- I don't know Lt. Ehren Wataba, but I
know his mother, and spoke at length with her back in May in Hawaii about
how Ehren morally did not want to go to Iraq and how he was being harassed
by other members of his unit for his beliefs that the war in Iraq was wrong
and that he didn't want to kill innocent people for BushCo.
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- Ehren tried everything
he could within regulations and legal means to be excused from going over
to the war crime in Iraq and becoming a war criminal himself; nothing worked,
so he refused to be deployed with his unit.
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- Today he was
charged with missing movement, contempt towards officials and conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman!
Are they kidding me? Are they kidding the world and hiding behind an ancient
code while they are pretending that anything about Iraq or our government
is "gentlemanly?"
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- How about looking
at the Commander in Chief of our armed forces, George Bush, for one? George
Bush is a dry drunk who runs our country like he ran all of his failed
businesses - with an attitude that if he screws up, his daddy, or his daddy's
friends, will bail him out. He has already said that the problem of Iraq
will be solved by "future presidents" which absolves and excuses
him from cleaning up the murderous mess that he has made.
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- George Bush and
his daddy used their contacts to get him a spot in the Texas Air National
Guard during Vietnam. When he was transferred to the Alabama Air National
Guard he never showed up to complete his military commitment to the United
States. Now I have no problem with Georgie, or "I had other priorities"
five-deferment Dicky, getting out of going to the war crime in Vietnam,
but to grow up and strong arm your way into the CIA to fix intelligence
and to deceive a country and play on its fears to lead us into another
war crime is inexcusable and cowardly.
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- To also underscore
what a "gentleman" our president is, when he was asked about
meeting with me when we were camped outside of his ranch, within spittin'
distance, he said that he "had to get on with his life." How
nice that George is able to get on with his life! Wish I had that option.
It's so nice that George can "get on with his life" when he has
sent so many off to lose theirs and steal the lives of others. George can
be very flippant about it because he has no flesh and blood in harm's way
and he never attends any funerals or allows any pictures of flag-draped
coffins to offend his sensibilities so he can get on with his life bike
riding or destroying the world.
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- Donald "you
go to war with the army you have, not the army you want" and he of
the famous machine-signed condolence letters Rumsfeld is Lt. Wataba's civilian
leader in the Pentagon. Donny has constantly and consistently ignored advice
for more troops from generals in the field and we can be sure that when
he makes his unannounced visits to Iraq he travels in heavily armored vehicles
and is far better protected than our troops, even when he moves about DC.
I have an idea! How about not sending our young people off to fight, die
and kill innocents in an illegal and immoral war whether they are prepared
or not!
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- We have already
mentioned "5 Deferment Dick" and his Doctrine of the Insurgency
Last Throes - what more can be said of the ungentlemanly conduct of our
nation's shadow president? How about when he told Sen. Patrick Leahy of
Vermont to go and "f**k" himself on the Senate floor? How about
mistaking your best friend for a dove and shooting him in the face while
allegedly intoxicated and waiting until 24 hours to report it so there
would be no evidence of the intoxication? How about the coincidence of
the company that he used to run being awarded billions of no-bid contracts
in the Iraq war crime? Just his ever present sneer with the raising of
one eyebrow as if he is incessantly smelling something awful is distinctly
ungentlemanly!
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- There are so
many examples of Ungentlemanly Conduct in BushCo that the examples could
fill pages and pages. How about allowing the people of New Orleans to hang
off their houses while George plays guitar and eats birthday cake with
John McCain? How about when Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked about the
unnecessary and tragic number of 2500 when that casualty number was reached
and he said, "It is only a number." How about all of the administration
lying about mushroom clouds and terrorism in Iraq with colored pie charts
and pointing sticks? The list goes on. The list goes on.
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- Everyone, male
or female, in the Bush Regime should be charged with Ungentlemanly Conduct
which is Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Lt.
Wataba should be set free and allowed to carry on with his life because
it is also in the UCMJ that a soldier has a duty to disobey an unlawful
order, and from our own Constitution to international law, everything about
Iraq is unlawful (UCMJ ART. 90-920).
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- Lt. Wataba also
took an oath to defend our country from all enemies "foreign and domestic"
and one doesn't have to cross any international borders to find the enemies
of freedom and of life that we all have to be defended from.
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- Thank you, from
the bottom of my heart, Lt. Ehren Wataba, for doing your duty.
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