Accept U.S. war deserters, 'Peace Mom' pleads

[Spazito]

American anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wants the Canadian government to grant sanctuary to U.S. military deserters.

"I'm just here begging the people of Canada to force your government, because your government works for you … because your government does not work for war profiteers, to allow our soldiers to have sanctuary up here," she said.

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Sheehan asked the federal government at a news conference in Ottawa Thursday to create a provision allowing military deserters to flee to Canada so they don't need to apply for refugee status on an individual basis.

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About 150 deserters are known to be living in Canada, according to the War Resisters Support Campaign, though the organization believes the number could be as high as 1,500.

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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/04/sheehan-deserters060504.html

(I agree, we should have a provision allowing this)

[marmar]

1. If there's an attack on Iran, I'm going to be an America deserter...

:cry:

[Tom Joad]

2. Those who refuse to serve in this illegal war deserve our full respect.

http://tomjoad.org/WarHeroes.htm

See the growing list of heroes at the link above. I am going to be updating this in the next few days.

Military Resisters stopped the Vietnam war, they can bring an end to this one.

http://tomjoad.org/sirnosir.htm
See the movie: Sir, No Sir!

[Voltaire99]

5. Agreed 100%. (nt)

[pocket]

3. Canada is still killing people in Afghanistan

I know Cindy doesn't support that quagmire.

[Spazito]

4. We need to pull out of there, no question about it

Let the bush admin finish what they started and then abandoned. I had no problem when Canadians were there under the UN for peacekeeping, I DO NOT support the change to a combat mission and many Canadians are feeling as I do, the feeling grows as each Canadian soldier comes home in a 'body bag' because of a dispicable government decision to change the mission mid-stream.

Edited to clarify.