Resistance

Photo: British police including an armed officer, center right, stand guard at the door of the new London home of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during an anti Tony Blair Iraq war demonstration Wednesday June 27, 2007. Tony Blair had resigned from his post only a few hours earlier. The demonstrators left peacefully. (AP Photo/Max Nash)

More resistance, this time in the USA:

Marines Drop Charges Against Vet Who Claimed Iraq War is Illegal

Liam Madden, the Iraq War veteran who claimed the military attack on Iraq was “an illegal war of aggression under Nuremberg principles” and that “war crimes were being committed in Iraq,” received word today that the Marines have dropped the charges against him rather than provide a forum for these issues to be debated. The Marines had claimed his comments were “disloyal” and threatened to reduce his discharge from honorable to less than honorable. “I planned to argue that my comments were accurate and therefore not disloyal. In fact, it is the duty of veterans and active duty members of the military to stand up and tell their leaders when war crimes are being committed,” said Madden. “Now that the military has chickened out and dropped these charges I hope others will join me in speaking out against this illegal war.”

I was very impressed by the speech this young man gave. It is full of wisdom, and as he says: YOU CANNOT WIN A WAR CRIME.

Madden’s Speech: You Can’t Win a War Crime

Future events:

Iraq Moratorium Day – September 21 and every third Friday thereafter ~ "I hereby make a commitment that on Friday, September 21, 2007, and the third Friday of every subsequent month I will break my daily routine and take some action, by myself or with others, to end the War in Iraq."

And United for Peace and Justice is planning regional mass protests on October 27, 2007. More information to follow on that one.