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Politics : Long Live The Death Penalty! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (124)	1/13/2003 7:10:07 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 828

I think an orderly military requires that all orders within the chain of command be obeyed. So did the Germans. That's why a lot of them ended up at the Nuremberg trials. A soldier is not required to obey an order to commit a war crime. "I was only following orders" is not an acceptable defense at a war crimes trial. (This presumes, of course, that your side won the war. Or at least has not lost it yet.) If one decides to disobey orders (i.e. an individual decision), there are contemporaneous consequences, usually followed by judicial proceedings. If things work as the SHOULD, that soldier should be found not guilty. And the officer giving the order should be arrested and charged.