Man, this story has me cracking up but good. I'll probably be laughing all weekend.
For those on the sidelines, for a long time, a large part of the conservative sector has been loudly and vociferously protesting anyone who didn't want to deploy because they thought the war was wrong. From conscientious objectors to people who believed we should never have been there in the first place, there was pretty clear rhetoric: if you don't want to deploy, you're a traitor who's bringing the Army down. Any attempt to portray these evil, evil people as heroes was loudly decried as crazy talk.
Enter Major Stefan Cook. Major Cook says he refuses to deploy because his orders to war are illegal. He, however, doesn't challenge the legality of the entire war, just President Obama's piece. If he can't see President Obama's birth certificate, he won't deploy.
You would expect, if the right wing were internally consistent, to see condemnation on all sides. After all, this guy is depriving his fellow soldiers of a body/his experience!! He must just be a coward! Maybe a traitor! He is after all trying to get military folks all over to do the same!
To give the man his due, my frenemy(now legal in the OED, booyah) TSO, has attempted to be internally consistent and has condemned the man, and his crazy lawyer.
Let's have a look at what the right-wingers had to say, shall we? Normally I might not clip comments, but given that IVAW facebook conversations have become fair blogfodder, here goes:
Hmm. Deja vu, anyone?
And once again, this is different from the soldiers that refused to deploy took court martials so that they could put the war on trial....how?
Even funnier are the guys calling TSO a godless communist bastard for daring not to be uberimpressed by Major Cook's refusal to deploy. You know, the same ones that called Victor & co godless communist bastards for refusing to deploy...I wonder, is it just that they don't have any other insults?
Either way, I am sitting back with a can of pop and watching this hilarity unfold.
Now what I do think is kind of screwed up is that for this Major, rather than punish him, they simply canceled his deployment orders. So the way it seems to go is...if you're an enlisted soldier who refuses to deploy, you go to jail. If you're an officer, you must be taking a principled stand and so you shouldn't have to go.
Oy. However, this? STILL FUNNY.
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To be fair, only one of our regular readers came down on the wrong side of this issue. We're a military blog and most of our readers are former or current members of the military and understand the issue correctly. It's about a bozo who refused to deploy two months after he volunteered to deploy.
Jonn must have picked up a link from some crazy conspiracy site like infowars, because lots of commenters are bringing teh crazy. There will always be the conspiracy part of the right-wing, Army Sgt, but that doesn't mean it's a mainstream opinion.
I'd really like to meet this 2Generals3Wars guy, haha, what a nut.
Actually, those two commenters were the same person he/she used several IDs.
This IS pretty classic. Even better is that he volunteered just so he could un-volunteer. I think that sets him aside, even more, from the majority of CO's and anti-war vets.
You do have to hand it to John and TSO- they have shown their resolve to be more than just purely political. Hats off to them.
A hug from Jen? My weekend is made.
yes Jonn, secretly, deep down, we love each other in totally platonic ways. This is no opposite day trick....!!
One thing is that I am surprised at is how far this has gone?
I should make a post about this on my blog since I have made so many comments about deserters.
I don't remember anyone asking for Bush's or Clinton's birth certificates, Why do you think that is?
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