Soldiers: Turn your backs on this President, don't kill or die for him. [View All]

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Do it for America, but don't do it for him. He doesn't give a damn about you or your families or your futures. He's incapable of it, turn your backs on him, lay down your arms in his service. Serve your country and stop fighting for these mad men.

Your nation wants you safe and at home where you belong. Bush lied to you, from the get go, stop serving him and his oil men. Do the right thing. Do the patriotic thing, take away Bush's power and turn your backs on him.

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Published on Friday, June 16, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Soldier's Duty: Say No to Illegal War
by Michael Honey

Lost in the media frenzy over the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, First Lt. Ehren Watada, of Fort Lewis, opened another front in the conflict over President Bush's war of choice in Iraq. At a news conference in Tacoma a few hours before al-Zarqawi's death, Watada announced his refusal of orders to deploy to Iraq on grounds that the war is illegal as well as immoral.

"An order to take part in an illegal war is illegal in itself," he said. "I felt it was my obligation as a leader to speak out against the willful misconduct at the highest level of the chain of command."

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"I refuse to be silent any longer," he told reporters in Tacoma. "I refuse to watch families torn apart, while the president tells us to 'stay the course.' I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. I wanted to be there for my fellow troops. But the best way was not to help drop artillery and cause more death and destruction. It is to help oppose this war and end it so that all soldiers can come home."

Not surprising, some condemn Watada as a coward or derelict in his duty as a soldier or even as guilty of sedition and treason and deserving of execution. Despite threats of court martial and prison, Bush's war of choice forced him, as he put it, to "choose the hard right over the easy wrong (and) to have the strength and the courage to do what is right for America."