Canada To Deport U.S. Army Deserter [View All]

Source: The Canadian Press

Ottawa has decided that an American soldier who fled the army over the Iraq war will not face the risk of abuse or mistreatment if returned to the U.S.

That means Corey Glass can now be deported to the United States, where he faces possible jail time for desertion.


Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/428269

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This is a shameful day for Canada.

Corey Glass, 25: "What I saw in Iraq convinced me that the war is illegal and immoral. I could not in good conscience continue to take part in it. I came here because Canada did not join the Iraq War. Also, I knew Canada had welcomed many Americans during the Vietnam War."

Lee Zaslofsky, coordinator of the War Resisters Support Campaign and a Vietnam War resister:
"Corey Glass would be the first Iraq War resister to be deported from Canada. He would face imprisonment and severe penalties in the US. This goes against Canada’s tradition of welcoming Americans who disagree with policies like slavery and the Vietnam War."

Alexandre Trudeau, son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and director of the documentary film Embedded In Baghdad:
"We must not forget that the invasion of Iraq was a war justified only by lies, greed and stupidity for which permission was not sought nor granted to the Bush administration by the United Nations. This outlaw war has ravaged the Iraqi landscape, destroyed tens of thousands of lives and sorely sapped the American treasury all while filling the coffers of profiteers."

There may be as many as 25,000 US war resisters, either in military jails, living underground, or now living outside the US.