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Something happened to my post and I am reposting.

We now have U.S. military members refusing to go to Iraq and stating so in direct testimony before the Congress of the United States.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/85612/ 


There is an interesting legal aspect to this.


As a member of the


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For the record, it's criminal for the sergeant not to go. He didn't sign up to make policy, he signed up to execute it.

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The military doesn't execute policy. That's one of the reasons why this war is and has been such a disaster - the military is being tasked with executing policy.

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