SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Colonel Anne Wright on Resistance to Illegal Iraq War
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"Despite the “yes, sir” attitude of senior militaryofficers toward the Bush administration’s illegalpolicies, there is resistance within the U.S. military to the war on Iraq. Military personnel know they have the right and duty to refuse illegal orders, including the order to deploy to an illegal war. They know theUnited States executed German and Japanese military officers and civilians for their participation in warsof aggression in World War II. They know that the Nuremberg principles adopted by the internationalcommunity after World War II require civilians and military personnel to stop their government from committing illegal acts. Those in the military who dissent and resist to what they know are illegal actions of the Bush administration are persons of thehighest courage and conscience."
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