QUOTE(makaveli91 @ May 7 2006, 08:54 PM)
Actually, I'm pretty sure that your military follows the orders of your Secretary of Defense, who i assume follows orders from your president. Its the same here in Canada.
Key word in that phrase "in Canada"
The US military is bound by an oath to the constitution, not the president or any other elected official because they change every 4-8 years. Constitution doesn't, you being Canadian you probably arent familiar with "all enemies foreign or domestic", or a right to bear arms for the day when you may need to shoot the government
QUOTE(makaveli91 @ May 7 2006, 08:54 PM)
And yes, you are right. A soldier can't be forced against their will to execute an illegal or immoral order. Then you are looking at point of views. In the military you don't get to voice your point of view. You get told, "Ok, General Hillier has decided that we as a military are going to now do this".
There has been several instances of reserervist questioning suicide orders and not being punsished upon review by 2nd level superiors, and then there is Abu Ghraib, they were oredered to do those things and had to fall on their swords to protect officers. As well as civilian executions caught on tape and prosecuted
QUOTE(makaveli91 @ May 7 2006, 08:54 PM)
And for invading Iraq. No one REALLY knows (other than Bush) as to why you invaded. So what is so illegal or immoral about it?
OIL!!!!!!
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So what is so illegal or immoral about it? Civilians die in war. Its a fact. Nothing immoral about it.
Counterproductive and at times criminal.
QUOTE(makaveli91 @ May 7 2006, 08:54 PM)
I will follow them into battle any day without question. So if i have to die for something else to thrive, at least i'm dying for something. Not a meaningless life accomplishing little or nothing at all.
I think you have this kinda backwards.
You watch too many movies....
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And as for the Canadian Army being battle hardened? We've actually only been at war with one country. Korea. And we didn't get our asses handed to us on a platter like you's did in Vietnam. I'd say we were more on the ass kicking side. We don't glorify our battles. We don't glorify killing. We have no need to. We don't care. We'd rather settle things in a more civil way if possible.
Whatever you say m8. I imagine having a military footprint as such as yours does lend itself to talking more (rather than fighting), and proximity to only superpower doesnt hurt either.
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I bet you couldn't guess half of the countries canada has been occupying in the past 20 years. I sure as hell had NO idea until i was acutally in the forces.
Actually, you mean Canadian forces under UN command. On UN peacekeeping missions, quite a far stretch from Canadian occupying forces on canadian missions.