Campaign To Make Canada Safe Haven For US Soldiers
Posted on Friday, April 22 at 10:36 by 4Canada
During America's darkest moments, Canada has provided a sanctuary for young men and women who refuse to fight Washington's wars. It is becoming clear that Canada is once again needed to play that role.
I think the Bush administration cares very little about these soldiers' lives. Ill-prepared and under-equipped, soldiers in Iraq are left to scavenge through garbage for scraps of bullet-proof armour plating to protect their trucks from attacks. When they have finished their tour, the military can arbitrarily extend it for a second and even third tour of duty. This places untold hardship on soldiers, their spouses and their families.
As a result, 6,000 soldiers have deserted the U.S. military.
Desperate for more soldiers, the U.S. government scrambles every day to recruit more young men and women to replace the dead and the maimed. The recruiters are thickest in poor and visible-minority communities, where they promise citizenship, education, glamour or wealth.
The Bush administration is forcing public schools to hand over their lists of students' names and phone numbers to military recruiters. In some cases, high school students have been offered $5,000 to quite literally sign their lives away to military recruiters. Perhaps because of the pressure, or a guilty conscience, 37 recruiters have deserted the military too.
George W. Bush has said he won't bring back the draft. But as some experts have noted, America can either continue with its all-volunteer military or it can bring back the draft and remain a superpower -- but it can't do both. The hawks are calling on Bush to retract his promise.
That's why I and many of my colleagues have issued the appeal that appears below. We hope that you will answer the appeal by visiting ceasefire.ca and sending your letter directly to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, urging him to allow U.S. soldiers to enter Canada if they request permission to do so.
In solidarity,
Tom Hayden
To send a letter to PM Martin:
www.ceasefire.ca
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The Americans can't afford to sit back like Canadians and let the world get screwed over by tyrants in the middle east who are creating terrorists, because these terrorists will attack the US eventually - as in the 9/11 attacks.
Canadians figure if we're nice to terrorists they'll attack someone else - so we support dictators and other murderers because it's nice and easy - and we might get some fat money oil contracts or dam building contracts. What do we care when other people are doing the dying - as long as we make money and the dying is not reported by the media it's fine.
The army deserters are morally bankrupt and unfortunately - so are a lot of Canadians. We don't need more of their ilk here.
Why don`t you go and fight those so called terrorists?
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