By Sam Taylor Bellingham Herald
Cliff Cornell fled the U.S. Army four years ago for British Columbia when his Georgia artillery unit was ordered to serve in Iraq war.
On Wednesday, Cornell was deported from Canada, arrested in the U.S. and booked into the Whatcom County jail.
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This is not what Peacenik wants to read on a nice sunny Friday, or any day. A minority, unpopular, Canadian government is deporting U.S. army deserters back to the U.S. Peacenik can only assume Ignatieff and the Liberal Party support this action, or they just can't be bothered to raise a finger or word in protest. Are Canadians and Canadian politicans so afraid to appear anti-war, for fear of being labelled anti-military, that they allow this to happen? It didn't take long to turn Canadian society from a society that was proud of its peace keeping tradition into a society that seems proud of its war making ability. A change that Peacenik thinks Canadians will soon regret.
