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Originally Posted by scout
Have you also thought about the fact that if this war is "illegal" then that would make every single one of our personnel in the military that participate in this war criminals? It is against the UCMJ and international law to obey a unlawful order. Not a very good way to get votes, perhaps that's why even Kerry doesn't bring up this argument anymore.
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Just a quick observation and in all honesty it IS an observation and OPINION and nothing more.
As for disobeying the UCMJ we already have soldiers who have, Abu Ghraib as one huge example.
Course it depends on who you believe, I guess. The soldiers in the pics and being courtmartialed (?) who say they were following orders OR the officers who say they knew of nothing.
Either way we have already seen illegal acts (as you would see in ANY WAR, not that it is right, just that illegal orders happen for numerous reasons). My point is to say that soldiers wouldn't follow illegal orders and that none would ever be given because they don't want to be war criminals is, IMHO, bs.