I gotta tell ya, this statement from a United States soldier about being against the Iraq war is the rationalization of a coward:
"Just because we volunteered for the military doesn’t mean we volunteered to put our lives in unnecessary harm and to carry out missions that are illogical and immoral."
Where did I get this statement? From the upcoming 60 minutes in which they talk to active duty members of our military and their petition against the Iraq war:
They say they are not disloyal. They say they are not shirking their duty and that they do not oppose war. But over 1,000 active-duty and reserve members of the U.S. military are against the war in Iraq and have said so in an unusually public way — by petitioning Congress last month. Several of them appear to explain their actions in a Lara Logan report to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday Feb. 25 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
"I’m not anti-war. I’m not a pacifist. I’m not opposed to protecting our country and defending our principles," says Navy Petty Officer Jonathan Hutto, an Iraq war veteran who, along with another veteran, initiated the petition. A 1995 law called the Military Whistleblower act enables military personnel to express their own opinions about Iraq in protected communication directly to Congress. Hutto and others spoke with 60 MINUTES while off duty, off base and out of uniform as conscientious citizens. "But at the same time, as citizens, it’s our obligation to have a questioning attitude… about policy," Hutto tells Logan.
You can view their website here, where you will see that they are sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Veterans For Peace and other Sheehan socialist groups.
These people believed that THEY get to choose where and when they fight. I mean just because you sign up to serve your country doesn’t mean you have to go to just ANY war right? He/she has to agree with it…..geez.
Lets take a look at one of the soldiers described in the above article. Marine Sgt. Liam Madden say’s "If he’d known the United States was going to invade Iraq, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Liam Madden says he probably wouldn’t have enlisted a month before. Still, he has no regrets."
Get that? He enlisted in Feb of 2003, we invaded in March of 2003. What kind of retard couldn’t have seen the handwriting on the wall one month earlier?
I call bullsh&*.
How about Navy Petty Officer Jonathan Hutto who was quoted in the article. Antimedia found out that he served one six month tour on a ship taking pictures:
The sum total of Hutto’s experiences of Iraq is one six month tour in the Persian Gulf taking photographs aboard the Theodore Roosevelt.
So we have a Sgt who believes he should be the one deciding which war to go to and a photographer serving on a ship. Wow….
What gets my blood boiling even hotter is the fact that these 1000 soldiers represent .04% of our military (2,375,000/1000). But .04% is what makes news in our country now….
Still not seeing any bias?
At least this soldier has it right:
Other Iraqi war veterans still on duty there believe Appeal for Redress misses a larger point. "As an American soldier, I feel like we took an oath to obey the orders of our commander-in-chief and officers appointed over us," says Army Spec. James Smauldon. Said another serviceman in Iraq, Army Capt. Lawrence Nunn, "I know what I’m here fighting for, to give the Iraqi people some democracy and hope, so I am 100 percent behind this mission. You don’t sign up to pick which war you go to."
Ooh rah!
Personally I feel each and every one of these cowardly POS’s should be drawn and quartered. They swore and oath to protect and defend this country, they don’t get to choose where and when they go and they knew that full well when they signed up.
UPDATE
Antimedia found much more about this photographer:
Furthermore, Hutto himself has a history of liberal activism. In 1996, Hutto enrolled in Howard University, choosing political science as his major. He quickly became close friends with a controversial classmate, Sinclair Skinner, who admits to being expelled from Tuskegee University for his activism. Together, they helped organize the Million Man March.
In the summer of 1995, Skinner helped organize students nationally for the Million Man March. He, Eames, and Hutto came under the wing of civil-rights legend Lawrence Guyot, who helped all three get elected as advisory neighborhood commissioners. Skinner, who served six years on the U Street/Lower Georgia Avenue ANC, developed a following at Howard. He regularly brought a herd of Howard students with him to important community meetings.
Along with his civil rights activism, Lawrence Guyot has compared the GOP to "Nazis" on national talk programs. Guyot himself has been an anti-war activist since the 1960s.
When Hutto graduated from Howard, he worked for the ACLU and then for Amnesty International. Hutto has expressed disdain for President Bush, stating "[Bush’s] agenda is not only anti African/African American, but anti-labor, anti-woman, anti-environment and anti-human rights", has called the Iraq war "illegal" and the United States "imperialist".
Like I said, bullsh&*.
A Marine Sgt signs up a month before the war and then is surprised when he actually has to serve there. Then a longtime antiwar lefty activist signs up for the military in 2004, takes some photo’s, and joins a anti-war group…..
Come on!
And this is what 60 minutes deems newsworthy.
UPDATE II
Even more on Hutto:
Hutto described the military as “an institutional culture laced with discriminatory behavior based on race, gender, sexual orientation and geography.” He lauds “the movement of soldiers and sailors against the occupation of Vietnam was pivotal in ending U.S. Imperialist aggression against the Vietnamese people.”
What a digusting POS.
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