WHEN DID OUR SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN BECOME DRONES?

I find it a bit disturbing how normal people in our country can speak up against this illegal and immoral war (meaning Iraq), but our own military men and women cannot?

Where does it say in the signing papers that recruits are forbidden to speak their minds once they enter service? When did they become drones the second they slip into uniform or go into combat?

Lieutenant Watada shouldn't be derided, and told to shut up and do his duty by those who want to see him silenced. He should be allowed to speak out, and prove that he isn't just another 'yes man' in the military--whom blindly follows orders and never questions anything.

If the military doesn't like their own speaking out against the way this war has been conducted (or any conflict for that matter), then they should've issued a blanket standing order to those who already have from the very beginning: By threatening any "dissenter" in the armed services with a court martial.

Because Watada wasn't the first military service man (or woman) to question this war.

And he won't be the last.

Schuyler Thorpe

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