Canada court: AWOL U.S. soldiers not refugees
Newsbot @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:37 pm
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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=RoyalHighlander" target="_blank">RoyalHighlander</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-11-15 16:33:05
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RoyalHighlander @ Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:37 pm
Well BOOO HOOO for them.. Why did they join the military to begin with?? Free food lodging and a nifty set of clothing??? If you arent preparded to go do your duty DONT SIGN UP!.. DAmn cry babies as far as im concerned.. A soldier goes where he is sent.. He cant pick and choose where to go.. "oh well I dont like the weather in Alaska too cold please send me where its warmer/ colder/ nicer" too bad.. Now face the music like a man 
Wullu @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:27 pm
Hope these two like Kansas. Here's hoping they get to spend alot of quality time there.
Scape @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:37 pm
Ah, they would have killed themselves had they went. 17 a day, what's 2 more?
Heavy_Metal @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:59 pm
guy in the picture looks all pissy, like we fucking owe him something.
hey COWARD, you've gotten two free years, time to face the music.
like Highlander said if you're not prepared to do your duty as a soldier, don't fucking join up!!
sasquatch2 @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:49 pm
Despite Cretin....Trudeumania has finally ended....
Wullu @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:06 pm
Scape Scape:
Ah, they would have killed themselves had they went. 17 a day, what's 2 more?
17 a day? So given that the invasion was about 1700 days ago, that comes to around 29,000 US KIA. Real number, 3800.
Using the same new math that your little Iraqi death calculator in your sig uses?
Moot point anyway. These two will not be put in a gallows for desertion in a time of war. Thinking a fair sentance would be a stay in Leavenworth until the last members of their recruit courses retire from active service. With any luck at all they will be there 30 plus years.
ridenrain @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:43 pm
More die crossing the street.
More die in drug overdoses and car accidents.
These 'tards are garbage and we don't need more garbage in Canada.
EyeBrock @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:08 pm
ridenrain ridenrain:
More die crossing the street.
More die in drug overdoses and car accidents.
These 'tards are garbage and we don't need more garbage in Canada.
More die in drug overdoses and car accidents.
These 'tards are garbage and we don't need more garbage in Canada.
But we keep letting bogus refugees in.
Scape @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:23 pm
America suffers an epidemic of suicides among traumatised army veterans
$1:
At least 6,256 US veterans took their lives in 2005, at an average of 17 a day, according to figures broadcast last night. Former servicemen are more than twice as likely than the rest of the population to commit suicide.
Such statistics compare to the total of 3,863 American military deaths in Iraq since the invasion in 2003 - an average of 2.4 a day, according to the website ICasualties.org.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2-xER8NS8&eurl=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/15/cbs-news-investigates-shocking-rate-of-veteran-suicides/[/youtube]
Such statistics compare to the total of 3,863 American military deaths in Iraq since the invasion in 2003 - an average of 2.4 a day, according to the website ICasualties.org.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqFJAByDU40&feature=related[/youtube]
bootlegga @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:26 pm
sasquatch2 sasquatch2:
Despite Cretin....Trudeumania has finally ended....
WTF does this have to do with the thread?
Calgary123 @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:53 pm
I say let them stay.
They may have volunteered, but I'm certain they did so on the assumption that their own government wouldn't wage a war of aggression on a country that posed no threat to the US.
Based on the entire war being a proven sham.... a fraud of epic proportion.... their rejecting an order to fight a war based on lies and fabrication should be taken into consideration.
When this goes down in the history books, these men will be considered to be real patriots in a crowd of cowards and fools. These men are standing up for the real morality issue which seems to be ignored among the warmongers who seem to conveniently forget about the fact that WMD's was a fabrication, and that the justifications for going into Iraq have changed along the way in order to pacify those that keep wondering why the hell this started in the first place. Bush can keep reminding the uneducated and ignorant about how Saddam spearheaded 911, and the unconscious populace keeps sucking on the teat of FOX News to keep them frightened of terrorists who may jump out from under their beds.... and why Rudy will be their protector from the evildoers.
It takes more courage to call a spade a spade, and take a moral stand. These men should not be asked to fight and possibly die in an unecessary war that was sold as something important and noble, when in fact it has proven to be imperialistic at its very core.
ridenrain @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:08 pm
Calgary123 Calgary123:
I say let them stay.
They may have volunteered, but I'm certain they did so on the assumption that their own government wouldn't wage a war of aggression on a country that posed no threat to the US.
They may have volunteered, but I'm certain they did so on the assumption that their own government wouldn't wage a war of aggression on a country that posed no threat to the US.
Indeed, who would have expected that American military volunteers would have had to carry out the plans of American military generals.
SprCForr @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:30 pm
They volunteered, one of them an number of times. They knew there was a chance and they knew exactly what their part in it would be.
They ran. They didn't stay to face the music, thereby demonstrating to one and all the courage of their convictions. They ran. They will never be considered heroes or patriots because of that. If they had disobeyed orders and done their time in Leavenworth they would at least have earned some little respect for that alone at the least.
Just as those who ran from Vietnam will never be either, and the history books have been written on that one.
Tricks @ Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:53 pm
SprCForr SprCForr:
They volunteered, one of them an number of times. They knew there was a chance and they knew exactly what their part in it would be.
They ran. They didn't stay to face the music, thereby demonstrating to one and all the courage of their convictions. They ran. They will never be considered heroes or patriots because of that. If they had disobeyed orders and done their time in Leavenworth they would at least have earned some little respect for that alone at the least.
Just as those who ran from Vietnam will never be either, and the history books have been written on that one.
R=UP Agreed 100%
They ran. They didn't stay to face the music, thereby demonstrating to one and all the courage of their convictions. They ran. They will never be considered heroes or patriots because of that. If they had disobeyed orders and done their time in Leavenworth they would at least have earned some little respect for that alone at the least.
Just as those who ran from Vietnam will never be either, and the history books have been written on that one.