“Right? That’s what she said?”
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No, now you’re getting further away again.
Think about it, Butter. The Army has been in business for a long time, and they live or die on whether people can be counted on to obey their orders. Have you ever been in the military? Everyone who has knows that you have to obey your orders. The rules are very strict and they are stacked against you: It’s in the Army’s interests to make sure that orders are not disobeyed, and they’ve constructed the rules accordingly.
If your commanding officer tells you to report to his office, you better report to his office. Lakin’s commanding officer ordered him to report to his office. He was absolutely authorized to give that order, so it was a lawful order. Lakin had the obligation to obey it. He did not.
That’s all the court-martial was about. Lakin was stupid enough to believe that he could make it into a trial of the President, but that was a dumb pipe dream, and Col. Lind’s ruling makes it very clear why that was the case. I’m sorry you’re unhappy with it, but I haven’t yet heard anyone knowledgeable about military law say that she called this one wrong.
I’m not talking about who has to obey orders. I’m talking about the LAWFULNESS of orders.
And Lind said that whether the President is QUALIFIED makes NO DIFFERENCE to the lawfulness of the orders. IOW, it could be Osama Bin Laden himself telling the military to carry out combat operations, and the military would all just have to bow and obey.
That’s what she said. Right?
And you’re agreeing with her?