British Air Force Dr. On Trial For Refusing To Go To War: "US Like Nazis"

[kpete]

US like Nazis: British Iraq refusnik
Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:17am ET

ALDERSHOT (Reuters) - A British Air Force doctor on trial for refusing to go to Iraq because he thought the war was illegal 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, in the first British case of its kind.

"As early as 2004 I regarded the United States to be on a par with Nazi Germany as regards its activities in the Gulf," he told the court.

Prosecutor David Perry asked: "Are you saying the U.S. is the moral equivalent of the Third Reich?" to which 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.

Kendall-Smith has testified in his own defense as the only witness called in the case.

more at:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-04-12T112149Z_01_ARM240477_RTRUKOC_0_US-iraq-americans-nazis.xml

[leesa]

1. Poor guy. He's absolutely right and all alone apparently.

So Britain is pretending the invasion is legal based on a UN Security Council resolution passed AFTER the invasion???

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. I think he should be referred to in the story as Dr Kendall-Smith.

"Dr" isn't like "Mr" or "Mrs". It's a special kind of honorific that one actually earns. Just think how even more sympathetic he'd seem if he were referred to as "Dr". I hope his defence team refer to him in court as "Dr" rather than by his rank, which I will grant you he also earned. It's just that calling him "Flight Lieutenant" would mean he belongs to the army (taking lives) and subject to their whim, while calling him "Dr" would signify that he belongs to a higher calling, the medical profession (saving lives).