Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

November 14, 2007

The post-World War II trial of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg led most nations to accept a set of guidelines called the Nuremberg Principles. Under the Nuremberg Principles it is a war crime to plan, prepare, initiate, or wage a war of aggression.

In June 2006, 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, acting on his conviction that the war in Iraq is an illegal act of aggression, refused an order to ship out with his Army unit. His Court-Martial last February ended in a mistrial. Last week, a federal judge ruled that the military cannot put Watada on trial a second time unless it can prove that doing so does not constitute double jeopardy.

The predicament confronted by Lt. Watada and other soldiers of conscience was created when Congress allowed President Bush to initiate the war with Iraq ? a country that neither attacked nor threatened us. Congress and the White House share the moral responsibility for this undeclared, aggressive war.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.