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Thursday, June 03, 2004

IRAQI DESERTER APPEARS ON 60 MINUTES II 
60 Minutes II last night ran this report on Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the Army soldier convicted of going AWOL and sentenced to one year in jail, a dishonorable discharge, and reduction to E-1:

He went AWOL, he told 60 Minutes II, because he was morally opposed to a war that has killed or wounded nearly 5,000 United States soldiers.

Mejia’s commanding officer and fellow National Guardsmen told us a different story: that he went AWOL because he’s a coward.

Posted by: Centrist / 15:24 (Cosmos) |