"A friend currently serving in Iraq gave me permission to post
these comments of his:

   Interesting series of letters in the Stars and Stripes lately, with
   many service members of all ranks writing in to criticize Bush, and
   several others writing back to say they weren't permitted to do that
   under Article 88 of the UCMJ and Article 92 of the UCMJ. Finally a
   JAG lawyer wrote in to say that criticism itself isn't illegal under
   Article 88, as long as no contempt is expressed, and Article 92
   doesn't apply because that is about failure to follow orders.

   Now here is where it gets really interesting...At this point, a
   Major writes in to point out that in fact, Article 88 has been
   refined recently by DoD directive 1344.10, governing political
   activity by military personnel. The directive specifically states
   that a service member may not use contemptuous language against an
   office holder, which is further defined as the President, Vice
   President, Congress, Secretary of Defense, the secretary of a
   military department, and so on down to the state level.

   So what it amounts to is this: if a service member criticizes anyone
   in office, they can be busted if their langauge is found to be
   "contemptuous." I have yet to see this regulation applied, but the
   means is there.

   When was the DoD directive signed? August 2nd, 2004--under George
   W. Bush.

See http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html2/d134410x.htm
for the full text of that DoD directive".

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