Deploying with his unit to a war he knows is wrong and that is harming our country in so many ways would be the easy thing to do. There’s a vast difference between being afraid to fight and knowing not only that a cause is unjust, but that both Americans and Iraqis are dying based on a long list of lies used to justify this war. Rather than simply going and accepting what is, statistically speaking, a rather small chance of being killed or wounded, Lt. Watada is choosing a far more difficult course, that may lead him to prison and vilification by a sickeningly misguided percentage of our population.
Read the whole article The Courage of Lieutenant Watada June 7, 2006 ~ by Bob Geiger, a writer, activist and Democratic District Leader in Westchester County, NY.
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Thank you Lt. Ehren Watada for standing up for international, US and military law by refusing to deploy to Iraq in support of the ongoing illegal war and occupation.
June 8th on Democracy Now:
Army Lieutenant Becomes First Commissioned Officer to Refuse Deployment to Iraq