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Old 08-16-2005, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by matt7531
Well if it isn't the old "Concentration Camp Guard" defense...
Hardly. Military orders run the gamut from the clearly appropriate to the unthinkable. Nazi soldiers who exterminated Jews were at one end of the spectrum. Even though W lied us into what appears to be an ill-advised war, the orders Casey Sheehan followed were well over to the other end of the spectrum. At some point between the extremes, there is a point where a soldier has to think long and hard about whether he has been given a lawful order. Soldiers like Casey Sheehan, IMHO, are nowhere near that line. I think it is unfair to them to suggest otherwise.