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Iraq an ILLEGAL WAR! soldiers duty to not obey illegal orders.
I agree with a previous comment by Cheryl and find it important to add information of how others can find how wrong it is for this war to not only continue but the reasons that our soldiers fighting this war are following illegal orders and are having the information kept from them by keeping the subject of it being an illegal war out of the news along with the oath they took upon entering the military. The film touched upon the oath briefly but the whole oath was not completed and the reference in the oath to the UCMJ was omitted where it concerns following orders "ACCORDING TO THE REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE". The UCMJ in which military personnel have an obligation and a duty to disobey Unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the UCMJ. To learn of the illegality of this Iraq war, preemptive war, war crimes, wars against peace and of an officer who has refused deployment to Iraq for 2 years and had his court martial indefinately suspended because of the refusal of out judicial system to accept evidence at his trial by witnesses he called to his defence to prove the war illegal. These witnesses are prominent people, lawyers and experts on international laws that refer to our treaties made after WWII concerning the Nuremberg war trials and the international court at the Hague and how we of the USA will be at some future time be accountable for our actions as a nation and individually fot the war crime deaths of so many of our own and other nations soldiers and civilians.Do research for this at these web sites ....www.thankyoult.org.........www.sagaw.org...........www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org. There are also many others if you do searches. Presently there are plans to bring criminal complaint charges against many persons in the present administration by other countries and in this country which is to commence January 28th 2009 after this administration leaves office. For example the Andover Law School has recently convened a Bush war crimes conference. The truth about the illegality of this war has been kept from our troops as much as possible and the rest of us by those that have the power and influence to control most of the main stream media. The truth can still be found and when enough of us find it we must do something to make them accountable. That last step is the most important because in doing nothing we are complicit with their war crimes.