Conscientious Objector | Army officer from Honolulu refuses to report for Iraq duty

As reported in the Honolulu Star Bulletin on June 6th, a commisioned officer, 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, puts his neck on the line, inspite of the legal jeopardy of this position, questions the basis of the War in Iraq. In all probability when you consider the military's zealous need to reinforce it's linear power structure, will punish this officer, and burke a sentence as quietly as it can, becasue any publicity will only undermine the military's and executive branch's position. Whether you agree with him or not, in itself this is an act of courage--and very American--the willingness to stand up for what you believe in.

Speaking of questions, I have some questions:

1. Why, when we are one of the most technically advanced and richest countries in world, are we not able to find any bombs of mass distruction? Hasn't it been awhile now? Does Iraq have that many hiding places?

2. Why are we having a war on a metaphor?

3. How is it that automible manufacturers seemed caught off guard about the dramatic rise in oil prices, when the oil companies were predicting it over a year ago? Don't auto execs go out to lunch with oil execs anymore?

4. How is it that Brazil got the worlds biggest car manufacturer's to make multi-fuel cars and the same sort of thing is declared years away in the U.S.? How far away is Brazil anyway -- that it would take GM several years even to import a car from it's own manufacturing plant in Brazil?

5. Do mexican's need to shop more in this country to prevent a wall going up? Can't they take a lesson from our seniors' playbook and their Canadian drug runs?

Those are just few...

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