House of Commons votes to let U.S. War Resisters stay in Canada

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../03/c7865.html
Now I know many of you will say. They signed up, they knew they had to an obligation to their contract.
But I think many of these people were kids fresh out of high school and they do live in a country that in indoctrinated with military propaganda and many got caught up in Bush misleading the public about the Iraq-Al Qaeda. connections.

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All wars represent a failure of diplomacy

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I can guarantee this won't be implimented. Harper, leader of the Conservatives, supported the Iraq war. In his mind, this is a joke, and hes probably going to instruct the RCMP to remove these illegals.

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if we're not going to hang them,
id rather have them in Canada than in the US.
so if Canada wants them,
they can definitely keep them.
give them Canadian citizenship,
and their 'freedom' to cross the border should be denied.

in my humble American opinion,
of course.

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How is this good news? While I am content to see anything that throws a spanner into the US war plans (at least the foolish Iraq ones), I can't help but think that allowing war resisters stay here in defiance of a contract they signed and American law is a bad thing. Had these guys been conscripted into the army, then I could see a case, but they chose to enter the army. Not withstanding the jingoistic military propaganda in the US and A, it's wrong to expect a foreign country to shelter someone from their own mistakes. It kind of makes a mockery of real refugees.

keep them they are nothing but Moose (*)(*)(*)(*) anyway

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Just what canada needs, more people that won't defend them. I mean canada needs the US to keep them safe anyway. you have what? 3 people in your military.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Oh. When I opened the thread, I was hoping it was about this --

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It's cold up there

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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

Without going into my thoughts on the Iraq war, I'll say that if implemented, that would be cheating America in the worst possible way. If war isn't your thing, don't join the military for christ's sake.