Soldiers Against Iraq Desert To Canada

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Taking A Cue From Predecessors In Vietnam Era, Some Disillusioned Flee

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/24/sunday/main2395893.shtml

TORONTO, Jan. 25, 2007

"I believe the law says you need not participate in an illegal war. And so that's the circumstance we’re asserting."

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(CBS) During the Vietnam war, many young men who were drafted and didn't want to go to war fled to Canada. Today, a small group of soldiers and Marines are doing the same thing in protest of a war they say is unjust.

When you contemplate the danger and the violent death that are ever present factors in Iraq, you may wonder how Americans charged with fighting the war there can bear it.

The reality is that some of them can't take it. Justin Colby, 23 was inspired to join the Army to avenge the events of September 11.

"I thought that was something I wanted to do," he told Sunday Morning correspondent Rita Braver. "So I approached a recruiter and said, 'Sign me up.'"...

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1. fighting for truth and the American way?

"A lot of guys whose skin was melted off," he said. "A lot of guys who you couldn't recognize literally from their face to their feet. Missing arms, missing legs, couldn't breathe on their own, couldn't feed themselves. These kids, literally kids — 17, 18, 19, 20. And this look in their eyes that — Oh, I’m never gonna forget it. The look in their eyes when they finally come to understand that they're never gonna walk again. They're never gonna hold their wife and their children again. And having them ask me, 'Why?' Ya know — a 'big-picture why.' And I couldn't tell them."