Bush can go AWOL, Mejia gets in trouble CBS news on Mejia, 60 minutes

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Until October, 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, who's with the Florida National Guard, was stationed in Ramadi - one of Iraq's most dangerous areas. Despite his commanding officer's suspicions that the bloodshed was taking a heavy toll on Mejia, he was allowed to take a short leave to work out the problems he was having renewing his green card. (Like almost 40,000 other soldiers who have spent time fighting in Iraq, Mejia is a legal alien.)

It was during that leave that Mejia tells Rather he first began thinking of going AWOL. "When you look at the war and you look at the reasons that took us to war and you don't find that any of the things that we were told that we're going to war for turned out to be true," says Mejia, "When you don't find there are weapons of mass destruction and when you don't find that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda and you see that you're not helping the people and the people don't want you there and, to me, there's no military contract and no military duty that's going to justify being a part of that war."







http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/29/60II/main609216.shtml

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2. Soldiers deserve truth

This is about respect for these people who put their lives on the line. They were lied to and so were we. Bush and his gang of crimminals manufactured this lie.

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