SEALs Closer to Acquittal--Part 5

I don't want to mislead anyone into believing that the three Navy SEALs who have been treated worse than terrorists are anywhere close to home free. The leftist anti-military Obama administration is pushing hard to destroy these American heroes. But things have started to go the SEALs' way. This is a major development. For the four previous articles on the SEALs, go to our "Index" on the right column, and click on U.S. Military.

The self-righteous Maj. Gen. Charles Cleveland who has spouted the Obama party line on "keeping the military on the straight and narrow" has signed grants of immunity to five Navy personnel who were present at the alleged bitch-slap rendered to terrorist and mass-murderer of civilians Ahmed Hashim Abed. An unidentified Navy source (I'll bet they'll be looking for him or her next) says two officers and three enlisted men will be testifying in direct contradiction to the claims of the subhuman terrorist and the one Navy eyewitness against the SEALs. The sole Navy witness who was supposed to have corroborated the eyewitness will not be called by the prosecution after all.

Additional rulings have also been made allowing the SEALs to conduct a full and fair defense. A military judge has ruled that the military must produce Abed as a witness at the court-martial. Let the bastard hang himself figuratively the way he hanged the American civilians literally. Unfortunately, the defense won't be allowed to set fire to the terrorist first, the way he did to the American civilians.

The Navy's sole eyewitness, the master at arms at the detention center, is now the only witness (except the terrorist who has read the Al Qaeda manual on how to claim brutality) who will testify that SEAL petty officer Matthew McCabe punched Abed in the stomach and gave him a bloody lip. What a fine pair they are. A mass murderer and a lily-livered rat. As I've discussed in the four previous posts, nobody will support a military man who brutalizes a helpless prisoner. But that's how the armchair political generals and admirals want to characterize the SEALs' behavior in this case. Baloney. If McCabe actually did use strong methods to restrain the whining dog, which is hardly a proven fact, how delicately does the leftist claque expect a warrior to treat a vicious and undoubtedly recalcitrant prisoner who is being placed in the cage he so richly deserves? Do they think this is a game on the Bible school playground?

Prior to the heat put on the military prosecutors and their fellow-travelers in the Pentagon, the witness list for the Navy included the master-at-arms and the corroborating witness. The automatic civilian right of the SEALs to call the prime witness who accused them of brutality and collusion were not going to be allowed, let alone five witnesses who would refute everything they said. So much pressure and publicity has brought this travesty to light that the persecutors were forced to yield to the norms that any American has the right to expect, military or civilian.

In addition, McCabe has never wavered in his denial of any wrongdoing. His exact words are "I did not assault nor did I see anyone assault or abuse Abed." Although it cannot be used in court, McCabe took a polygraph test at an independent institution, and answered the very simple and direct question "did you strike Abed" with a clear "no." The test indicated he was telling the truth. This clear abuse of military discretion and politicization of the military courts has drawn national attention. The FaceBook page "Support the Navy SEALs who Captured Ahmed Hashim Abed" has 120,000 followers, and "Americans United Against the Prosecution of Three Navy SEALs" has over a quarter-million.

They're not going to be able to hide this damnable treatment of an American hero under a Pentagon rock. The SEALs had ample opportunity to merely kill the Islamofascist murderer. They had just completed a picture-perfect operation, using local intelligence to capture the slimebag in his bed, march him off to an awaiting helicopter and leave the area without firing a shot. Yet now we're expected to believe that men so cool and professional in the middle of a war zone suddenly lost all control and brutalized a helpless prisoner when everybody was safely out of harm's way.

Maj. Gen. Cleveland is merely covering his political arse, just as he did in first defending his half-assed investigation into the matter. He had cavalierly dismissed the formal concerns of multiple members of Congress who questioned the decision to prosecute brave warriors on such flimsy evidence. He ignored their mention of the Al Qaeda instructions for all terrorists to wound themselves if possible and claim they were beaten by American personnel. They also demanded to know why the only physical injury on Abed of a punch in the stomach is a cut to the inside of his lip. Cleveland and his point-men must have studied different anatomy books from the rest of us.

One thing is sure. The SEALs will be tried long before the mass murderer is even told if and when he'll have a trial of his own. Meanwhile, the SEALs are treated as ordinary military defendants while Abed feasts on his carefully-prepared halal meals, is given a nice clean rug on which to pray five times a day to Mecca for the destruction of Israel, America and all infidels, reads his Koran untouched by infidel hands, and gloats at the murders he has committed and the heroes he as caused to be put on trial. This is what the Obama administration and its political hacks in the Pentagon call "justice."

I WISH EVERYONE A JOYOUS EASTER.

And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.