Reply #17: So, you're engaging in daily civil disobedience against the war then?

[IrateCitizen]

Even at risk to your body, family and livelihood?

Because if you are not, then you seriously need to SHUT THE FUCK UP about this, because you're not doing a fraction of what you are demanding others to do.

I used to be an officer in the Army Reserves. I filed for CO prior to the invasion of Iraq. When my battalion commander asked me what I would do if ordered to deploy, I said I would most likely refuse and face court martial.

Thankfully, I was honorably discharged this September, and never had to face that decision.

Having been through what I went through, though, I would NEVER demand that another person make the same decision. The only thing I would EVER ask of them is just to probe their conscience, and do what they feel is right. Why? Because I know how difficult of a decision this is, I know how much is on the line, and I know that it's the last place for me to profess to make that decision for them.

Yet you, from high inside your ivory tower, have deigned to do just that. The chain of command goes as follows:
people ---> government ---> military.
Yet you have failed on your end, so you're asking those on the bottom to not only deal with the fact that they're in war under false pretenses, but to also make up for your unwillingness to risk your own livelihood to stop this war. You're asking them to live with the consequences of a dishonorable discharge and everything that goes along with it, just so you can sleep better at night, comforted by your own moral superiority.

Unless you're willing to support all these soldiers, and their families, for the rest of their lives after they throw down their weapons, you seriously need to just go piss up a rope.