“His oath is to the Constitution. This must put his immediate superiors in an uncomfortable situation.”
He does have a point...
An unlawful leader cannot give a lawful order. And an Officer is not required to follow an unlawful order.
The War Crimes trials of the Nazi’s and the Japanese made that precedent perfectly clear.
“An unlawful leader cannot give a lawful order.”
Exactly. I wonder if any other soldiers will jump on board and support their brother-in-arms.
(For Pete’s sake, Hussein didn’t even know the title is “Commander In Chief”; he said he would be “Commander AND Chief”. How can anyone in the military take this dolt seriously?)