Peace on Earth, or screw peaceniks

[cryowizard]

This guy refused to deploy to Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/46660B31-772A-45A1-A2B3-E176923F9B32.htm

I am not a military man, but even I know that a military man doesn't get to choose the deployments he goes on to. His ass belongs to Uncle Sam, pure and simple.

I can't say I support the war, especially how it was sold to us, but fuck this guy for downing the morale at the time of war, and fuck those "peacenik" idiots who undermine their own military by supporting what is basically a mutiny.

The fact that this article appears on al-Jazeera is not helping either. I bet they are happy to see our own fifth column cheer for this guy.

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[mhmeln-57.livejournal.com]

Hm, and i thought Nuremberg trials were pretty clear that a soldier remains responsible for carrying out an illegal order.

If the "morale" of the military can be undermined because someone speaks out against an illegal order, than FUCK THAT MORALE! It IS a mutiny, but somehow Americans LOOOOOVE to celebrate their mutiny in 1776. So what makes 1776 better than 2006?

Blind obedience is what led to nazi camps, Rwanda and...well, Iraq. Are you seriously going to defend blind obedience and declare people like...say, Hugh Thompson, Jr., to be undermining the "morale" of the army. Oh, let me refresh your memory on who Mr. Thompson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre) was:

The massacre was halted when Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, Jr., a 24-year-old helicopter pilot, landed his OH-23 and confronted Lt. Stephen Brooks about attacks on wounded Vietnamese civilians hiding in a bunker. Thompson threatened to have his two door gunners open fire on American servicemen with his ship's machine guns if the attacks continued.

Wataba is a hero for starting a mutiny in this conscience-numb, fill-my-belly-up, godforsaken country. Like many other people we know, he also "hates" his job, but he actually stood up and did something about it. Something other than moving to a better-paying job.