hope he gets his life back

This is the problem with the war in Afghanistan as well as what we faced in Iraq. You don't have an enemy that dresses in uniform and can be easily identified. We are making our Soldiers make life and death decisions and then we are holding them accountable for those decisions. We just need to stop and bring these kids home.

[cstone]

A new movie in the making... Lorance of Afghanistan

[sabot_round]

This is the problem with the war in Afghanistan as well as what we faced in Iraq. You don't have an enemy that dresses in uniform and can be easily identified. We are making our Soldiers make life and death decisions and then we are holding them accountable for those decisions. We just need to stop and bring these kids home.

Agreed!!

[Dave]

Just another way of the administration being apologetic to our enemies. When I was in Afghanistan we had too many RoE restrictions that could get us killed without a chance for self defense.