FORT CARSON - A soldier who fled to Canada after learning he would soon deploy to Iraq has pleaded guilty and been sentenced.
Friday afternoon, a judge ruled PFC Robin Long, 24, will have his rank reduced to E-1 (Private), serve 15 months in confinement (minus 40 days he’s already served) and receive a dishonorable discharge [...]
By Christopher Arendt, 24, Student
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I liked working night shifts, because whenever they were awake, I wanted to apologize to them. When they were sleeping, I didn’t have to worry about that. I could just walk up and down the blocks all night long.
There was usually one detainee who would lead the [...]
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON: A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
“The time has come to move these forward,” Judge Thomas F. Hogan [...]
U.S. Army Sergeant Matthis Chiroux
Matthis Chiroux was supposed to redeploy June 15 but says he won’t participate in what he calls an ‘illegal war.’
Like a lot of young people, Matthis Chiroux thought the Army was his best option after finishing high school. An admitted lackluster C student in search of some discipline, Chiroux joined the [...]
Late last month, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General issued a positive report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq.I applaud the OIG’s recognition of a handful of career Justice attorneys and FBI officials who challenged abusive interrogation techniques - and warned correctly that torture would [...]
To my precious supporters,
I am left with few words to express my gratitude for your many heartfelt messages of unity which have given me hope for a nation and a people that was all but lost in my once bitter heart.
I have drawn so much strength this past week from the thousands of you who’ve [...]
U.S. military deserters are costing taxpayers a lot of money, according to military officials.
The Army Public Affairs office reported that it costs an average of $50,000 to $64,000 to train a soldier from the recruiting station to first unit station. Between 2002 and 2007, there were at least 2,400 soldiers each year who deserted [...]
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/85725/
“I was ordered multiple times by commissioned officers and noncommissioned officers to shoot unarmed civilians if their presence made me feel uncomfortable,” Sgt. Jason Lemieux told a panel of lawmakers last Thursday in a packed public hearing on Capitol Hill. “These orders were given with the understanding that my immediate chain of [...]
Even if the US-led invasion had brought stability and reconstruction quickly to Iraq, the war would still have been illegal because Bush acted without the approval and backing of the international community and on the basis of deliberate lies. Now Washington is bogged down trying to clear up the bloody chaos that it itself created.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) ? Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
“I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the now 24-year-old told AFP.
“I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,” or around 16 years old, [...]
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