The contract is neither one way or two ways...it is a contract that he signed. The obligations are clear.
Indeed they are.
Null and void according to who? The soldier? Canadians? Sorry neither of you can determine what is null and void.
It's null and void according to common sense. The US like many other nations after WWII should be very aware of what is and is not considdered an illegal war or an act of aggression. The UN itself laid out definitions on this matter.
Illegal war? Like Kosovo illegal? The illegal war that Canada fought in? Was it UN approved? No. Did Yugoslavians pose a direct threat to Candian security? No. By your definition of illegal I would have to say your soldiers (and NATOs) fought an illegal war.
yeah yeah, I heard plenty already in regards to Kosovo. Shall we start nit picking and choosing which of our countries acted in the most illegals, or shall we stick to the topic at hand?
Regardless, just as we did in Afghanistan under NATO, so we did in Kosovo. Under NATO approval, we are members, we go. Nobody backed the Iraq invasion, there was no organization which approved the invasion of Iraq except Bush's imaginary coalition of the silly.... there's a difference believe it or not.
So all soldiers that don't do what this guy did are "dumb ass foot soldiers". That just shows the lack of respect you have for all soldiers and the ignorance for what they do.
Blah blah blah.... cry me a friggin river. You can do whatever you want to do, they can do whatever the hell they want to... I will do what I want to do. Such is life. Each person has their own principles that they will uphold or won't..... the fact that someone will face losing everything they have for those principles is where I keep my respect. If you want to stay in the military just to go and shoot/kill people in a far away land regardless of why you're there or if those people pose a danger to your country and those you care for, who am I to dispute? In fact why would I care? Therefore, why do you care if this guy refuses to do the same thing you enjoy doing?
He apparently joined by his choice. He signed the contract, apparently he was discharged and that was that after already serving one year over in Iraq. Then they tried to suck him back in regardless if he was officially discharged or not..... to me, it sounds like he has every right to take off and give the US Military the Finger from our side of the border.
"Following Orders" is what they do and is what they get paid for. It is what they signed up for and is in their oath and contract.
That fancy oath you speak of:
"I, (NAME), 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 regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Gives oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies forign and domestic first and foremost..... obeying the orders of the President of the United States is secondary to that, even you should understand this. Clearly a large plithora of infringements on the constitution have occured from Bush since he's been in power, and my own interpretation of that would mean that since he has continually attacked many aspects of the Constitution since he's been in power, he is a domestic enemy and therefore any orders coming from him are null and void.
