Re: Watada update...



"Dan Birchall" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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m.purves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Maren at google) wrote:

On Oct 4, 6:30 pm, "Alvin E. Toda" <a...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Looks like the Liutenant's case is again in the news.
Son of our past campaign finance commission's chair who
went after many violation of the past mayor, he refused
to be deployed to Iraq. Anyway, looks like he has asked
for a delay in his trial so that he can appeal the last
court decision to a higher court-- basing his appeal on
double jeopardy. The wheels of justice grind slowly and
are expensive. His unit will be returning soon.

IMHO, if he didn't want to deploy he shouldn't have joined
the service (which branch ever)

In general, I tend to agree that would have been a wiser course
of action.

That said, my understanding is that Lt. Watada has already served
in one overseas deployment (S. Korea), and has explicitly offered
to deploy to Afghanistan, but that he believes the war in Iraq to
be illegal under US law and international treaties.

So it's complicated. :)


I do not see it as that complicated. I would think a stronger argument
could be made that the war in Afghanistan was illegal, then the war in Iraq.

.

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