Thursday, December 9, 2004

Iraq war's deserters

The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started in Iraq.

60 Minutes Wednesday found several of these deserters who left the Army or Marine Corps rather than go to Iraq. Like a generation of deserters before them, they fled to Canada.

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"I didn’t want, you know, 'Died deluded in Iraq' over my gravestone," says [Marine] Felushko.

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Felushko’s father is Canadian, so he has dual citizenship, and he can legally stay in Canada. But it’s not that easy for other American deserters.

  CBS article

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