It’s Not Enough These Days To Simply Question Authority. You Gotta Speak With It Too

Hat-tip to Pastor Mark.

Can You Say, “My Cellmate Thinks I’m Sexy?”

Because that’s a distinct possibility for this coward.

Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.

“I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the now 24-year-old told AFP.

“I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,” or around 16 years old, he added.

Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant.

He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq.

On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war.

“I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,” Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.

“My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation… I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation,” he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.

You signed up to do a job, bud. You don’t get to decide which war is the war you are willing to fight. That’s not part of the deal and you damn well knew it, if not when you signed-up, then certainly by the time you were promoted to Sergeant. If you don’t like the war, serve out your time honorably and then protest it afterward.

I’ve got no respect or sympathy for you when brave men and women are doing their duty while you are not.

Have fun in prison.

Hat-tip to Southern Appeal.