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| 2006-04-12 | ||
| A British Air Force doctor being court-martialled for refusing a posting to Iraq said on Wednesday he believed the United States was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany. Australian-born Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith could face an unlimited jail sentence for disobeying an order to go to Iraq last year and four orders to prepare for his deployment. The case is the first of its kind in Britain over the war in Iraq. "As early as 2004 I regarded the United States to be on par with Nazi Germany as regards its activities in the Gulf," Kendall-Smith told the court amid a series of bitter exchanges with prosecutor David Perry. Perry asked: "Are you saying the U.S. is the moral equivalent of the Third Reich?" Kendall-Smith replied: "That's correct." The judge in the case has already ruled that orders for British troops to deploy to Iraq in 2005 were legal because the British presence was covered by a United Nations Security Council resolution passed after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Speaking firmly but often emotionally, Kendall-Smith testified in his own defense as the only witness called in the case. He said he initially tried to resign on learning he was being sent to Iraq, but later concluded it was his duty to remain in the Air Force and refuse the order. "I love the Air Force today as much as the day I volunteered, sir," he said.
Kendall-Smith's lawyers have conceded that Kendall-Smith did not obey orders. But they presented him as a conscientious officer trying to carry out his duty. "All I ask you to think about is that he is a human being, and he has wrestled with his conscience, and has taken a great moral stride," his lawyer, Philip Sapsford, told the panel. Prosecutors described Kendall-Smith, who holds both British and New Zealand citizenship, as an aggrieved officer who had repeatedly clashed with his superiors. Kendall-Smith's belligerent testimony showed he was "an easily moved, stubborn individual, prone to displays of temper and resentment," prosecutor Perry said. "(He) would have been difficult for any senior officer to deal with."
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| Posted by:Sleremble Spineter7889 |
| #20 Even the HISTORY CHANNEL as of last night proclaimed STALIN killed 25Milyuhn or more of his own people, to include the pre-war wilful starvation of the Ukraine. In any case, its the US DemoLeft and its MSM thats wilfully treating Dubya as hated despicable "Adolf BushHitler" for 2008. but whom is also an imperfect, misguided, semi/non-educated Male Brutish ideo HalfCommie HalfBrother/HalfComrade to Marx, Stalin and Mao, when it comes to the USA warring around the globe vv 9-11. The RINO agenda-less Dems are such for a reason, and that raeson entails having PC, "PLAUSIBLE DENIAL/DENIABLE" alibis should it become necessary to have Radical Islamist Spetzlamists deliberately attack Washington andor Amer cities. incurring such levels of casualties as to continue to induce the Fed to regulate. militarize, and Socialize everything while simul justifying no American-specific overseas military retaliation for any new domestic attacks. COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM MUST NOT RECEIVE BLAME FOR ANYTHING OR EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO AMERICA LOSING ITS SOVEREIGNTY, AND COMING UNDER OWG AND SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST WORLD ORDER, VOLUNTARILY ANDOR BY ARMED FORCE. AKA NATIONAL MILITARY DEFEAT IN WAR! The Left believes it will inevitably win becuz its ideo stands for any and every side, and no side except its own. WEIRDLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY SURVIVING GOP-CAUSED/BLAMED "AMER HIROSHIMAS", INCLUD PC ATTACKS = ASSSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON DUBYA AND GOP-CONGRESS = SAMEO SAMEO FOR SAVING AMERICA AND WORLD FROM GOP-CAUSED/BLAMED "NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP" AND NUKE WAR. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-13 00:16 |
| #19 "I wonder why I never hear any Jews comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany." You haven't been listening to the "right" people, cf. Chomsky and Finkelstein. |
| Posted by: Ernest Brown 2006-04-12 22:41 |
| #18 bad PR, SW |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-12 22:33 |
| #17 Groan. You got me there, huh. |
| Posted by: Bravo7 2006-04-12 22:32 |
| #16 Ah, so all that matters to you is the relative body count? How typical. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-04-12 21:42 |
| #15 In that situation I think it would be OK. 40 v's 3000 does not compare |
| Posted by: Bravo7 2006-04-12 21:16 |
| #14 Bravo7 - If I wiped out a village of 22...or 40? to get the 19 hijackers of 9/11 - would I be a war criminal? I thought so....(in advance) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-12 20:51 |
| #13 "I would happily compare anyone who kills another innocent human being as a Nazi.." And degrade the word and what it portends. Kind of like "fascist". |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-04-12 20:29 |
| #12 How about the wanton destruction of whole cities populated with civilians... By todays standards that is pretty unethical... Nevertheless war IS messy and those engaged in it get 'dirty': on both sides. I dont think you can be engaged in killing people and hold any moral high ground for very long.It simply does not wash. Most people see right through the propaganda BS... I would happily compare anyone who kills another innocent human being as a Nazi... |
| Posted by: Bravo7 2006-04-12 20:06 |
| #11 hmmm.... war criminal? by what definition? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-04-12 19:37 |
| #10 "To cite an British war criminal is pretty idiotic as well ..." Touchy feelings, mein herr? |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-04-12 18:43 |
| #9 " I'd like to present to you Marshal of the Royal Air Force, the late Sir Arthur Harris" #8 : To cite an British war criminal is pretty idiotic as well ... |
| Posted by: GSL 2006-04-12 18:25 |
| #8 that's a keeper! |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-04-12 17:51 |
| #7 One of the many reasons we continue to hear and read of these idiotic comparisons of the United States to Nazi Germany is the mainstream media. And since we're talking about a Tommy who made such an idiotic comparison, I'd like to present to you Marshal of the Royal Air Force, the late Sir Arthur Harris: "A journalist will say anything to earn a fast buck. I get my information from the horse's mouth, not from the rear end where they do." |
| Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-04-12 17:50 |
| #6 The people who repeatedly compare the United States to NAZI Germany are not only wrong, they are delusional and have no understanding of what the NAZI military did, especially in the Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. They not only greatly distort history, they completely rewrite it. This jerk should be hanged from a yardarm from that cruiser that's moored between Tower Bridge and Westminster, and left there. Lacquer the body with about 40 coats of clear varnish, irradiate it to he$$ and back to kill all the bacteria, and let him hang there until Charles' grandchildren are old men. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-04-12 17:26 |
| #5 I prefer the term "Nogoodnik" |
| Posted by: Trub 2006-04-12 14:28 |
| #4 To apply tht to a military deserter, represents a vile attempt to steal moral capital. It was intentional. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-04-12 14:03 |
| #3 Something happened. What about this thoery? Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith A highly competent and, by all accounts, pleasant man, Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, is on patrol in mountainous terrain. In the course of one sadly uncontrolled explosion, an iron bar is picked up by the force of the blast and driven clean through the front part of his head. Malcom is sent flying, but, to everybody's surprise, he survives the removal of the protruding bar. As he recovers, however, it is observed that his personality has dramatically changed, though his memory and intelligence remain apparently unaffected. In 2006, a physician named Harlow from London writes about him: "His equilibrium, or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities seems to have been destroyed. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires." The now extremely rude Malcom Kendall-Smith is an object of immense medical interest, for it seems clear, from his somewhat crude experience of psychosurgery, that one can alter the social behavior of the human animal by physically interfering with the frontal lobes of the brain. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-04-12 13:58 |
| #2 Jails need doctors too I suppose. Enjoy it, doc. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-04-12 13:46 |
| #1 media misuse of language alert A refusenik was a Soviet Jew who was refused an exit visa, in violation of international standards on human rights. To apply tht to a military deserter, represents a vile attempt to steal moral capital. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-04-12 13:38 |