Originally Posted by An Teallach
Neither hero nor coward. Plonker for sure. However,
I fail to see the connection between Iraq and the events of 11 September 2001 or indeed how Watada was expected to foresee that those events would result in the chimp Bush lashing out at the totally uninvolved Saddam whom the USA had largely armed and promoted.
The US has pretty much been in a state of war since the events of 9/11, first in Afghanistan and later in Iraq (plus a few other places). Whether you think there is a connection or not, anyone who joined the US Army after 9/11 (he may have even joined after OIF started, as promotion to captain in the US Army is at three years, and it doesn't say if he is a First or Second Lieutenant) and didn't expect to go to Iraq is a putz. Plus, if he was so against the war, why did he wait until his unit got notified of their deployment to object? In other words, he liked the paycheck until he was told he would have to actually earn it...
Cheers! M2