Another Military Hero?

THE AMAZING THING ABOUT THE MILITARY PEOPLE THAT COME FOREWARD IS THAT THEY ARE TRAINED TO DO THEIR JOB AND OBEY ORDERS ... BUT THEY KNOW THEIR PRIMARY JOB IS TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.. SO ONE BY ONE THEY ARE FINDING THEY CANNOT JUST "OBEY ORDERS" THEY MUST DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, EVEN IF IT MEANS TAKING A STAND AGAINST THEIR SUPERIORS. SO PLEASE READ, OR LISTEN, TO TODAYS STORY ABOUT COLBY VOKEY AND BE PROUD THAT ANOTHER OF OUR BEST HAS COME FOREWARD TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION....

"By all accounts, Colby Vokey is a model officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, at one point helping command an artillery unit in Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991.
For the past four years, Vokey has served as chief of all the Corps' defense lawyers in the western United States — and he's played a key role in some of the military's most sensitive legal issues, including the murder investigation in Haditha, Iraq, and in the debate about detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
"Colby Vokey?" muses retired Col. Jane Siegel "Integrity almost seems like a word too small to describe him." "

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WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE, TAKE IT FROM ONE WHO KNOWS FIRST HAND

The fact that politicians are fully willing to debate the approapriateness of torture with a straight face is a shameful chapter in our current history. If you are one of the ethically challenged, who believes that it is imperative "for our safety" that we torture purported enemies, then please read what Malcolm Nance has to say about waterboarding at www.smallwarsjournal.com...

" It has been reported that both the Army and Navy SERE school’s interrogation manuals were used to form the interrogation techniques used by the US army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What was not mentioned in most articles was that SERE was designed to show how an evil totalitarian, enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture technique."

"In fact, waterboarding is just the type of torture then Lt. Commander John McCain had to endure at the hands of the North Vietnamese. As a former Master Instructor and Chief of Training at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE) in San Diego, California I know the waterboard personally and intimately. SERE staff were required undergo the waterboard at its fullest. I was no exception. I have personally led, witnessed and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people. "
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