Another blood-boiler. Here's a young man, who has served in Iraq, and has seen more than any 32-year old or even 96-year old should. He didn't like it, and has now been called a coward by the Army and is being charged with Cowardice (a UCMJ-punishable offense) by the Army. Per usual the journalists have hosed up the story, he's not going on trial yet (if ever), but to an Article 32 hearing which is like a Grand Jury in the civilian world...ham sandwiches not withstanding. Anyhow, here's the story:

Not since the Vietnam War has the Army punished a soldier for being too scared to do his duty.

But on Friday, Sgt. Georg Andreas Pogany will appear in front of military court here to face charges he was a coward.

The Army says he is guilty of "cowardly conduct as a result of fear" and not performing his duties as an interrogator for a squad of Green Berets in Samarra, Iraq.

But Sergeant Pogany says he did not run from the enemy or disobey orders. The only thing he is guilty of, he says, is asking for help for a panic attack.
On his second night in Iraq, one month ago, Sergeant Pogany, 32, saw an Iraqi cut in half by a machine gun. The sight disturbed him so much, he said, he threw up and shook for hours. His head pounded and his chest hurt.

SGT Pogany saw something that was studiously avoided by those who sent hime there...all the Chickenhawks. And now they are prosecuting him...would they have fared any better? Doubtful, but see, we'll never know, they refused to go from the Deserter-in-Chief on down. How would President Dumbass have reacted if he saw someone cut in half in front of him? I'm betting sobriety might have been more of an issue in his worthless existance. But he went to the Champagne Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard, and even ran away from that cushy job.

Where among the senior Civilian ranks does the Moral Authority come from to even question these men? There is none...they barely have any law on their side to prosecute this young man. The last successful prosecution was in 1968 and that soldier actually ran away.

Cowardice cases are very rare. According to the Department of Defense, in 1968 Pvt. Michael Gross was found guilty of running away from his company in Vietnam and sentenced to two years in prison. His case is the last cowardice conviction on the books.

Maybe those charges need to be re-examined in light of this case.