Bush Approves First Military Execution In 50 Years

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  1. Raven Registered Senior Member

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_military_execution
    WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday approved the execution of an Army private, the first time in over a half-century that a president has affirmed a death sentence for a member of the U.S. military.

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    With his signature from the Oval Office, Bush said yes to the military's request to execute Ronald A. Gray, the White House confirmed. Gray had had been convicted in connection with a spree of four murders and eight rapes in the Fayetteville, N.C., area over eight months in the late 1980s while stationed at Fort Bragg.
     
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  3. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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  5. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Well, It's a slipper slope, and we've started.
     
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  7. countezero Registered Senior Member

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    Right, Sam. Because US troops are raping and pillaging, right?

    Your agitprop would disgust me if it wasn't so predicatable and puerile.
     
  8. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    He deserved it for his crimes.
     
  9. Buffalo Roam Registered Senior Member

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    Well said, Justice served.
     
  10. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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  11. otheadp Banned Banned

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    I like how Drudge ran with this story... "Bush approves execution of a soldier".

    Here's a better copy: "Bush approves execution of a serial rapist".
     
  12. Buffalo Roam Registered Senior Member

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    You are correct, that ---------wasn't a Soldier.
     
  13. Myles Registered Senior Member

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    How about serial-rapist soldier ? That should cover it.
     
  14. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Yes I was thinking the same otheadp. He is a soldier but he's not much of one he's more of a criminal


    I also approve of cp for soldiers for

    desertion
    treason
    insubordinance
    being a traitor
    stuff like that
     
  15. OilIsMastery Banned Banned

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    Good point. If he converted to Islam, joined Al Qaeda, and started slaughtering Iraqis, noone would care except Bush & Co.
     
  16. Simon Anders Valued Senior Member

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    Wow. This would make your army harsher than pretty much any army in recent history.
     
  17. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    You have to be harsh
     
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  20. countezero Registered Senior Member

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    What String? You mean all US soldiers aren't baby-killing, daughter-raping Imperialists?
     
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  22. Vkothii Banned Banned

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    Yes, you do.
    I would take this advice to heart, say if you were my commanding officer.

    If you ordered me to shoot someone, I'd shoot you.
     
  23. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    I can't order you to just "shoot someone". Not everyone is a military target.
     

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