COWARD!
The next Cindy Sheehan has surfaced out of Fort Lewis, Washington.
Conscientious Rejector?
First Lieutenant Ehren Watada still refuses Iraq deployment orders, calling the war illegal. A six-year prison term could result. Preliminary hearings are set for Thursday.
The fact that this “officer” is refusing to go to Iraq sickens me. Throughout the entire article this disgusting excuse for a Lieutenant talks about the legality of the war without citing any laws that the war violates. And what’s worse is that he thinks that he can dictate what’s lawful and what is not. Military personnel do not dictate the foreign policy of the United States.
SITES: You know on that note, Lieutenant, let me read you something from a speech that you gave in August to the Veterans for Peace. You had said at one point, “Many have said this about the World Trade Towers: never again. I agree, never again will we allow those who threaten our way of life to reign free. Be they terrorists or elected officials. The time to fight back is now, the time to stand up and be counted is today.” Who were you speaking about when you said that?
WATADA: I was speaking about everybody. The American people. That we all have that duty, that obligation, that responsibility to do something when we see our government perpetrating a crime upon the world, or even upon us. And I think that the American people have lost that, that sense of duty. There is no self-interest in this war for the vast majority of the American people. And because of that the American soldiers have suffered.
Way to go, moron… Blame the US Government for 9/11. Hate the country that you swore to defend. Hate the people that you swore to defend. Not once in his response did he mention terrorists. This guy is 100% looking for his fifteen minutes and is heir apparent to Cindy Sheehan. He’ll be lauded by the left for his heroism, but in reality he is just a coward latching onto others who praise our enemies and loathe America.
SITES: Do you think President Bush and his advisers are guilty of criminal conduct in the prosecution of this war?
WATADA: That’s not something for me to determine. I think it’s for the newly-elected congress to determine during the investigations that they should hold over this war, and pre-war intelligence.
SITES: But in some ways you have determined that. You’re saying this is an illegal war, and an illegal act usually takes prosecution by someone with criminal intent. Is that correct?
Finally… The interviewer calls him on something.
WATADA: The constitution was established, and our laws are established, to protect human rights, to protect equal rights and constitutional civil liberties. And I think we have people in power who say that those laws, or those principles, do not apply to them — that they are above the law and can do whatever it takes to manipulate or create laws that enable them to do whatever they please. And that is a danger in our country, and I think the war in Iraq is just one symptom of this agenda. And I think as soldiers, as American people, we need to recognize this, and we need to put a stop to it before it’s too late.
He got one thing right: people who do whatever they please are a danger to our country. It’s too bad that he can’t see that it is he who has power as a commissioned officer in the most powerful army in the world and thinks that the laws don’t apply to him.
Six years is too little for this traitor… this coward… Officers who act like this need to be executed. I’m sure that it could happen with little fanfare if they sent his sorry butt to the desert with his previous unit. (If you read the article you will learn that he was moved from his “meat eater” Combat Brigade to a “grass eater” Corp job.)
