[BigGuy22]

"And that IS what she said"
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That is absolute, total BS. If you think she said that, let's see a quote. I've read her opinion in full several times, and I've quoted from it here. You are lying. She said nothing like that

She said not a single word about whether orders coming from Obama would have been lawful. The orders didn't come from him, so the question of whether they would have been lawful if they had come from him was irrelevant to the issues in the court-martial, and she said that in her opinion.

You can say it as many times as you like, but a lie is still a lie. Col. Lind's opinion is available online. Have you even looked at it? If there's a quotation in it that supports your position let's see it. Otherwise -- BS. Nothing but pure, unadulterated BS.

[butterdezillion]

You are a total waste of my time, but for the sake of any lurkers: Before making any ruling she said that she would not accept any argument on the basis of Obama’s ineligibility, because the eligibility of the President is “irrelevant” to the lawfulness of Lakin’s orders.

That means it could have been Joseph Stalin who ordered the Afghanistan surge, and the orders to Lakin would still be “lawful”.

The very quotes that BigGuy22 (who has never posted on anything on FR except opposing the “birthers”) gives from Lind show the reasons she gave for saying that the eligibility of the President is “irrelevant”. What he’s quoting makes my point. BigGuy just doesn’t want to admit that this is what she actually ruled. She effectively ruled that Joseph Stalin, if sworn in as POTUS, could LAWFULLY order combat operations anywhere in the world, and there’s not a dang thing anybody in the military could do about it. Even if Stalin came right out and said to the world that he is Joseph Stalin and he will bring America to her knees and make Russia lord of all. It is “irrelevant” because the Constitution, War Powers Act, Authorization to Use Force, and the protocols and rules of the military allow foreign enemy combatants to give lawful orders to the chain of command, as long as they first take an oath of office.