Iraq protest officer says US behaved ‘like Nazis’. Peter Graff and Shan Ross at The Scotsman – Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a British RAF doctor refused to follow an order to deploy to Iraq. At his trial, he said that he had decided that the United States is acting like Nazis. [grabbe]
Kendall-Smith made his remarks amid a series of bitter exchanges with David Perry, prosecuting, at a hearing in Aldershot, Hampshire.
“As early as 2004 I regarded the United States to be on par with Nazi Germany as regards its activities in the Gulf,” Kendall-Smith told the court.
Mr Perry, asking Kendall-Smith for clarification, said: “Are you saying the US is the moral equivalent of the Third Reich?”
Kendall-Smith replied: “That’s correct.”
He then continued: “I have documents in my possession which support my assertions.
“This is on the basis that ongoing acts of aggression in Iraq, and systematically applied war crimes, provide a moral equivalent between the US and Nazi Germany.”
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Good for him. It’s nice to know that at least one man is willing to do what everyone in the US military is obligated by their oath of service to do.
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