West Point Graduates Against The War

[IChing]

OUR PURPOSE

To help reclaim the honor of the United States Of America



Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor is a basic attribute of character. That we are no longer cadets is irrelevant. We stand appalled by the deceitful behavior of the government of the United States and, in particular, its widely known malefactors. Lying, cheating, stealing, delivering evasive statements and quibbling not only has demeaned these deceivers and the United States of America, but has placed vast numbers of innocent people in deadly peril. We will not serve the lies.

The war in Iraq was launched illegally. It has since killed tens of thousands of innocents, causing incalculable damage to Iraq and the Iraqi people, as well as the reputation of the United States of America. We will not serve the lies.

When we West Point graduates took our commissioning oath of office one past June morning, we swore to protect our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The deceitful connivances of the current administration have resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation’s interests: politically, economically, militarily, and morally. We now stand to protect our nation from these deceivers. We will not serve their lies.

We seek justice for all victims of this illegal war, both servicemen and servicewomen, and the citizens of Iraq.


To our purpose we invoke the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence whereby we too “mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, & our sacred Honor.”



http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/ourpurpose_2.htm


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[fooj]

1. Yes, it is. We've got a thread going on it...

Come join us.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2568636

Peace.:hi:

[theHandpuppet]

2. I thought these quotes particularly apropos....

... at this time in history and with the looming possibility that the Bushreich may decide to play with their new "bunker buster" nukes:

Omar N. Bradley, Class of 1915
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”

“Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.”

“With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.”