Why I Refused a 2nd Deployment to Iraq: By: Sgt. Kevin Benderman

[Mcluhan]

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/voices_004.htm

link should work now

 

[onthebottom]

Mcluhan,

Couldn't get the link to work so I did a search on his name and found a CNN article on this issue. I thought an interesting quote was:

"If a person said, `I'm not opposed to war, but I'm opposed to the Iraq war,' they would not qualify," said Louis Hiken, an attorney with the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild."

I think it's a bit difficult for someone who has volunteered for military service to claim to be a conscientious objector - although I'm not a lawyer.

OTB

 

[Kev]

www.oldamericancentury.org/voices_004.htm

 

[Mcluhan]

I liked the " there are no restart buttons on reality..." line

There are no restart buttons on reality and that is why I cannot figure out why now we are pursuing such a policy in this day and age. War should be relegated to the shelves of history, as was human sacrifice. If you stop to think about it you become aware that war is just human sacrifice. There is no honor in killing as many as you can as quickly as you can.

Then he goes on to talk about deer in the forest. I have never been to war, so I can only imagine what he going through. But I have been through the same epiphany with killing animals. I realized they where pretty much like me, only not as evolved. And I, the more evolved one, was killing for sport. I would like to give all the animals I have killed their lives back. But I can't push the restart button..