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Now you see why the left wants terrorists arrested and tried, instead of killed on the battlefield.

Coward.

Hang the motherf*cker

My first reation to this was much the same as Jaeson's--coward. However, having served in the military, I then realized that this (his not shipping out) was the best thing that could've happened. This man was supposed to be an officer, officers have many responsibilites including (in most cases) the burden of command. I can assure you, from personal experience, that this is a duty that real military officers do not take lightly. Had he been deployed, there is no telling what harm or danger he could've allowed to come to the men under his command.

notice his shirt with the 70s chicken footprint in it HEY JERK WHAT WRONG WITH A WHITE DOVE?

Which country have any cowardly officer out on the parade ground before all his men, peer officers, superiors, family and even their kids and tear off his rank insignia and his unit patch and any medals he may have earned?
Then break his sword in half and throw it at his feet?

The only thing not done is that the men line up to spit in his face!

Sorry, it's hard for me to let this one go. I googled his name and came across a plethora of sites like this:
www.thankyoult.org/
This site praises his "bravery" and commends him for doing his "duty" in refusing to fight an "illegal" war. They also call for the Army to give him an honorable discharge. How anyone could find honor in a 1stLt refusing to follow orders and abandoning his unit to whatever fate would come to them is beyond me. Not exactly officer grade qualities if you ask me. Of course, I'm a Navy guy, so what do I know.

"notice his shirt with the 70s chicken footprint in it HEY JERK WHAT WRONG WITH A WHITE DOVE?"
--Spurwing
Dude, you're awesome Spurwing. lol. Chicken footprint! lol. I will never look at a peace symbol the same way again!

Wasn't this guy commissioned as an Officer. That means he at least had to have a College education. I'm not understanding this "didn't understand the stipulations". What a load of crock.

I think they still can charge him with: refusing a lawfull order, desertion in time of war, and deriliction of duty.
Bust him to private, make him serve a year in the stockade, released only for 'light duty' (Cleaning toilets and picking up paper/cigarette butts), then give him a "bad conduct discharge".

Thank God he is not of my race or ethnicity. I couldn't bear the shame.

Watada had stipulated that he did not deploy with his unit as ordered and that he gave interviews without authorization. In the military judge's view, Watada hadn't realized the legal consequences of the stipulations, since they largely amounted to admitting the charges.

"Lt. Watada, you're charged with refusing to deploy with your unit."

"Yep, did that."

"Lt. Watada, you're also charged with granting interviews without authorization."

"Yep, did that too."

"Hey, wait, I didn't realize I was admitting that I was guilty of the charges!"

Good thing this genius didn't deploy. His troops would constantly have had to remind him to point the open end of his weapon at the enemy.

-Conduct unbecoming an officer.

This clown joined the military after 9/11, I'm sure with honorable intentions, but somewhere along the line he lost his cajones, plain and simple. So now he's cried enough and is being given a pass. What a crock. If I ever see this scum walking down the street, I'd make a point to go over and spit in his face, but what do I know, I only served 3 years in the U.S. Navy

Personally speaking, I don't think troops should have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. What should have been deployed were nuclear warheads or neutron bombs to Baghdad, Tikrit, Basra, etc.

No US troops should have ever had to spill a drop of blood over Iraq or Afghanistan.

If we're already the 'Great Satan" to these Islamofascists, then we should start acting like it.

Hopefully, that is the tack we and/or Israel will take with regards to Iran.

After that?

Mecca.

Just my personal opinion.

Perhaps if he had deployed he would have fragged by his own men.

"MH at October 22, 2008 6:02 PM"

The way we've been trying not to hurt their feelings durring this war, I'm afraid that it'll HAVE TO end with one side or the other dropping "THE BOMB".

[No US troops should have ever had to spill a drop of blood over Iraq or Afghanistan.]

That was meant to say: No US troops should have ever had to spill a drop of _their_ blood over Iraq or Afghanistan.

Never type with a buzz. Maybe Google is onto something, there. LOL!

[The way we've been trying not to hurt their feelings durring this war, I'm afraid that it'll HAVE TO end with one side or the other dropping "THE BOMB".]

I know. Why fight a war wholesale? If it is worth sending our fighting men and women into battle to risk their lives then it is worth sending our nuclear arsenal to do the job, IMHO.

The only thing our troops should have to do is go in and paint the lines on the black glass parking lot we turned their backwards, 3rd World toilets into.

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility" -British Sea Lord John Fisher

"Coward."

As well as traitor.

"Had he been deployed, there is no telling what harm or danger he could've allowed to come to the men under his command."

Good point. Still, the gutless weasel volunteered for military service. If he wasn't prepared to give it his all, he shouldn't have wasted the time of everyone that had to train or deal with him.

This guy should be glad he didn't have the great George S. Patton as his commanding officer. Patton probably would've shot him. Or used him as bait for the enemy.

If we're already the 'Great Satan" to these Islamofascists, then we should start acting like it.

Love it.

Get OCCULT AND MASSONIC SYMBOLS ILLISTRATED and see what the real meaning of the 70s chicken footprint means its sure not about peace

I'm sure with honorable intentions...

I'm not so sure. His father is a far-left wing loon in Hawaii and they may cooked this up together for exactly this reason, faux conscientious objector crap. The federal judge is, IMHO, a complete ass as well. A mistrial doesn't result in a verdict, jerkweed. The only upside is that Watada will know in what passes for this gutless, spineless maggot's heart that that is what he is. Sort of like John Kerry, actually.