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Originally Posted by Botnst
Show me where the orders were unlawful.
Did Congress empower the president? Yes?
If Congress gives Georgie-boy the power to wage war, it is a legal war.
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This is a tough one. There are times when a country needs an army. And if every grunt exercised the option of pondering each and every order that drifted down to him, that army would likely be defeated. OTOH, I have real trouble turning my body and mind over to be used as an extension of the mind of someone like say, LBJ, Nixon, or Dubya-dubs.
I have a feeling I'm going to be held to account for the deeds committed by my hand, and saying that I was ordered to so with a legal order by my commander in chief will not cover it, I'm afraid. Particulary when one has a nagging feeling that the commander in chief is a semi-whack job, as I felt during Nam under LBJ and Nixon.
Geroge W. Bush inspires a lot of reactions in me and none of them are confidence. The man and his crowd are way outta touch.