The Glorious GitSlayer wrote:
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Deployment orders are not an illegal order, war was declared his job is to go where the military sends him. If he does not do so then he will be punished, because there is no way that he will be able to prove his case.
He is making an ethical choice concerning a decision by his country he considers unethical (also known as "illegal" under human rights laws), not a legal one (in the laws on the books sense).
Except that he and he alone is not the arbiter of what is and is not "illegal" in *any* sense. He's certainly free to
consider the decision to be unethical, but that's his own personal choice. I'm not sure how you leap from him making that determination on his own to it being "illegal under human rights laws". That's an absurd requirement.
Are you seriously trying to say that if any one single individual disagrees with a decision made by a government that this makes the decision "illegal" under humran rights laws (whatever those are)? Ridiculous. It's not "illegal" in any way at all. He signed a contract. He decided after the fact that he didn't want to follow the terms of the contract he signed. He's the one in violation of the law.
And yeah. Nobby's right. He's supposed to question illegal orders. And if you can find where it says in the constitution that a soldier being ordered to fight after the Congress has declared war (in this case authorized force under the war powers act), he might have a point. The fact is that Congress did vote. They did decide to send us to war. You can disagree with that decision all day long. You can question it. You can second guess it. But it is "legal". And therefore any order deriving from that decision is also legal.
He's not "bright". He's not someone to emulate or admire. He's a total freaking idiot who should never have put a uniform on in the first place. Clearly, he had no intention of ever fullfilling the duty he promised to do when he put it on in the first place. He's a disgrace to every soldier who has put that uniform on and fought and died for their country.
Edited, Jan 3rd 2007 2:19pm by gbaji