Posted on 05/16/2008 8:41:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
US soldier refuses to serve in 'illegal Iraq war' May 16 10:49 AM US/Eastern Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
"I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told AFP.
"I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old, he added.
Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant.
He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq.
On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war.
"I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq," Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.
"My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation... I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation," he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.
Minutes earlier, Chiroux had cried openly as he listened to former comrades-in-arms testify before members of Congress about the failings of the Iraq war.
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Unfortunately that is very true. It constantly amazed me how Soldiers would respond with massive amounts of blind fire to a single shot from an unknown spot (usually in the next block over from them anyway). It was even an issue in my Company. I'm proud to say that my Soldiers only fired when they had actual targets to hit. They were very disciplined in their applications of deadly force.
someone call a cop!!!!
And give him a mandatory sex change operation.
TS. YOU don’t get to decide what’s legal and what isn’t. Toss his ass in the can. Or better yet, send him out on point. Permanently.
So this coward doesn’t want to go. I’ll gladly take his place; although the Marines (wouldn’t be in any other branch) would have to do some SERIOUS waiving of age limits.
Call me in his place.
Um...nice hair.
I wish they would go back to doing what the both the North and the South did durng similar cases of cowardice during the Civil War - Shoot the poor, dumb bastard.
Based on his comments, I would like to see evidence of the recall warning letter before I will believe him. I doubt that the Army needs photographers that badly.
So, while this arse whines on my dime, I can't serve because of a loose circuit breaker in my head. Ticks me off to hear stuff like this. I'd take a desk job in CONUS for the duration if that's all I could get.
Absolutely, that is precisely what I was thinking. Unless - he signed a 6-year contract, and has been stop-lossed. But that is very unlikely. I also don't think it's normal to go through IET and four duty stations in less than six years. I will be finishing up my second duty station at that point in my career (2011/2012).
Any idea what this a$$hat’s MOS is/was??? Sure as heck ain’t grunts or probably any other combat arms MOS.
From my time in the service so many years ago, an obilgation for service is 6 years. The time obligated is often broken up by active duty and inactive reserve, etc.....For the Army it was 2/4, Navy and Air Force 4/2.......It is also conceivable that the the 6 year obligation can be all active if conditions warrant....
“After he’s served his time, give him his dishonorable discharge, throw his butt out of the Army, and bill him for any bonuses he might have received.’
This is shades of John “Jenjis Khan” Kerry and the Winter Soldiers all over again. We know most of them - indeed, Kerry himself - were phonies. Given this, I wonder if the so-called MSM vetted any of these clowns to see if they really served. I am suspicious...
They were after me at 16, 32 years ago, to apply for the academy. My younger brother went to USAFA instead. I always wondered what would have been different...
Wanna know how I pissed off my army recruiter???? I joined the Marines!
I first thought some woodland creature had decided to take a nap on his dome.
Under Truman US troops were pulled out of S. Korea in 1949. Under Truman troops were sent back to Korea in 1950.
30,000 Americans died in Korea in 2 1/2 years because we were dumb enough to abandon S. Korea in 1949, when it was still weak and unstable.
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