Soldier gets seven months for desertion while on leave from Iraq

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Soldier gets seven months for desertion while on leave from Iraq
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, May 14, 2008

VILSECK, Germany – A 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment soldier who deserted while on midtour leave from Iraq will spend the next seven months in confinement.

At a court-martial Tuesday in Vilseck, Pfc. Robert J. Weis pleaded guilty to desertion and missing movement.

In an unsworn statement, Weis, 20, told the court he joined the Army motivated by a desire to protect America from Islamic extremists. However, soon after he joined, his sister’s fiance was killed in a fight at a party, he said.

"I decided to make myself a better person so I didn’t wind up in hell," he said. "I started reading the Bible. Everything I read told me not to kill people. There are better ways to solve problems than fighting."

The young soldier applied for a discharge as a conscientious objector but deployed to Iraq in July last year before the matter was settled, he said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54776

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1. This war ,unfortunately ,is not about extreme Islamists. It is about

extreme greed. I don't know that this soldier has any rights. Are thhey not shipping out anyone and everyone?