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Military Law

Jul. 26, 2006

Serving in Combat Shares Similarities With Practicing Law

Forum Column - I read with interest "Army Officer Worried About War Crimes Faces Tough Legal Battle" (Daily Journal, July 13). I strongly disagree with what Lt. Ehern Watada had to say.

Forum Column

By David McCarthy



I read with interest "Army Officer Worried About War Crimes Faces Tough Legal Battle" (Daily Journal, July 13). I strongly disagree with what Lt. Ehern Watada had to say. I was and am sure that the war we have fought and continue to fight is just. I was appalled that Watada, without ever having been to Iraq, would say, "The wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the Iraqi people is not only a terrible moral i...

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