Apparently a military justice agreed with this blag and other expert legal opinion. Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler's fierce defense of Omar Khadr earned the wrath of his commanding officer. Kuebler appealed to the justices on the hearing. And they agreed that only Khadr, the defendent, possessed the legitimate power to fire a defense attorney.
Khadr and others (with the exception of the US Department of the Navy) appear impressed with the unforgiving vigor of Kuebler's defense of Khadr. Colonel Masciola presented Kuebler as incompetent dispite the obvious fact that Kuebler frustrated the kangaroo nature of Masciola's position.
Colonel Masciola represents the Pentagon's choice to defend Khadr. Perplexingly Masciola is also the senior officer in charge of the prosecution of Khadr. He is both accuser and defender. It is a strange arrangement hatched by the Pentagon brain trust. Masciola drips with conflicting interests. His career only benefits if he manages to have Khadr hang. Kuebler on the other hand leads an able defense of Khadr.
Masciola and the Pentagon chose Lt. Cmdr William Kuebler because this man is a Republican, and a deeply religious Christian, a man of the right kind of morals. At first view, this would be the complete worst person to represent Khadr. But what has confounded his superior officers is that Kuebler also possesses a deeply seated sense of ethics. It must be a sense of ethics that most of the US Department of the Navy lacks. Kuebler believes that he must defend Khadr with enthusiastic vigor in the trueist definition of democratic justice, despite the difference in cultural views and despite the fact that Khadr is for all tenses an enemy of the United States.
Kuebler appears to be one of those rare individuals with very strong sense of morality. Khadr seems to respond positively to this honesty wishing that Kuebler continue to be his defense attorney. I know my opinion counts for little. But I am overwhelming glad this person continues.
Someday William Kuebler must run for the office of President of the United States. He is the right stuff.
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There may have been neither honor nor character in the previous U.S. political administration but there is apparently still honor and character in the body of the U.S. military.
"Duty, Honor, Country" do still mean something positive to some people.
The motto, "Oil, Power, Greed" just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?
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