However, NuLabour lawyers are quick to analyse and pick over Servicemen's actions committed in the heat of their illegal war from the quiet comfort of a Fiscal's office, and to bring charges against the men who serve Queen and Country.
The 'Nuremberg Defence' is denied to those Servicemen and, I have to say, this chap's action looks to me like a principled stand. By bringing lawyers onto the battlefield, the Government have only themselves to blame. It was only a matter of time before individual Servicemen started to think:
"If the Govt lawyers will happily crap all over me if I shoot back while I'm under a hail of petrol bombs / being fired upon, then why should I put myself at risk from lawyers by going to a war that many lawyers say is illegal? Under the current regime, I have an absolute duty not to obey an unlawful order."
Last edited by An Teallach; 16th Oct 2005 at 09:46.