Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Marine Accused of Desertion...Disappears

The Marine who was thought to have been kidnapped in Iraq by terror groups but unexpectedly showed up at the U.S. Embassy in his native Lebanon, has "disappeared" once again. This time, he's gone missing...not in the sands of Iraq, but from an airport in Utah.

Given the highly dubious story that his captors transported him to Lebanon and dropped him off to see his family, that's not entirely unexpected.

Key questions: why did the military let a soldier accused of a crime go on leave? His family could have come to him. And what is going through this man's mind right now? And if he didn't want to play Marine in a war zone, why on earth did he volunteer to join them? It's still an all-volunteer military so he wasn't drafted. He could have joined another service that could have kept him out of the infantry.

When he's caught in Lebanon, he'll probably say he was trying to return to his unit in Iraq. Pathetic.

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