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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox host Chris Wallace asks if death penalty for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should be ‘on the table’
By David Edwards
Sunday, June 8, 2014 10:48 EDT
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday wondered if former prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl deserved to be executed for allegedly leaving his outpost in 2009.
From what you know so far, is Bergdahl guilty of leaving his base without permission, being absent from his post? Wallace asked former U.S. Attorney General Michael Michael Mukasey during an interview on Fox News Sunday. Is he guilty of being a deserter, is he guilty of being a defector? And after five years of captivity some people initially said, well, thats enough should he face the appropriate punishment if he is found guilty?
Mukasey pointed out that Bergdahl had not been found guilty yet, and that a decision about punishment should come after that.
Desertion is a very serious offense, the former judge noted. It carries a penalty if its done in wartime that includes possibly the death penalty. At the end of World War II, we executed a U.S. soldier, in January of 1945 for desertion. So, its a very serious offense.
So, you believe the death penalty should at least be on the table for Bergdahl? Wallace pressed.
No, Im not saying the death penalty should be on the table for Bergdahl, Mukasey replied. That case at the end of World War II was virtually unique in modern times.
What Im saying is, that is some indication of the seriousness of which the military does view and should view desertion.
Watch the video below from June 8, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/08/fox-host-chris-wallace-asks-if-death-penalty-for-sgt-bowe-bergdahl-should-be-on-the-table/
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Iris
(15,632 posts)Could we just go back to daily news reports in the morning, at lunchtime, and in the evening? This 24-hour bullshit has truly ruined us.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)I'm so tired of people commenting all over the internet that the Country has gone to hell... when in fact the MEDIA has gone to hell.
Iris
(15,632 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Aristus
(66,095 posts)Is he guilty of this? Is he guilty of that? Can we have the death penalty, please? Please? Oh, pretty please? Ratings! Outrage! Patriotism! Freedom! God bless America!
God!
What a vile fuck that rotter is...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Archae
(46,261 posts)For treason and sedition.
lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)Thinks it knows better than the military when it comes to how to deal with a soldier...
Cha
(295,909 posts)onyourleft
(726 posts)...should not be on the table.
Initech
(99,914 posts)dilby
(2,273 posts)I think even if this man is found innocent that he should be executed and it should be Televised. And it should be required that every Republican Member of Congress should shoot this guy and they should then make a statement that this is what happens to people who go against the Republican Party.
This is exactly what I tell any right winger who says this kid should be tried for desertion. Gets them to back pedal real quick because they know deep down inside it's only their party that wants this.
frylock
(34,825 posts)just to impress upon them how fucking disgusting they sound.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)If, and I repeat "IF" it is proven that Bergdahl went AWOL, he would face a dishonorable discharge and that is it. The man was tortured for years while in captivity, and all these Republicans can do is think of more ways to torture him. There is no proof, not even a hint that Bergdahl provided any aide or comfort to the enemy, or anything close to that.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Brother Buzz
(36,214 posts)an Article 15. I suspect some would have preferred a dishonorable discharge, but it was just not in the cards; warm bodies were just to hard to replace.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)into sexual slavery to support his expensive heroin habit?
I mean, aside from the fact that we don't actually have any evidence Wallace has a heroin habit or ever sold any kidnapped children ...
Iris
(15,632 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)What kind of penalty did Bush receive after mommy and daddy covered for his AWOL ass?
jmowreader
(50,451 posts)Shrub's dream was to be Commissioner of Baseball.
Baseball wants someone who's smart and competent to be its commissioner, so he had to go into politics.
spanone
(135,635 posts)they should be shuttered and disinfected
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)...such hateful little souls.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Nobody that matters is asking that Bergdahl be exucuted for deserting the U.S. Army during wartime.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)for just being fox
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Since that's what Rethuglucans do with AWOL soldiers like W.