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Watada Disgraces Uniform
1st Lt. Ehren Watada has chosen to desert from the Army, issuing the following statement(Fox News):
"It is my duty as a commissioned officer of the United States Army to speak out against grave injustices. My moral and legal obligation is to the Constitution and not those who would issue unlawful orders."
He is claiming that his orders to deploy to Iraq are unlawful, however, this is far from the truth. This disgrace to the uniform also stated:
"The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the Iraqi people with only limited accountability is not only a terrible moral injustice but a contradiction to the Army's own Law of Land Warfare."
He implies that the U.S. Army, in which he serves, is slaughtering Iraqi's. This allegation is, as anyone who knows anything about what is happening over there, false. Although there have been a few incidents, such as Abu Ghraib and other places, there has been (or currently are undergoing) investigations, and where wrong doing is found, such as the prison scandal, the perpetrators have been tried and punished.
Unlike militaries such as the former Soviet Union, Communist China, Vietnam and other regimes, the U.S. military is held to a high level of accountability (as are the armed forces of our closest allies, including Britain and Australia).
Watada, the new "hero" of the left, is a deserter, and should be tried and punished, given the dishonorable discharge he so richly deserves. And quickly.
What this disgrace to America is doing reminds me of the anti-war protests that took place while I was in college. Not in the '60s, but the '90s. Several years after I had received my Honorable discharge, and America was positioning Operation: Desert Shield, there were a number of anti-war rallies at which the big rah-rah speakers were people who had signed up for the Reserves or Guard and were loudly claiming they did not understand that when they signed up to serve their country that they might actually be called up to do exactly that. They cried and they whined, claiming to be conscientious objectors (horse hockey) and that they only signed up to get college benefits.
Watada needs to be charged, tried, sentenced to Leavenworth for desertion, then tossed out of the Army. He isn't good enough to wear the uniform, nor serve (and potentially lead) our brave men and women in the Armed Forces.
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