Tuesday, February 28, 2006

 

Military Justice Comes Home

We have followed closely here at Blogotional the case brought against Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez for murdering his commanding officer in Iraq. He is back in teh news becasue there have been additional charges brought against him
The additional charges against Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez, 37, - three counts of failure to obey orders against possession of a private firearm, alcohol and explosives and one count of giving military printers and copiers to an Iraqi - were brought last week, according to a statement from the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg.
and because he has arrived at Fort Bragg where he will stand trial.

There is a paucity of news on this situation, and I think that is a good thing. The reason Blogotional started to coer this so hard was because the press and the left were trying to use it as a lever to demonstrate that Iraq was "just like Vietnam" because the enlisted men were killing the officers, "just like Vietnam."

Several Iraqi elections have come and gone since then and the "quagmire" cries have largely died down. We showed here at Blogotional way back when that it was likely this was a simply case of murder for profit.

In other words this is no more news than any other murder, and frankly that's a good thing from my perspective.

Congratulations to the Military Justice System which seems to be handling this just fine.

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