Cowardly Ehren Watada
A moonbat frenzy is taking place on the west coast at the trial of disgraced 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. Watada joined the military and then decided he didnt have to go to Iraq with the rest of the troops under his command. The anti-war crowd, led by moonbat and Katrina Rescuer, Sean Penn, are on hand hoping that somehow, the military court will let Watada walk away with no punishment.
But that’s not going to happen. I love it that a military court doesn’t put up with zany shenanigans and stunts by the defense attorneys. The defense wanted to argue the legality of the war. The judge denied the motion. The defense wanted to call a long list of anti-war activists like Cindy Sheehan to the stand. The judge said his witnesses were irrelevant. The defense wanted to claim that Watada had a first amendment right to free speech to criticize the President. The judge said that as an officer those rights had limits.
From Reuters here:
FORT LEWIS, Wash (Reuters) – The U.S. government began its case against an Army officer being court-martialed for refusing to fight inIraq by accusing him on Tuesday of making “disgraceful” statements and abandoning his unit.
First Lt. Ehren Watada faces up to four years in a military prison and a dishonorable discharge if convicted on a charge of missing movements for not deploying to Iraq and two charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for his criticism of the war.
“The accused sat comfortably in his office while the soldiers in his unit deployed to Iraq,” said Capt. Scott Van Sweringen, the prosecuting attorney. “The manner and content of his statements were disgraceful.”
“There are no real facts in dispute here,” said Watada’s lawyer, Eric Seitz. “The only real question is why.”
Seitz told reporters on Monday he would consider a lighter sentence for Watada as a victory after the military judge limited the scope of the defense strategy.
The judge, Lt. Col. John Head, denied the defense’s motion to argue the legality of the war, saying it was not a matter for a military court. He also disallowed the defense’s entire witness list as irrelevant.
Defense lawyers had intended to argue that his comments were free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution. The judge decided prior to the trial that there are limits to an officer’s rights to free speech.
This sounds like an open and shut case to me. Even Watada’s own lawyer knows that the facts are not in dispute and is willing to declare any leniency by the court as a “victory.”
Watada will be going to Leavenworth to pound great big rocks into little teeny rocks the size of his shriveled testicles. The name Watada will likely remain as a synonym for cowardice in wartime.
