On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:29:17 -0000, Tuttle's Almanac
<Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote:

Military Officer Would Chose Jail Over Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2049982&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* Hawaii Native Protests Upcoming Deployment to Mosul

SEATTLE, June 7, 2007 - An Army officer due to
ship out to Iraq later this month would rather
go to jail than serve and complete the assignment.

"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the
United States Army to speak out against grave injustices."
said 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a member of the Stryker unit,
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. "My moral and
legal obligation is to the Constitution and not those
who would issue unlawful orders. It is my conclusion
as an officer of the armed forces that the war in Iraq
is not only morally wrong, but a horrible breach of American law."

Watada is a 28-year-old Hawaii native who said he twice
tried to resign his Army commission as an officer because
of his opposition to the Iraq War.

He has not previously served in Iraq but is scheduled
to deploy to the city of Mosul with his unit.

Watada joined the Army in 2003 and said he supported
the war at the outset because he believed Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. Since then, he said
he has become convinced the Bush administration
"intentionally manipulated intelligence" in order to go to war.

In an interview with The Seattle Times he said:
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed
by this administration. It is the duty, the obligation of
every soldier, and specifically the officers,
to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every
order - including the order to go to war."

Highest Ranking Protest to Date

Watada is the most senior officer to go public
and challenge his orders to go to Iraq.

Others have filed for conscientious objector status,
which is an objection to all war. Watada, however,
said he is not filing as a conscientious objector
because he does not oppose all war - just this one.

"The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the
Iraqi people with only limited accountability is
not only a terrible moral injustice but a
contradiction to the Army's own law of land warfare,"
Watada said.
_________________________________________

...now THIS is the type of military the libs love ... i can see it all
now... hundreds of candleholding Birkenstock liberals singing folk
songs outside his jail cell... chanting old wornout slogans, swayin'
back and forth with arms locked together in brotherhood .... i'll bet
y'all are just wettin yur panties with anticipation....

...now THIS is the type of military the libs love ... i can see it all
now... hundreds of candleholding Birkenstock liberals singing folk
songs outside his jail cell... chanting old wornout slogans, swayin'
back and forth with arms locked together in brotherhood .... i'll bet
y'all are just wettin yur panties with anticipation....

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:29:17 -0000, Tuttle's Almanac
<Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote:

Military Officer Would Chose Jail Over Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2049982&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* Hawaii Native Protests Upcoming Deployment to Mosul

...now THIS is the type of military the libs love ... i can see it all
now... hundreds of candleholding Birkenstock liberals singing folk
songs outside his jail cell... chanting old wornout slogans, swayin'
back and forth with arms locked together in brotherhood .... i'll bet
y'all are just wettin yur panties with anticipation....

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:29:17 -0000, Tuttle's Almanac
<Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote:

Military Officer Would Chose Jail Over Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2049982&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* Hawaii Native Protests Upcoming Deployment to Mosul

SEATTLE, June 7, 2007 — An Army officer due to
ship out to Iraq later this month would rather
go to jail than serve and complete the assignment.

"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the
United States Army to speak out against grave injustices."
said 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a member of the Stryker unit,
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. "My moral and
legal obligation is to the Constitution and not those
who would issue unlawful orders. It is my conclusion
as an officer of the armed forces that the war in Iraq
is not only morally wrong, but a horrible breach of American law."

Watada is a 28-year-old Hawaii native who said he twice
tried to resign his Army commission as an officer because
of his opposition to the Iraq War.

He has not previously served in Iraq but is scheduled
to deploy to the city of Mosul with his unit.

Watada joined the Army in 2003 and said he supported
the war at the outset because he believed Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. Since then, he said
he has become convinced the Bush administration
"intentionally manipulated intelligence" in order to go to war.

In an interview with The Seattle Times he said:
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed
by this administration. It is the duty, the obligation of
every soldier, and specifically the officers,
to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every
order - including the order to go to war."

Highest Ranking Protest to Date

Watada is the most senior officer to go public
and challenge his orders to go to Iraq.

Others have filed for conscientious objector status,
which is an objection to all war. Watada, however,
said he is not filing as a conscientious objector
because he does not oppose all war - just this one.

"The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the
Iraqi people with only limited accountability is
not only a terrible moral injustice but a
contradiction to the Army's own law of land warfare,"
Watada said.
_________________________________________

There have been wholesale slaughters of innocents in every war ever
fought in history, it's just one of it's many horrors. There's no
justification for it, and there's no policy to carry it out, but it
happens just the same. This man is extremely naive if he doesn't
realize that. You don't get to choose which wars you fight. He should
have been a conscientious objector, instead he's a hypocrite.

Bill Smith

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:29:17 -0000, Tuttle's Almanac
<Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote:

Military Officer Would Chose Jail Over Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2049982&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* Hawaii Native Protests Upcoming Deployment to Mosul

SEATTLE, June 7, 2007 - An Army officer due to
ship out to Iraq later this month would rather
go to jail than serve and complete the assignment.

Don't drop the soap.

"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the
United States Army to speak out against grave injustices."
said 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a member of the Stryker unit,
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. "My moral and
legal obligation is to the Constitution and not those
who would issue unlawful orders. It is my conclusion
as an officer of the armed forces that the war in Iraq
is not only morally wrong, but a horrible breach of American law."

Watada is a 28-year-old Hawaii native who said he twice
tried to resign his Army commission as an officer because
of his opposition to the Iraq War.

He has not previously served in Iraq but is scheduled
to deploy to the city of Mosul with his unit.

Watada joined the Army in 2003 and said he supported
the war at the outset because he believed Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. Since then, he said
he has become convinced the Bush administration
"intentionally manipulated intelligence" in order to go to war.

In an interview with The Seattle Times he said:
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed
by this administration. It is the duty, the obligation of
every soldier, and specifically the officers,
to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every
order - including the order to go to war."

Highest Ranking Protest to Date

Watada is the most senior officer to go public
and challenge his orders to go to Iraq.

Others have filed for conscientious objector status,
which is an objection to all war. Watada, however,
said he is not filing as a conscientious objector
because he does not oppose all war - just this one.

"The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the
Iraqi people with only limited accountability is
not only a terrible moral injustice but a
contradiction to the Army's own law of land warfare,"
Watada said.
_________________________________________

--
"Science is the record of dead religions." -- Oscar Wilde

"There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to
whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance

"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce

"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant

Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net

Tuttle's Almanac wrote:

Military Officer Would Chose Jail Over Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2049982&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

* Hawaii Native Protests Upcoming Deployment to Mosul

SEATTLE, June 7, 2007 - An Army officer due to
ship out to Iraq later this month would rather
go to jail than serve and complete the assignment.

"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the
United States Army..

"..to faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am
about to enter."
(from Army Officer Appointment Acceptance and Oath of Office)

I guess he lied.

Article 87 of the UCMJ:

"Any person subject to this chapter who through neglect or design
misses the movement of a ship, aircraft, or unit with which he is
required in the course of duty to move shall be punished as a
court-martial may direct."

Elements.

(1) That the accused was required in the course of duty to move with a
ship, aircraft or unit;

(2) That the accused knew of the prospective movement of the ship,
aircraft or unit;

(3) That the accused missed the movement of the ship, aircraft or unit;
and

(4) That the accused missed the movement through design or neglect.


Court marial his *****. Sentence him to hard labor making little rocks
out of big ones.


Yol Bolsun,
Grendel.

"Never underestimate the stupidity of liberals."