On 8/29/06, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One of the teach-ins I attended at Camp Casey was conducted by a
>> Veterans for Peace activist who assists American soldiers when they
>> refuse to go to Iraq and go to Canada instead. According to him there
>> are presently 311 American soldiers in exile in Canada. (You won't
>> find it in the media reports.)
>
> That's a far larger number of deserters than has been reported in any
> media
Jose Vasquez of Iraq Vets Against the War said on my radio show that
there are about 8,000 AWOL <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
Radio.html#060420>.
That's also good to hear, but at the current rates of AWOL, desertion,
recruitment, and retention, how long will it take for them to destroy
the ability to deploy troops in Iraq?
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Yoshie
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