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To: Artemis Webb

“Sorry but you can’t have members of the military deciding they can interpret The Constitution of their own accord and that their interpretation should be legally binding.”

Guess you were never in the military. One of the things they taught you in basic was to never obey an illegal order. It was up to you to determine...


19 posted on 04/07/2010 11:23:56 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: babygene

One of the most impassioned speeches I have ever heard was from a Lieutenant Colonel who was redeploying from Iraq to his home station. I sat in awe as he explained that the US military is the only military in the world that swears an oath not to a person or country but an idea articulated in the document that is the US Constitution. They pledge their very lives to the defense of that idea.


25 posted on 04/07/2010 11:31:40 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Obie Wan Nairobi from the 1/2 dark side. The farce strong with this one, it is...)
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To: babygene
One of the things they taught you in basic was to never obey an illegal order. It was up to you to determine...

Really? Tell that to people like Michael New and Ehren Watada.

108 posted on 04/08/2010 4:38:19 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: babygene

It’s obvious he was never in the military — he can’t even spell Court MARTIAL.


248 posted on 04/08/2010 4:08:41 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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