Pablo Paredes is a sailor in the U.S. Navy. He refused to board a ship to the Persian Gulf, and was sentenced to three months of hard labor and demoted to "seaman recruit, the lowest rank in the Navy." Apparently he was protesting the war in Iraq and called it "illegal and immoral."
Now, unless Congress passed a major act while I was sleeping and all the media ignored it, we still don't have a draft. That measn this Paredes signed up on his own. My question is: If he was against the war in Iraq, why was he in the navy in the first place? Isn't that the whole point of being in the armed forces---to go serve your country?
I'm not saying it's wrong to believe a war is wrong. If we declared war on Mongolia because we wanted them to pay us for no reason, I would say that was wrong. But if I was in the army voluntarily, I would just leave voluntarily.
The war in Iraq has been going on for over two years. If Paredes believed it was wrong, why was he still in the navy? Then he gets demoted and looks bad because he believes it's "illegal and immoral" to get rid of a dictator who won't let us come in to see if he's hiding nuclear weapons.
I just don't understand...
Edmond the Hun
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weirdness. i think the Local Superhero is right though. Otherwise people would be dropping in and out all the time.
I also agree that you should update your counter thingies. Isn't there a way to do a running clock like on a website? I do know that much is possible ;) -Sanguine, who is SO not techno-savvy
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