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Originally Posted by powerclown
I'm not sure why you're pissed at the judge, willravel. Declaration of war, legal or illegal, falls under the jurisdiction of the US Congress, not the US Military. It would be a conflict of interest tantamount to mutiny for a military judge to in effect overrule Congress, thus the mistrial. Do you see it differently?
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The job of the judge was to determine whether Watada's thought process was reasonable, not whether the war was illegal or not in the real world. In order to do that, however, he would have been required to hear the testimony of some of the best and brightest of the anti-war movement. He wasn't prepared to let them take the stand in such a prominant case.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
It looks real bad that this guy: 1) has a Democratically connected dad who dodged Nam for the same reasons, 2) Joined the military after the war had already started.
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How so? As Host pointed out, he was going to be deployed to Afghanistan, not Iraq. As soon as his orders changed, he did research, like a responsible soldier, and discovered that the war was illegal. My father is a pastor, and I'm an atheist. Once the apple is seperate from the tree, the apple is it's own organism. Watada made his own stand.