It was probably difficult adjusting to having a detatched head...
Posted on 09/07/2006 5:01:30 AM PDT by leadpenny
Darrell Anderson, the young Lexington soldier who deserted to Canada last year after being wounded in Iraq, wants to come home.
Anderson, now 24, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Iraq while living in Canada, appearing at peace rallies and attacking the Bush administration in interviews with international publications. Earlier this year, he married a Canadian woman, which his mother said should guarantee him permanent residency in Canada.
But Lexington's Anita Anderson confirmed that her son now wants to return to the United States sometime within the next few weeks. He could be arrested as soon as he crosses the border, she said. If not, he plans to travel to Kentucky, turn himself in at Fort Knox, and face whatever punishment the Army imposes, she said.
A number of peace groups and activists -- possibly including Cindy Sheehan -- will meet him when he crosses the U.S. border, she said. She said she expects considerable press coverage.
Darrell Anderson was on a trip to northern Canada yesterday and unavailable for comment.
But Anita Anderson said she has urged him to stay in Canada.
"I've tried to talk him out of coming back, because he's probably going to get sponsorship in Canada now that he is married to a Canadian girl," she said. "But he's constantly stressed out and worried, and he feels like he can't live out the rest of his life this way."
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Bookmarked.
Apparently Canada is WORSE than military prison!!! WOW!
Looks like he's beginning to recognize the gravity of his actions...
Oh how nice...he is homesick....he needs to rot up in Canada.
He'll probably get better healthcare in the U.S. military prison than he would from the Canadian national health service.
Military Tribunal........... Desertion!
Jerk! I can understand coming back to face the consequences ... but aligning with Cindy Sheehan means he's not worthy of US citizenship.
He's free to do so.
I always thought that in times of war, deserters were shot.
So much for the good ol' days.
Ideally he'll spend years in Leavenworth making little rocks out of big ones. In fact, he'll probably get a dishonorable discharge and little or no prison time
We'd have run out of bullets during Vietnam.
I don't believe anyone has been executed for desertion since WWII.
What way is that? The way of the weasel? Fug 'em. That's the path he chose.
But his other mother, Sheehan, wants him here in the states to be a martyr to her cause.
Winter is coming wiseguy.
I'll think about you while I play a few rounds of golf under the palm trees in Phoenix.
You made your choice. Now suck it up and learn to love that snow shovel.
Cindy Sheehan showing up will bring out the media...would be better if no one came and they didn't get publicity...
It was probably difficult adjusting to having a detatched head...
Screw him!
Tough toenails, we don't want him.
We are crazy if we let this guy in .....he's solely doing it for the media attention.
Don't let him get away with this!!!!!!!
Yeah.
He should have thought about that BEFORE he decided to desert. I say leave him in Canada for the rest of his cowardly life and, if he is EVER caught in the US . . . . . firing squad!!
Although I believe it once did,marrying a US citizen no longer guarantees an alien the right to reside here.I'd be surprised if it did in Canada because western countries realized long ago that marriage was a vehicle used by undesirables to scam their way around immigration restrictions.
It's not really a circus until Cindy Sheehan steps out of the Clown Car.
No. He's not welcome. If he comes back, arrest and shoot him for desertion during wartime.
It would be funny as hell if Canada drafted him and sent him to Afghanistan!
He's a THIEF! It's *MY* tax dollar that gave him the training, gave him the GI bill money, *MY* tax dollar that gives him free health care for life.
Look up "hyperbole."
There were plenty of desertions during Vietnam.
~Nam vet
From the pic, it looks like he has converted to islam-o-fascism.
Too bad. Stay away, we don't need cowards. This coward didn't have a problem collecting military pay, until he was actually expected to earn it. I have the highest respect for our military, but anyone who joins it, and doesn't expect to actually have to be a part of a military action is an idiot.
Is he a muslim convert? What is up with that beard?
"....and face whatever punishment the Army imposes, she said."
Do either of them think he has a choice?
Marrying an American does not guarantee one the right to live in the US.
A representative of an organization that advises soldiers in such situations said yesterday Darrell Anderson's track record as a public critic of the Army and U.S. actions in Iraq might not help his chances of getting off with light punishment.
So he abandons his obligations, runs off to another country to escape punishment, spends his time running around badmouthing us, and then comes back here and aligns himself with that nut Cindy Sheehan.
Abd then his mother has the nerve to blame it all on that he was ordered to kill people in Iraq as a soldier.
Throw away the key.
Bring him back, have a trial, and then shoot him.
Desertion during time of war. I think that is punishable by death. It used to be any way and it still should be. If not it should be a very long prison sentence. That is the only way to deal with cowards.
There must be a distinction in there somewhere. Please elaborate.
Guess he has no hope of Jimmy Carter ever getting re-elected. LOL.
At a picnic for resisters in Fort Erie, Canada, Anderson lies with his head in his wife's lap
and his mother sitting alongside him. He is wearing a T-shirt saying AWOL and a broad
smile, even though he joined the military in the first place to give himself more options and
now he finds himself more trapped than he ever was. His claim for refugee status was denied
and he thinks it will be just a few months before he gets his deportation papers. His wife is
Canadian, so that might help. The US border is just five minutes' drive away but he can't go
back. He says that doesn't bother him. "All those rich people in my country sent me to die
for oil and my education," he says. "I don't feel like I want to go back right now. Maybe if
things change."
Not to sound picky, but you only get free health care "for life" if you stay in the full 20 years and retire.
If you get out before the full 20 (or flee to Canada with your tail between your legs like this whelp) then you lose that "free" health care.
But I get your point anyway.
You are right, unfortunately. They get the best health care money can buy.
Read on in the thread "BS" guy.
People in Hell want ice water.
And, no, I wasn't thinking draft evaders. Draft evaders were not deserters. Get your terms straight.
He should have gotten the Private Slovik treatment.
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