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As horrible as it sounds;
I'd rather have people who aren't intelligent enough to read a contract dying in Iraq than our country's greatest minds. If Key can't understand the difference between a legal, written contract and a verbal one, he's more expendable, as far as I'm concerned.
I'd be very upset if this were an intelligent person who was honestly mislead, pursued it through the chain-of-command, but fulfilled his duty. By all indications, none of these things happened for Key.
Just becuase you disagree with something in a contract after-the-fact doesn't invalidate the contract.
And will; you're mistaking the theoretical legality of verbal contracts with the practical legality. A verbal contract IS a valid contract in most jurisdictions, and thus enforceable.
However, proving agreement on a certain set of things is nigh impossible in a he-said she-said situation. Unfortunately for Keys, your crediblity in court while claiming a verbal contract existed is severely diminished when you're a deserter and criminal.
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