Reply #27: See, that's what I have a problem with... [View All]

[DEMActivist]

I were active duty I would have no choice but follow orders -- not matter how distasteful.

First, please don't take this as a personal attack, because I mean no dispresect to you or any of our troops.

That being said, I find this attitude misplaced and wrong. It is hypocritical for Americans to have called for the blood of Nazi troops at concentration camps and then find the above statement acceptable.

We can't allow the examples of Mai Lai to happen again.

We can't condone our trooops carrying out orders, regardless of whether or not those orders are wrong.

To do so would be to condone the death of innocents for a larger desire - in this case oil.

I can't go there and don't feel any support or sympathy for a soldier who doesn't have the courage to defy orders to do something immoral and/or wreckless.