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Instead of being raised to hero status by the press and public, Lynch should have been court-martialed. By her own admission, she threw down her weapon and just prayed. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I can assure you that the only heroes in the Jessica Lynch story are the troops who rescued her. DAN RAVEIA Fairfax...
...Instead of being raised to hero status, Lynch should have been court-martialed. By her own admission, she threw down her weapon and just prayed. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy. I am a Vietnam veteran, and I can assure you that the only heroes in the Jessica Lynch story are the troops who rescued her. Dan Raveia Fairfax...
...Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians." Navanethem Pillay, presiding judge of a U.N. criminal tribunal, convicting Ferdinand Nahimana of using a Rwandan radio station to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority...
...message implicit in Chen's Nov. 29 announcement to call a referendum: in the face of Chinese aggression, Taiwan?for the first time since it split with China in 1949?has the legal means by which to hold a nationwide vote on independence. "It's a powerful weapon for mustering emotional support from the international community should any threat be made by China to Taiwan's sovereignty," says a DPP official. "It's precisely the kind of tool China did not want us to have...
During the trial, Byrne admitted to striking Trombly, but he and his lawyer argued that Byrne had used reasonable force in a terrified, split-second reaction to seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon. Byrne said the object in question proved to be a cell phone, but Trombly and another BPD officer testified that the phone had been confiscated long before...