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The War on Terror has claimed millions of victims in this country as well
as in the government’s actions abroad. However there is one very
high-profile casualty that has still not been reported. The victim was
seriously wounded when the War on Afghanistan began, but on May 1, 2003
the critical victim died. That victim was and is the US military’s Chain
of Command.
The pledge taken by both officers and enlisted personnel reads:
“I,____________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United
States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the
regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me
God.”
“Under the UN Charter, there are only two circumstances in which the
use of force is permissible: in collective or individual self-defense
against an actual or imminent armed attack: and when the Security Council
has directed or authorized use of force to maintain or restore
international peace and security. Neither of those circumstances now
exists. Absent one of them, U.S. use of force against Iraq is
unlawful.”
The authors were specifically referring to Article 51 of the UN Charter on
the right to self-defense. Nothing that Iraq has done would call that
provision into effect. The report also states that:
"There is no basis in international law for dramatically expanding
the concept of self-defense, as advocated in the Bush Administration's
September, 2002 "National Security Strategy" to authorize
"preemptive"--really preventive--strikes against states based on
potential threats arising from possession or development of chemical,
biological, or nuclear weapons and links to terrorism. Such an expansion
would destabilize the present system of UN Charter restraints on the use
of force. Further, there is no claim or publicly disclosed evidence that
Iraq is supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorist.” (1)
The above constitutes the issuance of an illegal order. While US enlisted
personnel have no way of knowing the specifics behind the legalities of
the orders they were given for the attacks upon both Afghanistan and Iraq
– the Officer Corp and in particular the General Staff were not only
qualified to make such determinations: they were obligated under the UCMJ
to do just that – and they failed then, just as they have continued to
fail to this point.
This constitutes the most serious breach of military obligations that were
sworn to under oath: Yet each man or woman who failed to disobey this
president, also failed us and the world because this meant that they were
willing to support criminal illegalities that led directly to the deaths
of millions of people and among them, according to the Veteran’s
Administration, some 73,816 have died since we began fighting the war in
Iraq way back in 1991. That’s one hell of a war crime and it does not
count the millions that were also killed by US troops in that wart! (2)
There is a dispute about the numbers cited, but it is not the numbers that
make this a crime: It is the fact that so many with the responsibility to
know and the authority to stop it, totally failed in their duty to their
sworn oaths, which incidentally is the only reason for the existence of
their profession.
Most of this conflicted view, of what constitutes a legal order when given
by the President of the United States, comes from that last line in the
oath. Too many people seem to think that if an order is given by the
president, then it must be lawful, and therefore must be obeyed: which is
not true. The reason that the command to Disobey an Unlawful Order is in
the UCMJ, is to prevent an errant Commander-in-Chief, from becoming a
unilateral military dictator.
Everyone in the US military above the rank of Colonel ought to have enough
of an education and a military awareness to be able to question and decide
the legality of those commands that so clearly violated all the settled
laws involved in the Rules of War. Maybe this is why the Decider has
chosen to use almost as many private contractors in his wars as US
military personnel! There is no statutory limitation on murder, which is
what those orders that Bush gave – directly led to: Hence the title of
this article.
Simultaneously, with the unreported death of the US Military
Chain-of-Command, another very interesting corpse is being dug-up and has
almost come back to life, as a real and present-danger to the would-be
Owners of the world. That previously pronounced “corpse” is none other
than the conflicted events surrounding 911 and the fraudulent
“investigations” that followed in its wake.
“Is our nation prepared to face those rude shocks?
The unraveling began within weeks of the release of the 9/11 Commission
Report (in July 2004) with the shocking revelation that members of the
9/11 commission were convinced that government officials, including NORAD
generals, had deceived them during the investigation in essence, had
lied to their faces during the hearings.[1] According to the Washington
Post the members of the commission vented their frustrations at a special
meeting in the summer of 2004. The panel even considered referring the
matter to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.
The unraveling continued in 2006 with the release of a follow-up volume,
Without Precedent, authored by the two men who had co-chaired the
commission, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton. The men had come under
increasing fire ever since the release of their final report for presiding
over what many now believe was a failed investigation. Stung by so much
criticism, Kean and Hamilton felt the need to explain (and defend)
themselves. The gist of their 2006 book is easily summarized. They write:
"We were set up to fail."
The bleeding continued in May 2007 with the stunning announcement that
former BYU physicist Steven Jones had found residues of thermite, a high
temperature explosive, in the dust of the collapsed World Trade Center.[2]
The discovery has the gravest implications for our nation, and probably
for this reason the announcement went reported in the US media. In a later
chapter I will discuss this important evidence in detail.
Yet another startling revelation occurred in December 2007 when we learned
that the CIA destroyed evidence, in the form of audio-tapes, deemed vital
to the official investigation.[3]” (3)
Where then has this led what’s left of the United States? The San
Francisco Chronicle managed to unearth a large part of the point in doing
much of the above:
“Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of
single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United
States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build
thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly
to transport detainees.”
And for what reason are concentration camps needed in each state of the
Union?
Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), “Use
of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies,” gives the executive
the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a
century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response
to “a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any
other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence
has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public
order.”
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before
the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of
anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of
“terrorist” organizations, or who speaks out against the
government’s policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and
noncitizens alike.” (4)
Still beyond all of this crime and murder, treason and tyranny there lies
a single glaring problem. The “goal” of the self-appointed Owners was
to bring down this nation, to dismantle every single pillar of the society
and to utterly destroy our system of government as well as our lives.
They’ve been at this ‘forever’ and yet one must ask – “What’s
the point in doing this!”
Once Pandora’s Box gets opened, which is the “Next Big Thing.” no
one will be able to put that vile genie back in the bottle again. The
attack upon Iran that has been coordinated and planned for some time by
Cheney and Netanyahu, and will most certainly spill over into several
other nations almost immediately. From the moment that the missiles begin
to cross the oceans, life almost anywhere becomes unthinkable.
“Where’s the Profit for anyone, in a world gone mad and a planet
turned to ashes!”
If those camps begin to be filled with their designated 50 million
occupants, what happens then to this already crippled economy: we’ll be
nothing but a fourth-world country selling off the remainder of our assets
and our natural resources to whichever force has been holding our markers
for all these years of Debt & Denial. (5)
Maybe the Owners are planning to sell the prisoners in the camps: because
that’s about the only scenario that makes any sense. Who will be able to
come up with a way to feed fifty million inmates during the Depression
that’s certain to follow any nuclear exchange? We have known for at
least the last seven years that those who say they represent us are for
the most part completely insane. Yet we seem to have chosen not to
confront them on any of their crimes: We might want to start by demanding
the resignations of everyone that KNEW too much and did exactly NOTHING!
Jim Kirwan
CORRECTION
“You only published the Enlisted oath of enlistment. The officer’s oath of office is different.
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
Note that there is no requirement to obey any order of the President as there is in the enlisted oath. The damned Officers have an out for ending this mess and arresting that worthless lump in the White House.
Best,
Dennis Joyce
1SG, USA, Retired”
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