Officer Refuses Orders to Fight in Iraq

Officer refuses orders to fight in Iraq <--click for Seattle Times article

"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration," Watada said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Fort Lewis. "It is the duty, the obligation of every soldier, and specifically the officers, to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every order—including the order to go to war."

From ABC news <--click for link to article

"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the United States Army to speak out against grave injustices." said 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a member of the Stryker unit, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. "My moral and legal obligation is to the Constitution and not those who would issue unlawful orders. It is my conclusion as an officer of the armed forces that the war in Iraq is not only morally wrong, but a horrible breach of American law."

If all of our officers acted on their patriotic duty they would be refusing these illegal orders, honor their oath to uphold the Constitution and call into question the imbalance in Washington D.C. to confront our real reasons for fighting these Middle Eastern wars.

A New World Order may indeed be something that is needed to address the planet's problems, however forcing it at gunpoint is just plain ignorant, incompassionate, hateful and wrong. Foreign policy is conducted with little regard to anything except the preservation of concentrated wealth. The federal reserve is in private hands. When's the last time there was a true accounting done at Fort Knox? I'm just sayin....

The Bankruptcy of the United States

Perhaps a clue as to why some feel the need to go to war. Follow the money. What or who are we really fighting for?