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To: r9etb

My ridiculous posts?

I’m not the one here that is daring to suggest that our armed forces should obey any order Obama gives with out question.

As part of professional ethics training in the military I was trained to determine what constitutes a legal order and a legal order must come from someone that is in your legal authority, plain and simple.

All us little fellas in the Marines know that if we obey an illegal order from someone who shouldn’t be in our chain of command we are just as guilty as anyone else in the chain of command that follows it.

From a general to a private American soldiers have been trained not to blindly follow orders but to first determine if such orders are valid, it is that individual responsibility that has been one of the corner stones of what has made our soldiers the best.


82 posted on 07/14/2009 5:21:35 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: usmcobra
I’m not the one here that is daring to suggest that our armed forces should obey any order Obama gives with out question.

Neither am I. Are you being deliberately dishonest?

As part of professional ethics training in the military I was trained to determine what constitutes a legal order and a legal order must come from someone that is in your legal authority, plain and simple.

Is it illegal for the Army to order this man to Afghanistan? For them to order anybody to Afghanistan?

All us little fellas in the Marines know that if we obey an illegal order from someone who shouldn’t be in our chain of command we are just as guilty as anyone else in the chain of command that follows it.

Are you suggesting that the entire military chain of command is committing a crime by passing on illegal orders to fight the war in Afghanistan? If so, do you think the military should stop fighting there immediately? And if not, doesn't your whole argument collapse?

90 posted on 07/14/2009 5:28:54 PM PDT by r9etb
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