I must wonder, did you disobey such orders when you were serving in our military? When serving, I called in airstrikes when requested...I felt I was doing the right thing...at least my conscience was not offended. I may have been responsible for the death of many enemy combatants. I do admit this that if I had been a "grunt" instead of a cryptologist/communication specialist and I was looking in the face of an enemy who was trying to kill me, I am sure that I would have done whatever I could have to preserve my life or the life of my fellow soldiers. I am not a student of government enough to make the calls that you apparently feel that you are qualified to make, and therein, I have not had the inclination, nor the knowledge, nor the temerity to declare certain wars or armed conflicts which America has been involved in that are in your assessment "illegal"..I was a soldier in the Viet Nam era....I was injured and am an amputee and rated 100% war service connected disabled. I know about Grenada, OIF, and the current war in Afghanistan since my son was injured in Iraq and is still in recovery. But I certainly cannot accept your assessment that a military person sent on a combat mission in an undeclared war and at the command of his superiors is a war criminal. The men and women that I served with and that my son served with and who are now serving were/are overwhelmingly men/women of integrity, honor, and good character who only wanted to be loyal and get back home. It does bother me much that you apparently can imply that my son who only did his duty as he saw it and will now suffer the physical and emotional wounds of that awful war for the rest of his life is in your estimate a "war criminal." I don't like feeling what I am feeling right now toward you or your theory . I guess it is best that we simply agree to disagree.