Posted on 07/15/2008 5:25:26 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 15 (Reuters) - Canada deported on Tuesday the first of some 200 Americans who deserted the U.S. military and sought refugee status to protest against the Iraq War.
Robin Long, 25, was removed a day after a Federal Court judge in Vancouver rejected his claim that he would suffer irreparable harm if returned to the United States. He fled across the border in 2005 as his army tank unit was preparing to deploy to Iraq.
The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed Long's removal, but declined to give other details, citing privacy laws. Long's refugee claim had already been rejected and he could not appeal Monday's court ruling.
The issue of U.S. deserters has evoked memories of Canada's acceptance of tens of thousands of draft dodgers and deserters during the Vietnam War. But it has also exposed a political split in the country -- even within its courts -- over what role it should play today.
Ottawa has deployed soldiers in Afghanistan but has refused to participate in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
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I hope the USCMJ trial you get is swift, harsh, and results in you spending as long as possible in the stockade and getting a dishonorable discharge.
You disgrace the service and your nation.
The military doesnt want him. They discharged the turd.
Throw his ass in the brig and then throw the key away. Make him an example of him to others who would desert in a time of war.
Barack will surely devise a program for him where his leadership abilities will be used to advantage.
I still say we need to revoke the citizenship of these idiots and don’t let them back into the country.
“Just say NO!” to taking back deserters.
Perhaps a cabinet post?
You can read the article at http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/ap_deserter_071508/
I don't trust a hippie to know what the Army is going to do.
So, I will take your word for it. Please, please, 3 times please - tell me they gave this creep a dishonorable discharge.
Yea maybe with Clark.
I had read in an earlier report that the Army discharged him and that he was “hiding out” for nothing.
Don’t let them back in.
I’d like to see a constitutional amendment stating that if you desert from the military, you forfeit your American citizenship. That way we can keep the cowardly scum out of OUR country and out of our gene pool.
Good for Canada. No one forced Robin Long to join the military.
It’s about damned time the Canuckistanis cleaned house, and sent the trash back home.
The only "harm" this drama queen faces is being ignored. He was given a general discharge from the Army.
Hey, Robin yankee-doodle-dandy Long - take off, eh, ya hoser!
I live 13 miles from Trail, BC, in Wa. state, and the only radio I get is Canadian. You should have heard the peacenixs crying this morning.Just north of Trail is where they hold the draft dodgers reunion from Nam. I refuse to cross the border.
The quick Idaho Ping. This particular deserter is, sadly, from Boise.
North End?
It wouldn’t surprise me, but if I were to pick up the Idaho Statesman tomorrow I’m sure he’ll be lionized.
I thought that was the guy too!
If so, he was shocked & dismayed when he found out the USA didn’t care a thing about him. It ruined his “STATUS”.
At least now he can claim victim hood through Canadian channels! :-)
North End, no doubt.
I’m thinking I need to do one of those “Sen. Church, Cecil Andrus, Larry Craig and now war deserters...Sorry, America. Sincerely yours, the State of Idaho” in the vein of those “we’re sorry” pics from the ‘04 election.
Sorry, America. :(
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