Posted on 01/07/2009 7:35:28 PM PST by traumer
Canada has ordered the deportation of the first woman US soldier to have sought asylum in the country to avoid being deployed to Iraq.
Kimberly Rivera, a mother of three, had requested permission to remain in Canada on humanitarian grounds but her appeal was rejected.
She could face up to five years in prison when she returns to the US.
Some 200 deserters from the US military are believed to have fled to Canada, some living incognito.
Mrs Rivera served in Iraq in 2006 but deserted a year later after refusing to be redeployed.
The War Resisters Supporters Campaign, who are backing Mrs Rivera, said her experience in Iraq was "a huge awakening" which convinced her that "the war was immoral and that she could not participate in it".
Mrs Rivera and her family have been told they must leave Canada by the end of January unless the court order is reversed.
Last year, the Canadian parliament passed a non-binding motion granting asylum to deserters from the Iraq war.
But correspondents say the governing Conservatives opposed the motion, not willing to risk upsetting Washington over the issue.
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hang her
My suggestion is she pack light. Leavenworth gets hotter than all get out in the summer.
You want to have the US Government train you, feed you, and house you and then *HORRORS OF HORRORS* you may need to fulfill the directives of the CIC.
I think Canada has finally got it right — thanks guys.
Deserters should be executed, but that hasn’t happened in many years.
Gee, it’s so sad to see a poor draftee handled like this.
What? She volunteered? She wasn’t drafted?
Revoke her US Citizenship and let Canada keep her.
Her freely given oath obviously meant nothing to her.
If Ms. Riveria had the strength of her convictions, she would’ve done the honorable thing and jointed the Taliban.
publicly.... charge admission. No sarcasm intended or implied.
I guess this means any book and “made for TV movie” deals are probably gone too. LOL!
WOW Canada is getting assertive !
Memories-of-Pres. Jimmy Carter’s open-arms policy for draft dodgers
(and deserters?)...
BUMP
OK, then why flee to Canada?
Why not stand up and face the consequences?
I am reminded of Muhammed Ali, he felt the same why, but at least he stayed in the USA and faced the repercussions of his actions.
Agree with him or not, he stood his ground and he accepted the consequnce of his actions.
That would’ve been a better option. Then our soldiers wouldn’t feel guilty about shooting the traitorous bitch.
But Canada doesn't want her, either. Perhaps Iran would take her?
Knowing this, who would trust her in the future?
Marriage vows are similar in their absolute nature
Love, Honor, and Cherish
Keeping us only unto Each Other
Til Death do Us Part...
...Revoke her citizenship and be gone with her...
I meant making Canada keep her as a punishment to her, not Canada! It is good to see Canada not letting these deserters hide out from justice. I suspect 99% of them fled because serving a year tour in Iraq sucks and is inconvenient rather than any moral objections.
Until they expected her to honor her side of the contract. Just like any other socialist, she wanted to be "taken care of" with no cost to herself.
I expel a deserter every morning.
You can’t “conscientiously object” in a volunteer army. I have a Seventh-Day Adventist friend who had joined the Coast Guard and had an epiphany about 1 1/2 yrs into her service and they discharged her with a General Discharge, IIRC. But that was pre-9/11, IIRC.
Personal experience? ;-)....
However, this just really really pisses me off. No one forced her to join. And it's funny how all of a sudden the war became immoral when it conflicted with her life priorities.
If she honestly had a sudden change of heart on the war, she should of stood and faced her licks and present her case. Worse case scenario she does some time in the brig and a dishonorable discharge. It's not like the Military was going to put a hood over her head shove her on a plane with a parachute and a rifle and kick her out somewhere over Iraq or Afghanistan.
But no like a coward she fled to Canada hoping they would take pity on her and grant her asylum and then she could live off of their welfare state without ever being asked to do a damn thing.
What kind of example does this set for her kids? That the way out of a problem is cowardice and theft (which is what she committed by violating her service agreement)?
This might be harsh but they would have been better off with a dead hero of a mother who fought and died in the service of her Country then a coward of a mother who turned her back on her obligation to her country and instead of facing her lumps fled like a baby and now will subject her kids to a media circus and a long and painful trial.
No one forced her to join the Military. If she wanted a job with sweet benies there was always the postal service.
did she have all that extra ‘insulation’ before she went possum?
they must be hungry!
“hang her”
And the rest of the spineless cowards who ran.
She is so full of sh*t with her tall tale story.
I honestly feel very sorry for her children. She’ll raise them to be just as useless as she is.
That’s the real tragedy here.
That's not very friendly. Where's a lefty to go these days?
I don’t know why she went through the trouble of running to Canada. All she had to do was start getting in trouble and get administratively seperated. Or-—claim PTSD and get some psych to label her non-deployable. There’s no need to run anymore.
Kind of. I live near by the fort. The federal penitentiary isn't known as the Hot House for nothing.
I cannot understand this behavior when we have an all volunteer armed forces.
Don’t want to go to Iraq, don’t enlist. Seems simple to me.
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