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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:11 AM Original message |
Watada has said that under the US constitution he has the right to refuse an illegal order |
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WGS (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. Poor guy |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. that's an interesting argument...i have no idea what it is, but it's interesting |
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Annces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Maybe he means Geneva Convention |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. he wasn't asked to interrogate anyone, just to deploy to Iraq |
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VenusRising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. I hope the judge's ruling sticks. |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. And he has the same right under the UCMJ. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. the UCMJ allows a subordinate officer to refuse an order? |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. If such an order is unlawful, then yes. |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Actually, you are. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. What was the order he refused? |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:34 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. he was ordered to deploy to Iraq, and refused |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:40 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Not sure what's illegal about being ordered to deploy to Iraq |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. His defense is tenuous, at best, in my non-lawyer opinion. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. that's why i'm really confused about his defense |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. War crimes are being committed in Iraq every day the USA is there |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
16. Under the precedents laid down at Nuremberg... |
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