American soldier exposes US policy in Iraq

Friday, 25 April 2008

After 7 months in Iraq, Darrell Anderson, 22, decided that he wasn’t to risk going back to Iraq to kill or be killed. He fled to Canada, a deserter. While there, though, he felt he wasn’t doing enough to expose and stop the war and returned to U.S. and, possibly, a long prison sentence. Perhaps to undermine the legal case of other deserters in Canada, the U.S. military imprisoned Anderson only a few days, releasing him with a ‘less than honorable’ discharge. Given Anderson’s heroic determination to organize and help GI and other war resisters, the U.S. military may come to believe they’ve made a mistake. Anderson describes the escalation of violence against unarmed civilians: “In April, they told us, ‘In a crowded area, if one person shoots at you, kill everybody.’” Read More

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