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The first American war resister deported from Canada – where he had fled after refusing to be deployed to Iraq – was sentenced to 15 months in jail yesterday at a court martial hearing in Colorado.
Pte. Robin Long, 25, of Boise, Idaho, was also given a dishonourable discharge after pleading guilty to charges of desertion.
The sentence was the longest any convicted army deserter had received since the beginning of the 2003 Iraq war, said retired U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright, a former diplomat who resigned from her post out of protest at the war's outset.
Originally posted by duffster
You might say it's only 200 but they are the 200 that had the balls to stand up and say this is wrong and i'm not going,i wish them all luck in the quest for freedom.
Originally posted by bodrul
15 months sounds good
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
......may think he made a heroic decision not to continue engaging in warfare in a war based on BS and Profiteering.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
reply to post by SectionEight
I might have agreed with you on some of the previous wars, but on this latest debacle, I'm not so sure. Whether you want to accept it or not, this country is DEEPLY divided on this war---The reasons for going into it (LIES), and the reasons for CONTINUING it. I'm not so sure this guy is going to recieve the widespread ugliness you foresee him having. In fact, I think that a great deal of folks who are conflicted with this WAR, and not the soldiers fighting in it, may think he made a heroic decision not to continue engaging in warfare in a war based on BS and Profiteering.