Fewer and Fewer Latinos Willing to Die in Iraq

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MEXICO CITY - A total of 215 Latino soldiers serving in the U.S. army have already died in Iraq, but according to anti-war activists, this bad news comes with a silver lining: an ever smaller number of young people of Latin American descent are enlisting in the armed forces.

”I'm glad that the army is no longer able to recruit as many soldiers, and that more people are raising their voices against this criminal invasion,” said Camilo Mejía, a Nicaraguan-born former staff sergeant in the U.S. army who refused to return to his unit in Iraq after spending five months stationed there in 2003.

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Last year, 9,477 foreign-born residents of the United States signed up for the U.S. armed forces - 2,352 fewer than in 2003, according to official statistics from the George W. Bush administration.

”There are so many people dying in this senseless, criminal war that going to jail to oppose it or refusing to join the army are not very big sacrifices when you compare them to all the innocent people killed in the war,” Mejía told IPS.

Common Dreams

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1. Ah, Camilo Mejía!

One of my heroes out of all this tragedy.

”Freedom - real freedom, not the one sold by Mr. Bush - obliges us to say that the invasion of Iraq is a colossal deception, and the best thing to do is to get out of there,” Mexican-American activist Fernando Suárez, the founder of Aztec Warrior, told IPS."

I tend to agree..at least we need a Commander-In-Chief who isn't cuckoobanans..to lead with a different strategy(something with heart).

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2. "215 Latino soldiers have already died in Iraq"

:rofl:

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3. p.s. my guess is at least 10 times that figure.

probably more though.