Dishonorable Motives, Idiotic Rationale
I'm linking to this not because I find the self-congratulatory excuses of a dishonorable and dishonored person compelling, but for another reason entirely. I have posted a number of times of the antics of the soon to be former lieutenant Ehren Watada who is being court martialed for his refusal to deploy to Iraq. He abandoned his oath and his soldiers in doing so. A truly dishonorable man. But Kevin Sites from Yahoo News has interviewed him - and there is an interesting pattern in the interview.
KEVIN SITES: Now, you joined the Army right after the US was invading Iraq and now you're refusing to go. Some critics might look at this as somewhat disingenuous. You've taken an oath, received training but now you won't fight. Can you explain your rationale behind this?
EHREN WATADA: Sure. I think that in March of 2003 when I joined up, I, like many Americans, believed the administration when they said the threat from Iraq was imminent — that there were weapons of mass destruction all throughout Iraq; that there were stockpiles of it; and because of Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist acts, the threat was imminent and we needed to invade that country immediately in order to neutralize that threat.
Since then I think I, as many, many Americans are realizing, that those justifications were intentionally falsified in order to fit a policy established long before 9/11 of just toppling the Saddam Hussein regime and setting up an American presence in Iraq.
SITES: Tell me how those views evolved. How did you come to that conclusion?
WATADA: I think the facts are out there, they're not difficult to find, they just take a little bit of willingness and interest on behalf of anyone who is willing to seek out the truth and find the facts. All of it is in the mainstream media. But it is quickly buried and it is quickly hidden by other events that come and go. And all it takes is a little bit of logical reasoning. The Iraq Survey Group came out and said there were no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 and during 2003. The 9/11 Commission came out and said there were no ties with Iraq to 9/11 or al-Qaeda. The president himself came out and said that nobody in his administration ever suggested that there was a link.
You can read the entire mewling interview if you'd like, but the important thing here is the fact that Watada is sure to get the word out that his brilliant insight comes from the mainstream media. All his rationale, all his convictions. That would be this mainstream media that is called for not telling the truth by their own public editors. That would be this media that stands behind a ghost source who appears not to exist in any way, shape or form. The MSM that admits that altered photos get into print. The MSM that got caught flat out publishing said falsified pictures by bloggers.
Whether he intended it this way or not, Watada did prove the apocryphal statement attributed to PT Barnum. There is a sucker born every minute. Watada's minute has arrived. And his justification is as empty and hollow as can be expected from a man who's oath is broken at a whim.
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Lieutenant Ehren Watada is a Big Chicken » Right Pundits — Thursday, 4 January , 2007 @ 12:23 am
By Quilly Mammoth, Wednesday, 3 January , 2007 @ 2:41 pm
That miserable SOB repeats every Shehanesque media distortion of the President’s position. I’m glad he’s getting chucked out. We don’t need don’t need morons like that leading the troops; they deserve better.