Veterans and War Resisters Enjoy Solidarity Picnic

[struggle4progress]

In a show of support for GIs who are refusing to fight in Iraq, 150 veterans traveled to the U.S.-Canada border on Sunday, Aug. 13, for a “solidarity picnic” with war resisters seeking sanctuary in Canada. Two buses and a caravan of cars ferried members of Veterans For Peace from their national convention in Seattle to Peace Arch Park ...

U.S. war resisters were accompanied by Canadian supporters, including World War II veterans. The War Resisters Support Campaign, with chapters across Canada, co-sponsored the picnic with VFP.

“This is the worse combat situation since Vietnam. War crimes are being committed every single day,” said Kyle Snyder, 22, who was a machine gunner in Iraq. “When I reported the shooting of an innocent civilian, my superiors didn’t even bother to investigate,” continued Snyder, one of 30 U.S. military personnel who have applied for refugee status in Canada.

Colonel Ann Wright (ret.) told Snyder he was doing the right thing. “There is a time honored tradition in the U.S. military to refuse to follow illegal orders or to commit war crimes,” said Col. Wright, who resigned from the U.S. State Department in protest of the Iraq War ...

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/15/18297715.php

[Drum]

1. That's good company.

Bravo to all.

[Breeze54]

2. Thank you for posting this!

:) It warms the cockles of my heart!

[Tom Joad]

3. honor the real heroes. Those that resist. Meet them at this website

http://tomjoad.org/WarHeroes.htm

[Monkeyman]

4. If the wounded I work with could say how they feel without loseing benefit

you list wou;d be out of sight it is forbiden in any VA to protest the war with lose of care and benefits if you do