VANCOUVER — U.S. army deserter Robin Long is slated to be deported back to his army base in Fort Knox, Ky., Tuesday, which would make him the first resister to the U.S. war effort in Iraq to be sent out of Canada.
Madam Justice Anne Mactavish of the Federal Court of Canada cleared the way for the deportation late Monday, dismissing a last-ditch attempt to delay the process while the 25-year-old pursued further appeals.
“I was just shocked at some things in [the] ruling,” Bob Ages, a spokesman for an informal group called Vancouver War Resisters Support Campaign, told reporters outside the courtroom. “It just flies in the face of everything that we and every Canadian know about the reality of what is going on.”
When he heads back to Fort Knox, he stands to get court marshaled. I hope they throw the book at him. Canada has been coddling these hippies for too long. It may be a different situation if we were in the sixties and their was a mandatory draft. That is not the case here, this punk enlisted in the military knowing full well what he was doing. He turned his back on his brothers and his country when he fled to Canada.
“American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.”
The Times of London reports this morning, “Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda.” How soon will MSNBC, CNN, ABC report this wonderful news? We’ll shall see…
Fighting for our freedom - Thank you and happy Independence Day!
“You and your comrades here have been described as America’s new greatest generation, and, in my view, you have more than earned that description. It is the greatest of honors to soldier here with you.” - General Petraeus
Idiots on the left like Keith Olbermann were in heaven last week at the release of a report from the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence. Chaired by Senator John Rockefeller, the report examines that Bush Administration and the Intelligence that lead us into the war in Iraq. Olbermann sarcastically said he owed the President was owed an apology because he had said the President lied one thousand times, when really it was just over 900 times.
The truth however is a very different thing. The report never once accuses any one of lying. As the Washington Post points out today, it in fact says the opposite! Fred Hiatt points out that President Bush statements were substantiated by intelligence community. The article points out:
On Iraq’s nuclear weapons program? The president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”
On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president’s statements “were substantiated by intelligence information.”
On chemical weapons, then? “Substantiated by intelligence information.”
On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.” Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? “Generally substantiated by available intelligence.” Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.”
Brothers say goodbye before one leaves for service…
A few months later, the brother says goodbye for the final time…
Thank you to all the men and women who have scarified their lives in defense of our country. And thank you to their families, your loss will never be forgotten. We cry with you on this memorial day.
