The Price Of Desertion

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An Army soldier accused of deserting his unit in Iraq went on trial late last month.

Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia was court-martialed on charges he abandoned his unit in the middle of the war in one of the most dangerous parts of Iraq.

CBS News Correspondent Dan Rather of 60 Minutes II first met Mejia earlier this year when he was still AWOL -- absent without official leave.

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.

Here is the story of how a military tribunal dealt with Mejia after his decision, as he told us in March, to go AWOL.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/02/60II/main620738.shtml

With the evidence I have I wouldn't fight or kill in Iraq either. It's a different story if a army is attacking our country. It has been proven that 95% of what Bush and his Adm. said were all lies. Changing intelligence reports. Cheating of military contracts. Enron cover-up. Bush was aWol during a real war too! Mejia has enough evidence to convict the entire Bush Crime Family for murder!