u Americans need to know the kind of people in today's military: They will follow any order given them. The pathetic denial of the obvious is most chilling. If the order were given, this guy would probably kill anyone or anything -- anywhere.

Carl F. Worden

To: Henry Newton CPT

Sir, I didn't send anything to you, and you are not on my mailing list. The article was obviously forwarded to you.

Now look, I am a lifelong registered Republican Christian conservative who voted for Bush, and I am joined by a vast number of Americans who also voted for Bush, and have also vowed never to make that mistake again.

Allow me to reintroduce you to the oath you took. You swore an oath to support and defend the CONSTITUTION, and not necessarily the government of the United States. If the government of the United States is operating in compliance with the Constitution, no conflict exists. But when the government is operating in violation of the Constitution, you have a sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and to refuse to obey an illegal order. If you fail in that duty, you are a traitor to your country and to your uniform. That is what the Founding Fathers of this nation intended, and your ignorance of the Constitution is no excuse for you or your comrades in arms to follow an illegal order to wage an illegal war -- but that is exactly what you did.

By God, if you swear an oath to the Constitution, you better damn well read it!

Under Article I, Section 8, only the Congress of the United States has the exclusive power to declare war. Further, there is no provision in the Constitution allowing the Congress to hand that power over to the president without a constitutional amendment being passed to allow it. No such constitutional amendment has ever been passed. Further, the so-called "War Powers Act" is not a constitutional amendment, and therefore does not have any effect on the standing constitutional requirement that only the Congress has the power to declare war. The Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

In the instant case, Congress passed a "resolution" (no such thing exists in the Constitution) to give the president the authority to wage war on Iraq at his discretion. That was blatantly illegal. In fact, I am attaching an article I personally wrote titled, "When Representative Ron Paul Asked For A Declaration Of War" Read that article and you will discover that the government of the United States, as defined by the Constitution, no longer exists. It has been overthrown without a shot being fired.

Now I remind you: You yourself not only swore an oath, but you swore it before God and to the people of the United States to protect the Constitution with your life. That isn't happening.

I'm 54 and a witness to the Viet Nam War. No, I was not in the military. I was sent to Viet Nam under private contract, and what I saw there disturbed me very much.

58,000 kids like you were killed in Viet Nam, and thousands more were crippled for life. They were my age, and many of my high school classmates died there. The fight was against the spread of Communism. Today, this government has reinstated full trade relations with COMMUNIST Viet Nam, and they did it without requiring the Vietnamese government to make a full accounting of our MIA/POWs. It was all for money, and in the final analysis, every one of those 58,000 kids killed in Viet Nam died in vain. It was all for nothing, and it was another result of our government waging an undeclared war. You and your friends are being killed in an undeclared war in Iraq, and me and mine do not want your sacrifice to be in vain. Sounds real anti, un-American, now don't it??

You want me to support you? You want me to support the troops? Well here's my support: I don't want a single Henry Newton to die in another undeclared, illegal war waged by a president who placed his left hand on the Bible, raised his right hand to God, and swore to uphold and defend a Constitution he had no intention of obeying. I don't want you to die in vain, Henry Newton. That wasn't what you signed up for, and you know it.

I don't have any problem sending a Henry Newton to his death or dismemberment defending this nation, nor do I have a problem going myself. But Americans like myself, who understand their solemn duty to protest blatant violations of constitutional law by this government, will not be out on the street waving the flag while you march off blindly obeying an illegal order to wage war. Neither will you and yours be spit upon, be called "baby-killers", or in any other way dishonored for failing to have the personal integrity to stand up for the Constitution. We regard you and yours as pawns and victims, but we will hold you in deadly contempt for taking that oath of ignorance if you ever follow an illegal order to fire on American citizens trying to reinstate the constitutional rule of law that has been stolen from us.

That will be the ultimate test of your character, and that of your other comrades in arms. That day is coming, sir.

Carl F. Worden

And his terse reply was:

Carl,

Look I don't know you, nor do I know where you are from. Last time I checked our Commander in Chief wasn't in violation of the constitution, my oath to uphold it, nor have I received any unlawful orders ever. Go believe whatever you want but seriously, don't email me again.

Thank you

CPT Henry A. Newton

Food for thought, for the truly thoughtful. Carl F. Worden

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