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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=29533" target="_blank">Let war resisters stay in Canada, U.S. protesters say</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/12-uncle-sam" target="_blank">Uncle Sam</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=kitty" target="_blank">kitty</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-27 10:57:09
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[mtbr]

Send them back ...it's a voluntary military why did they enlist if they thought they might have to fight?

[martin14]

no.. they volunteered.. they signed a paper to join the military.

send them back to the states... no question

[Bacardi4206]

These are the ones that enlisted before the Iraq war, they enlisted knowing they had to fight but once they found there government was fucking them over and they would be fighting for nothing, oil generally.

Wouldn't you flee as well? When you found out that your only purpose for the war, was to trade your life for oil...

If anybody joined after that entire thing was generally known, then they deserved to be shipped back to America to face charges because they enlisted knowing they were going to war, and that U.S. is in there for profit.

[SprCForr]

So make your objection known to the chain of command, take your lumps and carry on.

[mtbr]

The article makes no mention of signing before the Iraq war.

[sasquatch2]

These are deserter not draft dodgers. Send them back.

Personally I don't in principle see the difference but the law is very clear.

Somewhere in the NATO treaty and the US/Canada extradition treaties this is dealt with.

They are breaking the law and Canada is breaking a treaty(s) by letting them stay.

[martin14]

Because they dont get to make those decisions.

The military operates by a chain of command, and ends with the legal representantives of the country (i.e. the government)

The govt decides, the military does what it is commanded.

Thats the way the system is structured.. without it, everyone

would be president, and our society would dissolve into complete chaos..

even a village has a chief.. and the boss makes the decisions.

[Bacardi4206]

mtbr mtbr:

The article makes no mention of signing before the Iraq war.

I diddn't mean the ones in the article, I was talking about all of them. The ones that enlisted before the Iraq war diddn't have any say in the fact there lifes were meant to be traded for oil. IMO they are the only ones that DESERVE to stay. The others knew they had to go to war, and they knew the reasons for the war and yet enlisted anyways. They deserve to be sent back.

I am just clearifing that not all of them were in the same situation as others, which was a direct response to "Send them back ...it's a voluntary military why did they enlist if they thought they might have to fight?"

[ziggy]

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

mtbr mtbr:

The article makes no mention of signing before the Iraq war.

I diddn't mean the ones in the article, I was talking about all of them. The ones that enlisted before the Iraq war diddn't have any say in the fact there lifes were meant to be traded for oil. IMO they are the only ones that DESERVE to stay. The others knew they had to go to war, and they knew the reasons for the war and yet enlisted anyways. They deserve to be sent back.

I am just clearifing that not all of them were in the same situation as others, which was a direct response to "Send them back ...it's a voluntary military why did they enlist if they thought they might have to fight?"

Your getting dangerously close to foiler territory there mon ami.

I think Bush honestly thought he was doing the right thing when he invaded Iraq.

[Brenda]

Are they in danger when they go back to their own country? No? Send them back, or have them apply for a PR visa (including all the costs that come with an application...). There is no need for Canadian taxpayers to support them.

[martin14]

$1:

Are they in danger when they go back to their own country?

i think they run the risk of a military prison term, which wont be a lot of fun.. but they wont be killed..

[Tricks]

Send them back. The U.S. would do the same for us, so do it back.

[Brenda]

martin14 martin14:

$1:

Are they in danger when they go back to their own country?

i think they run the risk of a military prison term, which wont be a lot of fun.. but they wont be killed..

That is no danger. Not enough for giving them a free ride here.

[kenmore]

let em stay..I mean shit we let people stay for less valid reasons...
where are they now in mosque in Vancover?