A message from Jacob Hornberger – 8/9/2024
Excepts
It is undisputed that the president, the Pentagon, and the CIA never secured a declaration of war against Iraq from Congress. That means that the war that the U.S. government initiated against Iraq was illegal under our form of constitutional government.
It is undisputed that Iraq never attacked the United States and that it was the U.S. government that attacked Iraq. That makes the U.S. government, with respect to its war of aggression against Iraq, guilty of the war crime enunciated at Nuremberg.
It is the duty of every U.S. soldier to refuse to obey illegal orders. Even though Vance and Walz were both enlisted men rather than officers, the moral duty to disobey illegal orders applied to them just as it applied to officers.
Now, it’s very possible that youthful ignorance and false “patriotism” blinded Vance and Walz to the U.S. government’s illegal war on a country that had never attacked the United States. That happens with lots of young people….
… today, when both men have had some twenty years to recognize the truth about the U.S. war on Iraq… Youthful ignorance can no longer serve as a valid excuse for supporting an illegal and immoral war….
No soldier who participated in the U.S. war on Iraq was “serving” his country or fighting to protect the rights and freedoms of the American people. Instead, soldiers who participated in that war were simply following illegal orders — orders that violated the U.S. Constitution and the principles set forth at Nuremberg.
