By Walt Zlotow
Time for all US service personnel in Middle East to disobey illegal Trump orders to wage criminal war on Iran
Eight months ago, six US Congresspersons, all former military or intelligence community members, issued a video urging current service members to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
They stated “threats to our Constitution are coming from right here at home,” and repeatedly urged the military to “refuse illegal orders.” “No one has to carry out orders that violate the law, or our Constitution. Know that we have your back… don’t give up the ship.” They did not specify the illegal orders referred to but it was assumed they were Trump’s illegal orders for service personnel to obliterate little unarmed boats in the Caribbean imagined to be bringing drugs into the Homeland.
But the six didn’t have current military personnel backs. The six shut up when none of the other 529 congresspersons joined them in doing the principled thing of demanding military not engage in Trump administration war crimes whether they be bombing little unarmed boats, bombing imagined bad guys in Somalia 75 times in 2026, killing over a hundred Venezuelans to snatch Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife for a show trial in America.
Worst of all, the Silent Six remained mute when Trump ordered his war fighters to launch his criminal war on Iran that may plunge the world into recession if not depression. Every bomb, every missile they drop on Iran emanates from an illegal, indeed criminal order that kills mostly civilians in America’s lost cause to destroy Iran at the behest of Israel.
After 39 days of murderous bombing that killed thousands, Trump cried ‘uncle’ knowing he’d lost, forcing his negotiated a ceasefire. He thought he could salvage victory with a blockade of Iranian ports but that failed just as spectacularly. So he ordered his war fighters to attack again, except this time their targets were civilian infrastructure, obvious war crimes to any war fighter with a functioning moral compass.
The men and women carrying out these illegal orders from war criminal Trump and his unhinged defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dishonor their uniform. They are not serving their country. They are serving the war criminals that should be in the dock at The Hague, not in the White House and the Pentagon. And the phony Silent Six and their 529 fellow congresspersons doing nothing to end America’s criminal Iran war blowing up the Middle East, the world economy, possibly even unleashing nuclear weapons, are too busy scooping up Israel Lobby and US weapons makers’ money to advise military personnel to disobey illegal, criminal orders.
We need a massive military personnel sit down strike in the Middle East to end this madness and bring Trump and Hegseth to justice.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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@ Walter Zlotow : USA is about to experience a period of communal outrage when the true casualty rate and consequences of Trump’s mad Middle East adventures becomes common knowledge. The US Senate and Congress can no longer ignore the facts and the electorate will demand truth and justice. Caitlin Johnstone posted this essay which compliments the essay above.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-killed-those-us-troops-in-jordan?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=207612455&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4an0y2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Good comments from Walt Zlotow, but it won’t happen. A country indoctrinated in violence from the get-go isn’t suddenly about to become a peacenik. The forces for martial behaviour are overwhelming – whether they be the Military-Industrial Complex, the Israeli lobbyists, the politicians themselves… there’s no way in the world that the embedded momentum for killing other people will lessen.
https://centeronconscience.org/ is a US organisation that supports conscientious objectors