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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Did you have to bring the Bush administration into this?? As much as I like incompetance uncovered this is now beating a dead horse. Relevence is key, ...
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Americans who cannot think like a responsible jury are why this happens. I consider one who does not raise his intelligence (intelligence is earned; not inherited) - to therefore be a responsible member of any jury - instead a classic example of an anti-American.
Two names who are victims of a national jury that does not do its job: Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker. A responsible American cannot for one minute ignore massive number of murders because we ignore facts.
This jury is still empowered. This national jury should be thinking as defined by my above definition of a patriotic American. We have two choices - so that future Menchaca and Tuckers do not happen. Either give the military what it needs - 500,000 troops - or a strategic objective to get out. Hard nose, unemotional thought process – and still some will not act as a responsible jury.
My point is why so many cannot make a decision without anything less than DNA evidence. Too many have an Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh perspective of life. A most common symptom is that they know - and yet don't know why. They don't ask nor demand the irrefutable facts. They instead use only emotion - feelings - to make a decision. And so we have more victims of a jury that will not make hard decisions: Menchaca and Tucker.
Do we need DNA before we acknowledge what the military needs? Yes. Unfortunately, too many don't know how to dig for the irrefutable fact. Instead a 'glove does not fit' becomes their entire replacement for hardnosed facts.
We have other examples. The Super Collider that does not exist and has long been desperately needed. ISS that does no science. The so many earth science experiments quashed because a president wants to put a man on Mars - for personal glory. The Challenger - where every engineer said don't launch. Columbia where a flight director could not even bother to learn why so many requests for information were being made by engineers. Or hype about someone jumping on Oprah's couch. Total nonsense to those who first demand facts and relevance. Examples of why juries might reject the testimony of two eyewitnesses to a murder only because no DNA evidence was presented.
And so because a national jury will not make a decision, two more victims: Menchaca and Tucker.
BTW, why do I list Menchaca and Tucker? Because some cannot see the blunt point I am making. So I give them something emotional to work with: Menchaca and Tucker. The inverse of a Catch 22?