Thursday, June 15, 2006

A Marine walks into an ambush

Michelle Malkin has an update on the "Hadji Girl", which is turning into a full blown jihad against Marine Cpl. Joshua Belile:

The witch hunt against the Marine who performed "Hadji Girl" continues. Military lawyers are scouring their books for a reason to punish Cpl. Joshua Belile:

Marine Corps officials said on Wednesday their preliminary inquiry will focus on whether Belile broke military law or rules in writing and singing a song with offensive lyrics to an audience of other troops. Another concern, they said, was maintaining "good order and discipline" in the ranks.

The Marines have called the song "clearly inappropriate."

"I cannot say if there is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice or the law of armed conflict. Lawyers have looked at it and they're kind of scratching their heads, which is why we're doing this preliminary inquiry," said Lt. Col. Scott Fazekas, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman at the Pentagon.

Maj. Shawn Haney, spokeswoman at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, said the preliminary inquiry is expected to last a couple of days. The military will then decide whether to move to a more formal investigation that potentially could lead to discipline.

At first I thought that this was a tempest in a teapot, now I see that it is deadly serious. JAG lawyers are pouring over the law books with a microscope seeing if they can find some reason, any reason, to charge this Marine with a crime.

I have a question. Why is CAIR even allowed to remain in this nation? During WWII did we allow the American branch of the Nazi Party to remain in operation and listen to them whenever thy complained about the way we were fighting the Germans?