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June 6, 2006
Honolulu Army Officer Refuses To Report For Duty In Iraq
Topics: IraqLet's just call Lt. Ehren Watada a leftwing moonbat, a fool, and a coward.
There's a quote that a multi-tour veteran of Iraq that I know very well carries a copy of wherever he goes in the world (he keeps it in an 8x10 frame), and it's appropriate that we post it here for moonbats like Lt. Ehren Watada:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is much worse.The Iraq vet that sent me this quote wrote, "Count me and the rest of our troops in as being among the willing to do battle." Unlike our fellow countryman Lt. Ehren Watada, the same Iraq vet has already volunteered to go back again.When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, is often the means of their regeneration.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. - John Stuart Mill
He leaves next month for Iraq.
Hat tip - Harry Owens
Posted by Richard at June 6, 2006 7:13 PM
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