If only his last name was "Bush"
A Marine is being held at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on a charge of desertion for not going to war in Vietnam 40 years ago, a military spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Pvt. Jerry Texiero, 65, was arrested in August and charged with desertion. If he's court-martialed and found guilty of desertion, he could be sentenced to up to three years in the brig at Camp Lejeune and get a dishonorable discharge. Tod Ensign, an attorney with the advocacy group Citizen Soldier in New York, said Texiero left Camp Pendleton in 1965 because "he decided he wasn't going to be part of it and didn't go."
If only his last name was "Bush" then he could have said he was helping on a family friend's U.S. Senate campaign. Or maybe when he was young and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible. Or maybe he could just say he fulfilled his duties and then gone on to run failed businesses like not being able to find oil in Texas and then given some sweetheart deal as a part owner of a major league baseball team. Jerry would have added as much value as W did for the Texas Rangers. Alas, his last name is not "Bush" but "Texiero." And the term he'll get is three years in the pen rather than eight years at 1600 Penn.
posted by Crankyboy at 10:16 AM
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Isn't there a statute of limitation on this? 40 years.
Nope. No statute of limitations for desertion.
Ouch!
Don't they have better things to do like listen to PETA's phone calls?
If only his last name was "Bush" then he could have said he was helping on a family friend's U.S. Senate campaign.
Well said. If someone has the last name of "Bush" they can do just about anything they want to do these days. You really should send yout post into the papers as an editorial.
I followed your link from Petunia's. Nice place ya got here.
Thanks. Welcome aboard the cranky train.
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