Iran predictions and the responsibility to disobey illegal or immoral orders

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I just copied the introduction and conclusion, but the entire article is

extremely interesting (and upsetting), go here for the whole article:

_http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8678_

(http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8678)

At the _luncheon of the National Press Club on Feb. 17, 2006_

(http://npc.press.org/index.cfm?theday=17 & & themonth=2 & & theyear=2006) , the

chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, was asked by his interviewer, John

Donnelly: " Should people in the U.S. military disobey orders that they believe

are illegal? " _Pace's response_

(http://www.jcs.mil/chairman/speeches/060217NatPressClubLunch.html) :

" It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an

order that is either illegal or immoral. "

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There are also choices to be made by every American. _Where are the good

Americans?_ (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/brecher) Don't sit by and

let

this happen! Ask _Congress to ask Rumsfeld_

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062302111\

..html) whether tactical

nuclear weapons are being deployed. _Ask Congress to limit_

(http://www.antiwar.com/hirsch/?articleid=8359) the authority of _the executive

to order_

(http://www.history.navy.mil/colloquia/cch9b.html) the use of nuclear weapons

against

non-nuclear countries. Do whatever you can do to protect yourself and your

country.

 

A global nuclear war can lead to the death of every human being on this

planet. World War I and World War II killed 10 million and 60 million human

beings respectively, many more than anybody had anticipated before the wars

started. Nuclear weapons are a million times more powerful than the weapons used

in

WWI and WWII. We have a _National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass

Destruction_ (http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-17.html) , so let us also

combat _our own WMD_

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction)

!

Using _a single small nuclear weapon_

(http://www.nunnturnerfund.org/f_wmd411/f2c3.html) against Iran will start the

ball rolling, a snowball that will

roll downhill, gathering more mass and speed and momentum as it races toward

the abyss, engulfing every human being in its path of unimaginable

destruction, culminating in darkness, death, and extinction.

Make your moral choices now while you still can.

 

 

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This is an audio of Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector. It is slow at

the beginning but speaks of these same predictions at the end.

 

 

 

Scott Ritter

_Transcript and Audio on war with Iraq and Iran_

(http://www.traprockpeace.org/podcasts_transcripts/)

_World Report_ (http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/report.htm)

_http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/report.htm_

(http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/report.htm)