American Deserters Find A Mixed Reception In Canada (good riddance and you are NOT WELCOME BACK)

Washington Post ^ | October 11, 2004 | Doug Struck

[Former Military Chick]

If that is harsh so be it ... I do not want in our Military defending side by side with my beloved. If you do not want to defend your country then do not join, if you join and desert not even Leavenworth is good enough for your kind.

[x1stcav]

I think we should send bounty hunters in and bring these people back and give them a taste of stockade time. There are very few things worse than deserters.

[pabianice]

I... get... it. Someone who cannot accept that it is ever right to kill anyone had applied to RANGER School. Bullshit.

[luvbach1]

Memo to Hinzman: Sometimes medics, and especially cooks, are pressed into combat by necessity.

[w1andsodidwe]

The thing about this war is nobody was drafted. It is not comparable to Viet Nam at all. I would like to know what perks these deserters got. Free college education maybe? That's my guess, they joined for the free education and got it, but are unwilling to hold up their end of the bargain. Should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[sirchtruth]

"No matter how much I wanted to, I could not convince myself that killing someone was ever right,"

So if a terrorist was about to murder your wife and child You would NOT defend them and KILL the terrorist because it would not be right?

Let this POS go, we don't need idiots in the military.

[Billthedrill]

Uh, yeah. What was he expecting, to parachute behind enemy lines with a 70-lb ruck and negotiate 'em to death?

[Taxbilly]

Jeremy Hinzman enlisted in the Army in Boston, did a tour in Afghanistan and prepared for elite Ranger school. Then came orders to go to Iraq.

Hinzman, a slender, studious young man, accepts the criticisms. He replies that his objections to the military evolved after he enlisted. Well before he was ordered to Iraq, he applied for noncombatant duty.

I see you were against the war even before you were for the war?

[BroncosFan]

Did he think he was applying for the TEXAS Rangers?

[Sunshine Sister]

My sentiments exactly!

[mrsmel]

What a maroon-he joined the military BEFORE he "discovered" that he could never kill another human? What if the terrorists were to enact another Beslan in the school where his children are?

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Hinzman, a slender, studious young man, accepts the criticisms. He replies that his objections to the military evolved after he enlisted

If you take the King's shilling, you accept the responsibilities that come with it.

[Former Military Chick]

I am really ticked off about this so I am **PINGING** you to feel my pain! ARG

[VOA]

I think we should send bounty hunters in

Just making them listen exclusively to "Canadian content" radio and TV
should be pain enough.

[MusicZone]

These sniveling little girly-men. Canada can have them!

[Clive]

Old saying oft said to someone bitching about his orders:

"If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have enlisted."

[Mears]

What the hell did these idiots think they were joining,a sleepaway camp group?

All I hear is whining about joining for an education. What did they think the weapons were for,fun?

Morons----we're better off without them.

[shagbark]

Agree. Except for bringing them back. Canada can keep them. Now, if only they would take one traitor off our hands!

[areafiftyone]

Iraq as a medic or cook

Then join McDonalds! Not the military!

[caisson71]

Send the "Dog".