Another U.S. war resister has been ordered to leave Canada with his family after living in Toronto for the past four years. Sgt. Patrick Brendan Hart, 34, was informed that he and his family do not qualify under the Pre-Removal Risk Assessment program. The program requires that people will not be deported if it would put them in danger or where they would face the risk of persecution. Their request to stay in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds was also turned down. Hart left the U.S. military before his second deployment in Iraq because he said he believes the military occupation in that country is “illegal and unnecessary.” “When I was deployed in 2003, I was hearing a lot of stories that made me disgusted to be an American soldier,” said Hart.
Canada is doing the right thing. Nowhere in the UCMJ does it give a soldier the right to not go to war because they "don't think it's a legal war". Every soldier has an obligation not only to his country but to the other men and women who serve with him. What should the Army do with these deserters?
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Hang em High. They took an oath, they violated the oath. These days everyone thinks they are a lawyer. Stop being a coward and take the punishment you have earned. It will not be as severe as it should but man up and take it.
I agree, hang em high. I bet he qas alright with taking the benefits, but when it came time to really do the job he trained for he has no spine! SHAME SHAME SHAME on him and anyone else who is a spineless wimp. take when the gettin is good but when you have maybe do a real mans work you run,, spineless spineless better yet stay in Canada we sure don't need any more spineless men in this Country
