Posted on 02/02/2007 6:56:15 PM PST by TexKat
On the eve of America's invasion of Iraq, he was heartsick at the prospect that he might not be military material. He even shelled out $800 for medical tests to convince the recruiters that he was fit for duty despite childhood asthma that would ordinarily render him ineligible for service.
On Monday, that same eager recruit, now Lieutenant Ehren Watada, faces a court martial for refusing to deploy to Iraq and for making public statements against the war. He is the first officer to be prosecuted for publicly criticising the war - indeed the first since the Vietnam era when an army captain was court martialled for addressing an anti-war demonstration outside the US embassy in London. If he is convicted on all charges, Lt Watada could spend four years in a military prison.
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Hamg him.
Whether he's a coward or not, I wouldn't know. However I do think the whole thing is a set up, he joined so that he could refuse to go, get the publicity for the militant pacifist left and so forth. In this case the rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Instant replay - he's convicted. President Clinton grants amnesty and upgraded discharges for all those in his category. He's elected to Congress.
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