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Originally Posted by matt7531
Well if it isn't the old "Concentration Camp Guard" defense...
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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.