Briton Who Refused 3rd Iraq Tour Sentenced

[WillyT]

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LONDON — A military court Thursday convicted a British air force doctor of disobeying orders and sentenced him to eight months in prison after he called the Iraq war illegal and refused to return for a third tour of duty.

Flight Lt. Malcolm Kendall-Smith, who said U.S. actions in Iraq were on par with those of Nazi Germany, was convicted by a panel of Royal Air Force officers, dismissed from the service and sentenced to prison after a three-day court-martial.

Kendall-Smith, 37, had served twice in southern Iraq but refused to return a third time in June because he said he was not prepared to take part in an "act of aggression."

He had pleaded innocent to five charges of failing to comply with a lawful order after refusing to deploy to the city of Basra last year.

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Link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3791734.html

I'm pretty sure he's seen enough...

:shrug:

[monktonman]

1. Now isnt prison....

a whole lot better then killing children?

[WillyT]

2. Well... First Off, He's A Doctor, And He Seems To Be Taking A...

principled stand. And, would be great as a witness if we can ever get the criminals in the White House and Downing Street to the Hague!

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He told the court he did not want to be complicit with an action contrary to international law.

"I have evidence that the Americans were on a par with Nazi Germany with its actions in the Persian Gulf," he said.

He did not specify which U.S. actions he believed were similar to those of the Nazis.

Kendall-Smith, who studied philosophy in New Zealand, refused to take part in training prior to his third deployment because he believed these were "preparatory acts which were equally criminal as the act itself."

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Link: same article.

:shrug:

[monktonman]

4. I'm busting up an argument

argument goes as follows..... I dont agree with the war but I signed up and now I have a duty to follow orders. Besides if I dont I'll be thrown in jail.
the reply is.... well dumbass, would a long time in jail be a whole lot better then KILLING CHILDREN?
thats all I'm sayin

[DELUSIONAL]

3. He is a real man -- an unsung hero -- or perhaps someone will

write a song in his honor.

[warrens]

5. Why does he hate freedom and Merka?

Two piddling tours? While Mr. Bush has fought for three solid years on the Crawford front, the Camp David front, and the Oval Office front. And Tony Blair has held down the Downing Street front almost single-handedly. And Dick Cheney has been bravely engaged in firefights with terrorist quail hunters.

This miserable coward hates Iraqi freedom.