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Operation New Market
Aug. 25th, 2005 11:27 am"With respect to Iraq, the U.S. government’s invasion of that country is a war of aggression against an independent country, one that never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. Moreover, given that the president has waged his war on Iraq without the constitutionally required declaration of war from Congress, the war is illegal under our own form of government.
"Therefore, the naming of a military operation in Iraq after the Battle of New Market is an abomination, a disgrace, and a denigration of those brave young VMI cadets in 1864 who fought and died not to invade another country, as the U.S. government has done in Iraq, but instead to resist the invasion of their homeland by the U.S. government.
"The Pentagon is free to name its operations in Iraq anything it wants but it should leave VMI’s New Market heroes out of it." -- Jacob Hornberger on LRC
"Therefore, the naming of a military operation in Iraq after the Battle of New Market is an abomination, a disgrace, and a denigration of those brave young VMI cadets in 1864 who fought and died not to invade another country, as the U.S. government has done in Iraq, but instead to resist the invasion of their homeland by the U.S. government.
"The Pentagon is free to name its operations in Iraq anything it wants but it should leave VMI’s New Market heroes out of it." -- Jacob Hornberger on LRC