Author: CTR

This article is about the difficult moral and legal circumstances that United States soldiers find themselves in during the occupation of Iraq.

Capt. Brian Peterson said his investigation was prompted by media reports in which Jeremy Crawford said he was lied to by a recruiter who allegedly told him that the Army would supply him with medication for anxiety and depression.

Iraq. For those of us steeped in fighting our government’s occupation of Iraq, the list of descriptors for the war roll off our tongue in our debates on subways and in supermarket lines.

Monday morning, he plans to board a Greyhound bus bound for Oklahoma City. Next, he will make his way to nearby Fort Sill, an Army outprocessing center, to turn himself in.

The Army Conscientious Objector Review Board approved his C.O. request April 26, according to his lawyer, Deborah Karpatkin, who handled the case for the New York Civil Liberties Union.

She was in tears, said Camilo Mejia, treasurer of Iraq Veterans Against the War, who attended Jashinski’s Tuesday trial. The entire mood of the courtroom changed.