"We the People Refuse to Fight"

“This article was first written in June 2004. On the Third anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Antiwar movement is calling upon the Bush Administration to ‘Bring the Troops Home Now.’

‘Bring the Troops Home Now’ is a strong yet ambiguous statement because it accepts the legitimacy of the Commander in Chief who has the authority to make that decision.

The war is illegal and criminal. Irrespective of the Commander in Chief’s decision, US and coalition troops have a moral and legal obligation to ‘Abandon the Battlefield’ and we must make that choice possible for individual servicemen and women.

‘Abandon the Battlefield’ rejects the legitimacy of the Commander in Chief.

It denies the Bush administration the authority to conduct an illegal and criminal war on behalf of the citizenry.

What it says, is that ‘We the People Refuse to Fight’ in a war which violates international law and the US Constitution.”

~ Michel Chossudovsky, 18 March 2006

“Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

“The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.” (William Rockler, Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor)

This war is criminal. It violates the Nuremberg Charter, the US constitution and the UN charter. according to Lawrence Mosqueda, US Troops have a “Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders”.

(Mosqueda, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOS303A.html)

The military oath taken at the time of induction demands unbending support and allegiance to the US Constitution, while also demanding that US troops obey orders from their President and Commander in Chief:

“I, ____________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God”

The President and Commander in Chief has…

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