The deserter

Kentuckian doesn't regret walking away from war

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
By Larry Muhammad | The Courier -Journal | lmuhammad@courier-journal.com

In March 2004, the Army had 318,533 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. That same year, it also had a smaller number on its books: 2,479 deserters.

Joshua Despain was one of them.

Despain, a Kentucky native, is home now, tending bar in Campbellsville and living in the aftermath of his biggest decision.

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"A guy I knew got killed, a squad leader out of Fort Bragg. We were deployed together, and pretty much the thought running through my head when I went AWOL was: 'What would he do if he had the chance to do it over again?' "

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That's all, he used bush's way of doing things. Why get killed for a wrongful war?

That is hysterical!

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war. Good for him.

Not claim more lands in the name of King George.

>> "...if an employee said screw it if he didn't like where the company's direction
>> was heading?"

He'd probably initiate stop-loss programs and force all the other employees to work two years longer than they wanted to.

Good for him.

QUOTE: "AWOL (absent without leave) and desertion are crimes that go against Army values and degrade unit readiness. They are self-centered acts that not only affect the soldier but put other soldiers' lives at risk."

Seems to me, starting a war of aggression to boost corporate profits kinda meets those criteria too...

do fit the criteria very well, I agree. My 20-year career army soldier hubby agrees, too.

This administration is dismantling the constitution.

If the soldiers fighting this "war" don't believe in it enough to stay then shouldn't that tell us something.

n/t

:patriot:

Here's to you, soldier. I hope you serve as an example to others, because if no one fights, then no one else has to die for this horrible war.

telling the truth to the morons in Limpballs' US.

Even if they did, they'd probably put him on with 3 assholes telling him he hates America :eyes:

It's better to be back home tending bar than to risk your life for an illegal war that serves no one but the global elite.

Actually I worded it that way because I need a beer and I like to think of myself as a funny guy although I am the cause of the majority of groaners here in mid-michigan.
ANyway,

I just may have found an excuse to visit Kentucky. I'd love to shake that man's hand!


:)

individuals who were brave enough to endure a first tour of duty in Iraq, but say, "no way," when it comes to a second or third tour in that living Hell. It is incredibly unfair that the same men and women are forced to go over there time and time again when even in Vietnam you could only be forced into one tour. Where are all the Young Republicans to fill the ranks to make sure these people don't have to spend half their lifetimes in Iraq?