Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Sir, no sir

Today's hot topic is the story about the Fort Lewis soldier refusing his orders to deploy to Iraq. 1st Lt. Ehren Watada said:
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration,"
Illegal wars. Hmm. Didn't General Wesley Clark call our action in the Balkans illegal? Yes, I believe he did. Guess that assignment is off his list, too.

Watada said he was a war supporter when he signed up in 2003 (after we'd taken Baghdad) and was giving Bush the benefit of the doubt on the WMDs. But,
Over the past year, his feeling changed as he read up on the war and became convinced that there was "intentional manipulation of intelligence" by the Bush administration.
We can only imagine his reading list-- Counterpunch? Commondreams? Daily Kos? Huffpo? New York Times?

Look, the kid deserves praise for signing up during a war. And, there's nothing wrong with reading up on what you're about to get into. But all he has is an opinion, and like that well-known anatomical nether region, we all have one. Unless his security clearance reads top secret codeword he can't claim to know everything.

But the moon children don't care. They're already flocking to this guy like moths to the bug zapper, so we've hardly heard the last of it.


Michelle Malkin and Wizbang are the go-to places for info. But why am I telling you that? You already know it.

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