Posted on 02/08/2007 8:33:55 AM PST by Sopater
YES: 24.3% NO: 72.6% Not Sure: 3.1%
Number of Votes: 3519
Watada is the kind of officer that during annual training had his MILES gear set off so he'd be taken 'elsewhere' while the real work was done.
Watada a Hero?
Hardly.
He'd be lucky to be kicked in the butt by the boots of real heroes.
Do you think Lt. Ehren Watada is a hero?
24.4% Yes
72.5% No
3.1% Not sure
Total Votes: 3705
Was this pussy an ROTC guy? If so, is he paying us back for his education?
Watada is the kind of officer that guys in Vietnam would salute in public, so everybody and I mean EVERYBODY could see he was an officer.
Just because Congress did not have the balls to do their job and declare war doesn't justify Watada failing to do his.
I already FReeped this one.
I've been curious about this. I don't think so, because I have heard that he enlisted after we invaded Iraq, but I don't understand why he enlisted.
Yes.
Come to think of it, yes.
Do you think Lt. Ehren Watada is a hero?
24.5% Yes
72.3% No
3.2% Not sure
Total Votes: 3829
Done.
They phrased the question backwards. You don't ask if the coward is a hero. You ask if he is a coward. There is nothing heroic about someone who puts his own safety ahead of his duty.
Stopped reading after this..... "quotes civil rights icons" No doubt who the non-hero was. Bless the family of the young soldier who died.
I still think he should be taken out and shot for desertion.
In the eighteenth century, declarations of war were made ONLY when fighting an aggressive war. Since aggressive war is now illegal, no one in the world declares war.
Congress has the POWER to declare war. It does not have the obligation to declare war.
Do you think Lt. Ehren Watada is a hero?
25.2%
Yes
71.5%
No
3.4%
Not sure
Total Votes: 4618
Watada is a traitor, no less deserving of disdain than Taliban Johnny.
The officer is a yellow-bellied chicken $h!t. The soldier set the standard for honor.
A good quality of officers is leading from the front, not from a desk thousands of miles away from where his troops are dying.
Wilson and Roosevelt received declarations in response to acts of aggression (or at least in the case of Lusitania, under the premises of an act of aggression.) Even if Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack, the consequences of their non-compliance with the UN resolutions would not have prevented or inhibited a declaration...indeed, their firing on our aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones would have, IMHO, been adequate justification.
"Congress has the POWER to declare war. It does not have the obligation to declare war."
True enough....but likewise, we are in a state of war. Calling upon Congress to formally declare as much would have been psychologically better for the nation and, dispensed with a lot of the political quibling that has limited our ability to fight it properly.
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