Quote from: Christopher MonkeyHe is commiting a crime by disobeying an order from higher command, if the war is illegal then HC face the punishment, not the squaddies.

Its not allways the case, as Eagle was trying to point out with the German soldiers that have been commited of war crimes over the years that could have easily said no.  Your are respnosible for your actions.  Which is why I can understand why he took a stance.

I really dont have a strong opinion on this though whether he was right or not.  One on hand no one should blindly follow orders when it is clear they are wrong for whatever reason. Moralls, Legal Reasons, whatever.

But on the other case, he was wearing the uniform, you represent the queen, you cant just pick and choose which orders you like.  Imagine the problem that there would be in the chain in the command if all orders were debated.  I get the feeling the judge was making an example of this.

bit of a difference to having political views re: Iraq & gassing a bunch of jews - hes not getting done for refusing to take part in the war/invasion/whatever - hes refused to go there after the invasion has already taken place when there is a UN mandate for the troops to be there & the permission of a democratically elected government.

taking into account both sides of the argument i can see max, sadly mate i disagree with you on this.

firstly he knew what he was doing when he went into the recruiting office. to become an officer, let alone a doctor you need to approach the army to ask them to put you through their training to get any sort of benifits. he is an adult, he makes his own descisions and he cannot go back on something he signed a legal contract for.

also the moral obligation. without him deploying to iraq, there is one less doctor to treat wounded civillians.

seeing as the current tide of car bombings are against civillians. so if his job is to treat civillians (which a main part of the reason we are out there,  hearts and minds etc...) there is one less trauma trained medical practicioner out there to save little sammy from the horrible extreemists and their exploding cars.

the guy should be shot. its the rules of life.
you are governed by the decisions you make now, will decide what future you will have.