Author Topic: News on 1st Lt. Watada (Read 517 times)

Yeager · « **on:** January 17, 2007, 01:28:48 PM »

This is the army officer who refused to deploy to Iraq with his stryker brigade because he believed he was being sent to fight an "illegal" war.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003528296_watada17m.html

How much you want to bet he ends up in Canada. No doubt they would be glad to have him.

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2007, 02:06:28 PM »

We're just chock full of vitriol today.

midnight Target · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2007, 02:07:37 PM »

there was this sign saying "Vitriol" on a sliding door.......

Yeager · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2007, 02:08:53 PM »

hey! I resemble that remark

DREDger · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2007, 02:54:53 PM »

Not his call to make. Our military was sent there lawfully by order of the president and congress. Bet he cashes his salary checks though. Far as I am concerned he can follow orders or go to levenworth.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2007, 03:35:48 PM »

We pretty much knew this was going to happen a while ago. Soldiers can't question the war, but only singular orders.

Sikboy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:11:48 PM »

I was going to Suggest that he refuse to deploy because the Stryker is so dang ugly, that's when it hit me!

The US Defense Industry is being run by Matel!
Stryker:

GI Joe APC that I got for Christmas in 1983:

I wouldn't deploy in that plastic POS either! Everytime you went down a slide, the top would pop off, and snake-eyes would go flying.

-Sik

Reschke · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:48:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Sikboy

GI Joe APC that I got for Christmas in 1983:

I wouldn't deploy in that plastic POS either! Everytime you went down a slide, the top would pop off, and snake-eyes would go flying.

-Sik

I tried using a jigsaw to make that side door open only to have a toy that would take on water every time I put it in the creek for an amphibious assault on Cobras HQ across the way.

Da*n those Cobra saboteurs taking out 10 GI JOEs like that!

Sikboy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:08:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Reschke

Da*n those Cobra saboteurs taking out 10 GI JOEs like that!

Oh the Humanity!

-Sik

Maverick · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2007, 11:28:08 AM »

There's plenty of room and rocks waiting for him at Leavenworth.

Yeager · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2007, 01:36:42 PM »

After investing a rather larger than average waste of time studying this fellow, I really feel more and more that the root cause of his refusal to deploy was simple cowardice. He might not recognize it as such, because I imagine cowardice, simple primal cowardice, is an odd beast to confront and watada could very well be in denial, that wont last long once the door locks behind him.

Its not like he was drafted. He is an officer in the United States Army who refused to deploy to a combat zone.

Thrawn · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2007, 02:21:40 PM »

That's freaking crazy. Based on GI Joe's technology (laser weapons etc), they must have had a massively huge budget...but they can only afford a canvas top for their APC? I don't think so, Duke obviously had a crack problem.

Maverick · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2007, 02:39:41 PM »

Thrawn, that's special balistic canvas. It's teh l33t.

Thrawn · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2007, 03:42:55 PM »

lols

"Freaking rough as cardboard government issue toilet paper."

"Hey, that's not just toilet paper that's ballistic toilet paper."

P0G0 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2007, 04:55:46 PM »

guilty .... next case....