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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Sep 5 2003, 11:51 AM
I didn't see anything in the quoted article that was personally critical of Rumsfeld, or qualified as "bringing discredit on the service." Members of the Armed Forces are still citizens and have the right to free speech - including the right to bitch, which they exercise quite frequently. Comments like this fall into a gray area.
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Gray area indeed. Soldiers are citizens, yes... but they are not civilians.
Whether it's peacetime or wartime.
How much of a right to free speech do they have is a good question.