Pentagon Tries to Take Away Honorable Discharge of Iraq Vet. for Protesting War in Uniform

Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on June 5th, 2007 6:44 am by HL

Pentagon launches more witch hunts of Iraq war critics

Americablog
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Marine Corporal Adam Kokesh
In this case, they’re going after an Iraq war vet for wearing camouflage fatigues during a mock patrol protesting the war that took place in DC in March. Wearing camo? Funny that the Bush administration uses active and former military, in uniform, at practically every political event they hold, but the Pentagon has no problem when it’s the Republicans using our troops for political purposes.

Remember when Colorado Republican House member Marilyn Musgrave had active-duty troops in uniform at a political event during her re-election? I didn’t hear about those service members being in trouble. Remember when Bush did it in the White House a few months back (see photo at left), he had a whole crew of folks in uniform behind him at a terribly political event mean to bash Democrats over the war.

HL’s Take
The story refers to Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh. So a soldier that went over to Iraq, risked his life for Bush’s lies, and made it home, is now going to be discredited with an other then honorable discharge because he wants to tell the truth about what is really going on over there. It is Bush and the Republicans that dishonor the troops by treating them this way. Maybe if they listened to what the troops have to say, they might be doing a better job in Iraq, instead they blunder their way to the worst failure of all time, so they can continue to steal Iraq’s oil, while we pay over $3.00 for gasoline over here.

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