[Grovenet] War Hero or Traitor?

[David Morelli]

On Jan 6, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> We've beat to death the President's assertions that Saddam had WMD  
> in Iraq that he intended to use against America.
>
> Here's a US Army officer who has taken action; drastic, dangerous  
> action that may well land him in jail for a long time.
>
> First Lt. Ehren Watada, a 28-year-old Hawaii native, is the first  
> commissioned officer in the U.S. to publicly refuse deployment to  
> Iraq. He announced last June his decision not to deploy on the  
> grounds the war is illegal.
>
> ...
> Watada's court martial is on February 5. A pre-trial hearing is set  
> for January 4, with an added scope of controversy: the Army has  
> ordered two freelance journalists, Sarah Olson and Dahr Jamail, to  
> testify against Lt. Watada at the hearing. Both journalists are  
> fighting the subpoenas.
>
> ...
> EHREN WATADA: Sure. I think that in March of 2003 when I joined up,  
> I, like many Americans, believed the administration when they said  
> the threat from Iraq was imminent - that there were weapons of mass  
> destruction all throughout Iraq; that there were stockpiles of it;  
> and because of     Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda and the 9/11  
> terrorist acts, the threat was imminent and we needed to invade  
> that country immediately in order to neutralize that threat.
>
> Since then I think I, as many, many Americans are realizing, that  
> those justifications were intentionally falsified in order to fit a  
> policy established long before 9/11 of just toppling the Saddam  
> Hussein regime and setting up an American presence in Iraq.


I wonder if his lawyer has requested a disposition from this  
officer's Commander In Chief, since the invasion order originated  
directly from that source?

It would be interesting to speculate on the questions that should be  
included in that disposition.

David