And a short clip...

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Some guy who deserted from the Army wants to get refugee status in Canada.

He joined up, of course, for education benefits.

I don't think he'll be successful. It's not like we're under a draft. He voluntarily chose to go into the Army, and it's his own bad luck that there happened to be a chance that he could get killed that way.

Edit: Link's not working. Should be http://premium.cnn.com/pr/video/meta/us/2004/12/11/ but it's not working a'tall. Sorry. You can find the link at CNN, anyway.

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If it's the guy I think it is he has been on canadian news off and on for awhile now. He's been also doing public speaking. Supposedly he has moral issue with the war and views it as an illegal war.

Now if there was a draft I can see it. I mean we had people coming up here before from vietnam draft. But people weren't drafted. Weather he likes the war or not he's been ordered. Unless he's specifically ordered to comit something that would go as war crime I'm not sure what the legality is of him making such claim to stay out. Military does alot during the war. While we mostly hear of them blowing up eachother fact is they do alot of rebuilding and behind the scenese work. This dude though I believe was to be a driver. So he had some chance of getting blown up as he was to drive superiors around. But its not exactly the toughest or most dangerous military job.

I have mixed feeligns on his claim. I may not like the reasons for the war(and that has nothing to do with weather or not Hussain needed tossed out) and I may dislike some happenings of it(think prison pics that were the buzz in the media). But I don't think this guy is trying to get out necisarily for the same reasons others have tried to escape duty. I think they may well send him back to the US. It doesn't quite have same war torn type claim rights as 3rd world nations do for one. Quality of life is reasonable for another.