Durbin: Pardon scavenging GIs

by Antioch

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Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 at 9:47:34am PST

OK, this is my second Diary on Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), but this is the second time he's done something I really admire, so there.

President Bush should pardon six Army reservists from Ohio who were court-martialed for taking equipment to carry out their mission in Iraq, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday.

In a letter to the president, Durbin said the members of the 656th Transportation Company may have committed a technical violation and an error in judgment but the military should not have treated this mistake as a felony.

Bush, so far, has granted very few pardons, the least of any president in the last century. Durbin's call is far from a partisan issue and I think that Bush would do well by almost everyone to get these guys off the hook.

The whole article is here.