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To: danamco; Candor7; LucyT; OldDeckHand; Jack Black; BuckeyeTexan

Yes, you did say that, and no, I’m not going to go back thru various posts to prove it.

Living under Hitler has nothing to do with living under Obama. If you think this is the equivalent of Germany in 1939...well, let your words reveal you.

President Obama deserves the same legal protections President GW Bush had - no more, no less. The law provides protection to the evil as well as the good, which is important. There were and are a lot of folks that want to call GWB evil and use the law to hunt him down...

What I have maintained and continue to maintain, and what is NOT traitorous to maintain, is that if Obama was born in Hawaii, then the phrase “natural born citizen” as applied by the courts includes him.

You do not have to agree with my assessment.

As for Lakin, he had orders to deploy and he refused to go. I deployed too often to have any stomach for people deciding which wars they want to support, or wanting to decide for themselves who is the President. The orders are backed by Congress when they funded the operation.

In the military, you don’t get to pick which orders to obey. IF THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL - such as when I was ordered to falsify a legal document, or if someone orders you to commit a war crime - THEN you can refuse...but you always do so at your own risk.

There is nothing illegal about deploying to Afghanistan.

This is the equivalent of an officer in 2003 refusing to go to war because he didn’t think GWB REALLY won the election. Those aren’t decisions for the military, and I say that as a former military officer.

During Kosovo, I had folks on FR calling me a baby killer because I said that deployment was legally binding. So be it.

Now there are folks who think I’m a horrible person because I say Obama IS the President, and will be so until Congress removes him or there is another election. So be it.

But if y’all are right, then EVERY order given since Jan 2009 is illegal, and the entire military should just quit. That means you do not understand the role of the military in a democratic society. The Founders were FAR more afraid of the military choosing political leaders than they were of someone born in America becoming President, regardless of his parentage.


382 posted on 04/29/2010 8:32:58 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Mr Rogers

Did you take the Anthrax vaccine?


384 posted on 04/29/2010 9:26:40 PM PDT by danamco (")
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To: Mr Rogers
As for Lakin, he had orders to deploy and he refused to go. I deployed too often to have any stomach for people deciding which wars they want to support, or wanting to decide for themselves who is the President. The orders are backed by Congress when they funded the operation.

You cannot compare Apples to Oranges!!!

Wen you took an Oath - if you did(?)- as an officer in the military, what did you swore to???

395 posted on 04/30/2010 8:27:06 AM PDT by danamco (")
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