An American Hero

[indahook]

Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:

That's what the Nazis said at the Nuremberg trials...

Thats right. When you voluntarily join the military you become a jackbooted Waffen-SS butt boy and theres not a fucking thing you can do about it. Except fight or go to prison.


He knew this. So he fights or goes to prison.

Third choice he gave up after he signed.

 

[CaptainObvious]

Hero? No! A man of principles? Perhaps! Either way, it's irrelevant. The military isn't a democracy. His political ideology means nothing. He has no vote in the matter! He gets orders, he goes, or goes to jail. Simple as that! Volunteers don't get to be conscientious objectors after the fact. He knew that when he signed on the dotted line.

 

[ratboy88]

Quote from indahook:

Perhaps. But our military became a lot more than domestic defense forces long ago. And this man knew it when he joined.

Once you are in the military you are not entitled to pick and choose conflicts to engage in.

you have to choose between your God or criminal men's laws??? no brainer!!! sorry some of us would prefer not going to Hell.

 

[ktmexc20]

Did those of you who watched the Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony want to reach out and smack the President for not having the fore-thought to have a handkerchief to offer the grieving mother.

I could not believe, while I was waiting for the handkerchief to appear, that it never manifested.

Shame on you Mr President... for not having fore-thought in any of your acts of importance.

 

[Arnie]

I hope he gets a nice long prison sentence. When you JOIN the army you don't get the privilege or right to decline a deployment. And who the hell is he to judge what's "legal".

 

[ZZZzzzzzzz]

You strike me as the kind of guy a couple thousand years ago who would have wanted Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth to get a nice long prison sentence because what he was preaching was not "legal" according to the Jewish leaders....

As I said previously, I don't expect the neocons to understand what a conscientious objector is, as it requires having a conscience...

Quote from Arnie:

I hope he gets a nice long prison sentence. When you JOIN the army you don't get the privilege or right to decline a deployment. And who the hell is he to judge what's "legal".

 

[OldTrader]

Perhaps we could have Cindy Sheehan give him a medal!

And then right afterwards we could have the members of the military vote on what conflicts and/or wars they approve of, prior to any engagements.

Hero my ass. You do dishonor to all of the true military heros who have risked their life and/or lost their lives in military engagements.

OldTrader

 

[Bitstream]

i am not sure i would call him a 'hero'. but i sure cant blame him for skipping a nonsensical and baseless war.

 

[ZZZzzzzzzz]

More black and white, all or nothing thinking...

Why can't both be heroes, doing in their own way what is heroic?

Quote from OldTrader:

Perhaps we could have Cindy Sheehan give him a medal!

And then right afterwards we could have the members of the military vote on what conflicts and/or wars they approve of, prior to any engagements.

Hero my ass. You do dishonor to all of the true military heros who have risked their life and/or lost their lives in military engagements.

OldTrader

 

[ratboy88]

Quote from OldTrader:

Perhaps we could have Cindy Sheehan give him a medal!

And then right afterwards we could have the members of the military vote on what conflicts and/or wars they approve of, prior to any engagements.

Hero my ass. You do dishonor to all of the true military heros who have risked their life and/or lost their lives in military engagements.

OldTrader

you have absolutely no idea what you are babbling about. these war criminals are not americans.... they are thugs and organized crime elements. go do some frikiin research before you come on here and make a fool of yourself once again. you were wrong about the RE bubble and you are dead wrong about this.

if you like killing people based on lies then go sign up and head to iraq yourself. but leave the american sons and daughters out of it..... people like you are the reason the criminals are getting away with it.

save your misguided arrogance for the RE threads where you can watch the debt bubble work its magic.