Marine gets 18 months in Iraqi's death
By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A Marine private who pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the killing of an innocent Iraqi civilian was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in custody. "You have a very fortuitous pretrial agreement," the judge, Lt. Col. David Jones, told Pfc. John J. Jodka III.
Jodka III was part of a squad of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman accused of kidnapping 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the town of Hamdania, taking him to a roadside hole, shooting him and then trying to cover up the incident.
The military judge wanted to hand down a five-year punishment, but was bound by the terms of the plea deal. Prosecutors had sought 11 years.
As part of a plea deal, Jodka pleaded guilty Oct. 27 to charges of assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice, and prosecutors dropped other charges including murder and kidnapping. The deal required Jodka to testify. The judge said that if Jodka cooperates, he can receive a general discharge.
"I decided to plead guilty because in the end it was the right thing to do," Jodka said. "I had to weigh in myself the need for truth as opposed to the loyalty to the squad I had bonded with in Iraq."
The judge ruled after reviewing evidence including a video, made by the squad two days after the killing, in which the 20-year-old private participated in profane jokes about killing more people and car bombers.
The video showed Jodka and others atop a personnel carrier, possibly at dawn. It is not clear who is speaking at specific times.
A voice that appears to be the camera operator's says, "J.J., say what you know," and then, "You gonna kill some more (expletive) today?"
"Yeah," is the answer, apparently by Jodka.
Sure, let's go defend some FREEDOM! Let's go get all COLUMBINE on their terrorist asses! Yeah! Sheeeeit! I can do eighteen months standing on my head!
Aw, it was just some non-Christian sand-nigger...
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To bad for him he's in Military Court, if he was the atypical Ghetto Slug doing the exact same thing in Oakland he would have had a chance to appeal any desicion made to the maggot infested 5th Court of Appeals in San Franshitsco and would have walked because the judge was so mean and a closet racist.Sure, let's go defend some FREEDOM! Let's go get all COLUMBINE on their terrorist asses! Yeah! Sheeeeit! I can do eighteen months standing on my head!
Re: Aw, it was just some non-Christian sand-mvscal...
LTS TRN 2 wrote:I support Islam.
Yes, we know.
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
Well, we've got to admit, the transmogrification of babs appears no mere ruse or sarcastic jest.
And now perhaps we can expect a similar full-immersion conversion on Rummy and his German vacation
http://dutyisours.com/desertbaptism.jpg ... aptism.jpg[/img]
"Now son, do you accept that Rummy and Cheney are in fact heinous criminals who've come into the world to visit destruction and terror?..."
The rest of you can start thinking up witticisms for the forthcoming trial of yet another U.S. marine--facing the death penalty for rape, murder, etc.
WW
And now perhaps we can expect a similar full-immersion conversion on Rummy and his German vacation
http://dutyisours.com/desertbaptism.jpg ... aptism.jpg[/img]
"Now son, do you accept that Rummy and Cheney are in fact heinous criminals who've come into the world to visit destruction and terror?..."
The rest of you can start thinking up witticisms for the forthcoming trial of yet another U.S. marine--facing the death penalty for rape, murder, etc.
WW
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Hey shit troll, how about this link?LTS TRN 2 wrote:pfffft!
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/12min.htm
BSmack wrote:Best. AP take. Ever.
Seriously. I don't disagree with a word of it.
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Water boarding is where they put you on a board, put some cloth over your nose and mouth and then pour water over it to a point you think you are going to suffocate.
We went through that in Navy SERE school. Now that's torture?
We went through that in Navy SERE school. Now that's torture?
BSmack wrote:Best. AP take. Ever.
Seriously. I don't disagree with a word of it.
Babs, your logic is up and running. Okay...now apply that same formula (of murder under the color of military action) and apply it to Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld as they fabricated intelligence, muzzled conflicting intelligence, smeared critics and cajoled allies--to the direct purpose of inflicting an invasion of a soverign nation, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, as well as the destruction of basic social infrastructure of millions of survivors.
Now...as the troops stand in review, to witness the administration of military justice, the culprits, Cheney and Rummy (and their drooling Project For New American Century accomplices), are led out in the grey wet dawn...stood before a firing squad, and summarily executed. And the world breathes a sigh of relief.
Now...as the troops stand in review, to witness the administration of military justice, the culprits, Cheney and Rummy (and their drooling Project For New American Century accomplices), are led out in the grey wet dawn...stood before a firing squad, and summarily executed. And the world breathes a sigh of relief.