Watada has balls Bush can only dream about...and probably does

Welcome to the new and improved SPIIDERWEB™ where I don't go off on profanity filled diatribes about my subject.

The first U.S. Army officer to refuse deployment to Iraq urged the public in a statement Wednesday to "stop the war so that the death and sacrifices of American soldiers will not be in vain" following a major legal setback in his court-martial proceedings.

First Lt. Ehren Watada, who is based at Ft. Lewis near Seattle, faces six years in prison for failing to deploy to Iraq last year with his Stryker brigade and for criticizing President Bush and the war in statements to the media and at a peace convention.

The 28-year-old Honolulu native has argued that the war is illegal because Bush did not obtain proper authorization for it, and that Army rules and the Nuremberg principles adopted after World War II required Watada to disobey orders to participate.

On Tuesday, however, Lt. Col. John M. Head, the military judge in the case, rejected Watada's request to debate the legality of the war at his court-martial next month. Although Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, had sought to open the question so the soldier could explain why he defied his deployment orders, Head ruled that the war's legality was a political question irrelevant to the charges at hand. [emphasis mine]

Jesus H Christ in underwear, what the fuck is that? The war is political? The war is not illegal? Watada hasn't the right to refuse to kill people in this war of choice? He has to ignore international law? Bush isn't a fucking war criminal?

If you remember, Natzi war criminals were not allowed to use the defense they were "only following orders".

OK, perhaps I lied to you at the top of this post. I'm just a peon. Its not like I'm the fucking president who is telling you lies.

I really have to ask my doc to up my meds.

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