Reply #131: I think you mean illegal if it's YOUR child, but legal if it;s an Iraqi

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I cannot tell you what your personal moral code should be.

That is between you and your own conscience, and if you are religious, your God.

What I can tell you is that for the soldier whose commanding officer has given him an order that is, within the military force he serves, and the regime under whose banner it fights, the order is every bit as legal as an order given in Iraq right now to shoot an Iraqi child.

The American soldier who chooses, of his own free will, to obey or disobey the order does the exact same thing as the soldier who decides whether to obey the order to shoot your child.