Author: CTR

In January 2003, Jimmy was deployed to Iraq. During the initial invasion he was involved in a number of “checkpoint killings,” the kind of atrocities that occur over and over today without fanfare or scandal.

She also made an emotional plea for the feds to follow the example set by Canuck governments of the Vietnam War era and offer refuge to U.S. soldiers currently AWOL from Iraq.

The mother of the Kiwi doctor jailed for refusing to go to war against Iraq says the outcome of his court martial was expected, but “extraordinary in its severity.

His memories from Iraq, while still vivid, don’t provoke the same anxiety, and the suicide note he left in May 2005 is no longer a harrowing threat to his parents.

Thank you for giving me this time today. I would like to preface my comments to Congressional representatives by reading a statement from my husband, Kevin Benderman.

Jashinski, who publicly declared her conscientious objector status at November’s SOA Watch protest in Columbus, received a 120-day confinement.