Ask yourself this... honestly.
What if the alleged victim had been a male?
I bet the cadet would be sitting on his hands in a holding cell, somewhere.
If you need any evidence that the military harbors a strong hatred of homosexual males AND women, that would be it.

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Throw the book at him. Once he is convicted.

Laney

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training for his job in Abu Ghraib or Gitmo. Maybe working on a resume for Blackwater.

The death spiral of America continues.

If he is found innocent can we even beleive it anymore? What are we becoming?

Stay tuned!!

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I've never been a screaming feminist but it seems like men in general are afraid to death of women and they feel like the only way to keep them in line is by violence. What type of violence? Sexual. Mainly because men are basically all misogynists. Every where there is currently unrest in any country, rape is used as a tool in that unrest or war or what ever the misogynists call it. I guess our own military is training our good young men how to employ this technique. Women are allowed to join the military so our soldiers have somebody to practice these techniques on. Disgusting. This country needs a leader who will take on the military and every other woman hating group currently preying on women.

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Try the treatment handed out to "enemy combatants". Arrested, interrogated under extreme duress (gee, sounds like torture), denied access to legal representation, denied certain tenets of your faith, symbols of that faith desecrated and destroyed in front of you, held continuously for four or more years without any charge being laid, at risk of being renditioned to a foreign country where extreme torture will be practised upon you, kept in solitary confinement and shackled during the brief periods of exposure to daylight.

Still think we are being tough on this rapist?

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If you just look at the evidence, you will see that this is a frightening trend. At least 37 female soldiers have reported being sexually assaulted while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And that is only an estimate since the DOD won't release the true numbers - they aren't very accurate record-keepers! And the estimate is only 1 in 7 sexual assaults are even reported, and this also comes from DOD, which doesn't feel the need for accuracy, so the numbers could be (and most likely are) exponentially higher.

Then there's the young woman from Texas who worked in Iraq as a contractor for KBR (subsidiary of Halliburton) and was gang-raped by at least 9 of her fellow employees, and when she reported it to her superiors, she was put into a shipping container for 24 hours with no food or water. Only a call to her father back in Texas, who called his congressman, who called the State Department, who came and rescued her FINALLY, ended her torture. And what will happen to these KBR contractors who did this to her? Absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. They have announced that they have no plans to prosecute any of them. They claim there is a question of "jurisdiction" that can't be sorted out. Not sure who should prosecute, so no prosecution. And so she has been left to file a civil suit in hopes she can get some form of accountability and justice.

To say this is SHAMEFUL is a vast understatement. And the blame comes from the very top. Yet one more thing that Bush can be proud of.

This isn't my country anymore.

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There is nothing wrong with treating a rapist like a rapist. But there is a huge difference between being accused of having committed a horrible crime, and actually having done so.

The difference between those two, is the most fundamental precept of equality.

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this cadet is being charged in a system where anyone with a higher rank can tell you not to do something and it instantly becomes a federal law.
The details of this case are not public and one cannot rush to judgement. The young man's life has already been ruined for a crime he has not been convicted of.
As wrong as it is for someone to cry rape, given the number of unreported true cases, keep in my that in the military there are specific LAWS about sexual interaction between cadets that can get both parties expelled. While it is not fair, it is not unheard of for a woman to do such a thing when in trouble.

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