Canadians Giving Political Assylum to AWOL U.S. Soldiers?
Another move straight out of the Vietnam playbook…
In this AP article its author, Carolyn Thompson, writes about Canada’s open door policy toward AWOL U.S. soldiers who are referred to as “war resistors”. However, Thompson casually touches on the fact that the Canadian government is denying political asylum to U.S. soldiers seeking it.
A group of American military deserters publicly embraced their new lives in Canada on Saturday with the support of “peace mom” Cindy Sheehan, who said she wished the son she lost in Iraq was among them.
“I begged him not to go to Iraq,” the anti-war activist said through tears at a rally in support of the former soldiers, who wore black T- shirts emblazoned with “AWOL.” “And I wish he was standing up here with these people because he didn’t want to go.”
There’s a hint of sarcasm in the title of this post because I’m certain that not all Canadians support the idea of deserting U.S. troops clamoring [sarcasm again] into the country.