Duty Honor Country
West Point Graduates Against The War is a grassroots movement to redeem the honor of our country, which stands opposed to the Bush regime and its callous disregard for honorable behavior. The West Point Honor Code was assaulted by Bush’s falsehoods, which culminated with Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations on February 5, 2003.
The West Point Honor Code states: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.” It defines honor and duty as a way of life. This provides graduates with a lifelong sense of duty, a shared responsibility for them to do the right thing, even admonishing our country’s leadership when democracy and its inherent freedoms are at stake.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a champion of the right to dissent. He stated: “Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
Eisenhower was clear, when it came to preventive war, the kind that Bush and most members of Congress have embraced. Eisenhower said: “When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
When West Point graduates took their commissioning oath of office, they swore to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The deceitful connivances of the Bush regime has resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation’s interests: politically, economically, militarily, and morally. The time has come for every American to speak out about these deplorable conditions.
We must seek justice for all victims of this illegal war, our military and the citizens of Iraq. We stand opposed to the undoing of Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms by this most dangerous, oppressive regime.
The West Point Honor Code states: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.” It defines honor and duty as a way of life. This provides graduates with a lifelong sense of duty, a shared responsibility for them to do the right thing, even admonishing our country’s leadership when democracy and its inherent freedoms are at stake.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a champion of the right to dissent. He stated: “Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
Eisenhower was clear, when it came to preventive war, the kind that Bush and most members of Congress have embraced. Eisenhower said: “When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
When West Point graduates took their commissioning oath of office, they swore to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The deceitful connivances of the Bush regime has resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation’s interests: politically, economically, militarily, and morally. The time has come for every American to speak out about these deplorable conditions.
We must seek justice for all victims of this illegal war, our military and the citizens of Iraq. We stand opposed to the undoing of Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms by this most dangerous, oppressive regime.
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