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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on November 28, 2008, 11:39:22 AM
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier who deserted his unit to avoid returning to Iraq has applied for asylum in Germany, saying the Iraq war was illegal and that he could not support the "heinous acts" taking place.
Andre Shepherd, 31, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 as an Apache helicopter mechanic in the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, has been living in Germany since deserting last year.
"When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing," Shepherd told a Frankfurt news conference Thursday.
"I could not in good conscience continue to serve."
Shepherd, originally from Cleveland, Ohio and ranked as an army specialist, applied for asylum in Germany Wednesday, said Tim Huber from the Military Counseling Network, a non-military group which is assisting him. ...
link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081127/us_nm/us_germany_asylum_usa)
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Idiot. If I remember correctly the SOFA agreement won't allow this to happen.
He'll be back here and hopefully in Leavenworth very shortly.
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I would expect this from an 18-20 year old kid. That jack off is 31. No tears for desering in a time of war especailly fter 6 years of it. That bastard needs to spend 20 to 30 years in Leavenworth.
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I would expect this from an 18-20 year old kid. That jack off is 31. No tears for desering in a time of war especailly fter 6 years of it. That bastard needs to spend 20 to 30 years in Leavenworth.
The idiot would be turning wrenches at Balad or Talil and unless he chose to...wouldn't have to go outside the wire.
This isn't "conscience"..this is freaking political grandstanding. :bird:
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What a ****ing coward... I've been chomping at the bit to get to Iraq for years now and they won't let me go.
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The idiot would be turning wrenches at Balad or Talil and unless he chose to...wouldn't have to go outside the wire.
This isn't "conscience"..this is freaking political grandstanding. :bird:
Shepherd, who enlisted in January 2004, [quote/]
The :censored: buttwipe joined after the war in Iraq started. I think he was biding his time to do this.
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If you join the military AFTER 9/11 and don't think you'll go to either Iraq or AFghanistan...you've got to be the BIGGEST moron ever creatd on God's green earth!
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With my son enlisted in the AR after the current Iraqi war started. He enlisted primarily for the education benefits.
We had a long talk about it before he signed up.
I told him I did not want to hear any bitching if he came down on orders to go to Iraq or Afghanistan.
He volunteered to go to Iraq as soon as he found up out another reserve unit in the same RSC was getting ready to ship out. He has been in Iraq for a little over 2 months now.
I couldn't be prouder of him.
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Look for this assclown to be running for political office in 10 years, if there's still an America then.
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I know that the POS won't ever read this but, this soldier is more man than you, asswipe. :bird:
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