I had been formulating a post on this, but why bother when Karl at LSU has said it so well:

Lt Watada claims he has a constitutional right to be a deserter coward traitor oathbreaker protester.

Ok, that’s not what he said, but it comes close enough.

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News Flash.  Military people voluntarily sacrifice some of their rights when they take their oaths of service.  Among the things you are not allowed to do is incite to mutiny, which this moron does at every speech he encourages others to follow his example.  Yes its a restriction on free speech.  So what?

And Perri Nelson adds:

Watada’s lawyer claims that the war is illegal based upon international law because it’s a “war of aggression”. This echoes what the former secretary-general of the United Nations had to say about it. Authorities in the U.K., Australia, Poland, Bulgaria, and Japan disagreed. They said the war was backed by international law.

Looked at another way, the war in Iraq is nothing but an extension of the first gulf war. In that war, waged against Iraq because of their invasion of Kuwait, coalition forces led by the U.S. stomped Iraq’s military. When that conflict “ended” Iraq agreed to cease-fire terms negotiated in Safwan Iraq on March 1, 1991, and then violated just about every one of them. On that basis alone the war in Iraq was justified.

I am hopeful that the Military Justice system will grind away to the inevitable conviction of Lt. Watada, and speedily give him his demotion to the rank of Prisoner.

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