Quote from ratboy88:
so how many innocent people would you kill to please a criminal organization? will you kill little babies and rip their arms and legs off their bodies? or maybe burn their whole body to the point where they are much better off dead? you will do this for criminals because you think the law permits it? you dont call court martialled officers heros but if they refuse to aid war crimes they are greater than you will ever understand.
they answer to a higher calling than that of satanic chickenhawk warmongers.
Pathetic post ratsass. You're losing it.
When you make a post like this at least make an attempt to ground it in some degree of rationality. For instance, if you're going to call something a "criminal organization" (I presume this something is either the Bush administration, the military, or both), then at least make some attempt to show why it is in fact a "criminal organization".
Kill babies and rip their arms and legs off? Geezuz you moron. No one wants to kill babies. Sometimes in war it happens by mistake. No one does this purposely. If you have some type of evidence to the contrary, put it out there...but you don't.
While you may believe this Lieutenant is refusing to "aid war crimes", there have in fact been no "war crimes" illustrated either here in this thread, or elsewhere. All bullshit ratsass. This Lieutenant volunteered for military service. Prior to that, certainly he had the intelligence to think this decision over, to think about what it would be like to be ordered to do something that you may not agree with in principle. And presumably he came to peace with this idea, because he joined...voluntarily. No draft, no force...voluntarily. Having done so he is committed to an oath he took that he would follow the US Code of Military Justice. He went back on that oath when he failed to follow an order. And therefore, he is going to be court martialled by the military. Simple as that.
We have had many case of this type in the past. Usually what they amount to is a guy who becomes a chickenshit after he watches his fellow soldiers get injured and/or die...reads the reports...etc etc. My guess is that this is all this amounts to. It's not some high minded thing that he is contending or that you are defending. He's pure and simple a chickenshit. The military is going to courtmartial him...and he is going to prison. He's no hero.
By the way, ratsass....you been in the military?
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