Reply #137: Who said anything about a coup? [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Just refuse to go to Iraq, which is an illegal war from start to finish under the Nuremberg principles.

Sorry, but it's true.

Your current assigned task is illegal under international law, and you and your buddies are dying and killing for a bunch of cowardly greedheads who have no more "support" for you than a chess player does for his pawns.

The hell with "doing your job." You're a pawn and nothing more, and the sooner the rank-and-file military recognize this fact and call bullshit on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and all the other crap Armed Forces radio and TV feed you, the better off we'll all be.

Wouldn't it have been nice if the German army had refused to fight in 1939? Some of the German generals considered refusing to invade Poland, but unfortunately, they concluded that they "had a job to do."

Yeah.

The longer I live, the more my position approaches pacificism. I've lived through the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the interventions in the Dominican Republic and the first intervention in Lebanon, the interventions in Central America, the first Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, and now this stupid ego trip.

Vietnam alone killed over 50,000 of my generation and irreparably damaged countless more in body and mind. Now another generation is being ravaged for greed and stupidity, while the children of the decision makers go around playing like Paris Hilton.

I wish American youth weren't such suckers.