Sworn to Defend the Constitution

I was asked how I can call myself a patriot and run this website the other day. Let me remind you that I have been serving in the Army National Guard for over four years and plan on continuing to do so. Here is the oath of enlistment I took when I joined:

“I, Daniel _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the State of Indiana against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of Indiana and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to law and regulations. So help me God.”

Notice that you obey the leaders “according to law and regulations.” The first allegiance was sworn to the Constitution. I have a duty to uphold the Constitution, particularly if the leaders do not.

An attack on Iran would be a flagrant violation of our Constitution, which stipulates that treaties ratified by the Senate become the supreme law of the land; that the United Nations Charter – which the Senate ratified on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2 – expressly forbids attacks on other countries unless they pose an imminent danger; that there is no provision allowing some other kind of “preemptive” or “preventive” attack against a nation that poses no imminent danger; and that Iran poses no such danger to the United States or its allies.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told reporters on April 25 that Gen. David Petraeus would be giving a briefing “in the next couple of weeks” that would provide detailed evidence of “just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability.”

Petraeus’ staff alerted U.S. media to a major news event in which captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed.

Small problem. When American munitions experts went to Karbala to inspect the alleged cache of Iranian weapons they found nothing that could be credibly linked to Iran.

News to you? That’s because this highly embarrassing episode went virtually unreported in the media – like the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no corporate media to hear it crash.

So Mullen and Petraeus live, uninhibited and unembarrassed, to keep searching for Iranian weapons so the media can then tell a story more supportive to efforts to blacken Iran. A fiasco is only a fiasco if folks know about it.

The suppression of this episode is the most significant aspect, in my view, and a telling indicator of how difficult it is to get honest reporting on these subjects.

Meanwhile, it was announced that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had formed his own Cabinet committee to investigate U.S. claims and attempt to “find tangible information and not information based on speculation.”

It later came out that there were no WMD’s in Iraq, just as there are none in Iran or Syria. What more do we need to hear before Americans wake up and prosecute Bush as a war criminal — before we have a dictatorship in our country?!? They knew damn well Iraq did not have any WMD’s, as the UN made sure to get rid of these back in the mid-1990s, never mind the U.S. sold these to Saddam Hussein in the first place, mostly for the purpose of killing Iranians back in the 80s!

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