Camilo Mejia (IVAW) on Wikileaks - KGNU interview this morning

[kgnu_fan]

This morning, KGNU (my radio station) did a great interview and call-in with Camilo Mejia (Former Chairman of Iraq Veterans Against the War)and he spoke about Dream Act and Wikileaks. If you are interested in hearing about what happened to a young soldier in Iraq, I recommend you to listen to it. The interview was a part of our morning news program called Morning Magazine. The interview itself starts at time stamp 39:00 but if you are interested in finding out what our community radio sounds like, listen other part of it...

Here is the direct archive link.

http://kgnu.org/cgi-bin/play.m3u?show=MorningMagazine&date=2010-12-08

8.35-9.30: Camilo Mejia
On Morning Magazine, Today, Dec 08 at 08:00 AM

Reclaiming Conscience

Camilo Mejia spent nearly nine years in the Army and the Florida National Guard, reaching the rank of staff sergeant and deploying to Iraq as an infantry squad leader in 2003, just before his eight-year commitment was to expire. Despite his years of military experience and his willingness when enlisting to go to war, during his deployments to Iraq, he decided he had serious doubts about the morality of that particular war and that he wanted out. During a two-week home leave, six months into his Iraq tour, Mejia decided not to return to his base because of his grave moral doubts about the war. After five months in hiding, he held a news conference to explain his situation and turned himself in to military authorities. He was court-martialed, convicted of desertion and served nine months in prison.

He joins us this morning to talk about being a conscientious objector in a volunteer army, to talk about the military implications of the DREAM act and also Wikileaks.