[mlo]

"He was convicted because Denise Lind ruled that valid Presidential authorization is irrelevant to the authority to issue combat deployment orders."

Presidential authorization was irrelevant to the orders Larkin refused.

[butterdezillion]

Lakin refused to show up for the first leg of his deployment to Afghanistan - an order which was passed down through the chain of command and could only lawfully be initiated by Gates with the approval of the President.

Without valid Presidential authorization the orders failed requirement ii under lawfulness for Article 90. (See p 296 of the Manual for Courts-Martial at http://usmilitary.about.com/library/pdf/mcm2000.pdf )

[PA-RIVER]

Now, If Obama had ordered a Typical White Man to stand in front of a polling place with a billy club, that might be an illegal order if the voters were black. But then again, it might not be if a Wise Latina thought the typical White man needed to go to Leavenworth because we are a nation of cowards, as the AJ has clearly stated. Are we clear?