A US Army Deserter's Tale

Read this book on the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq, after being posted there for 7 months. During his 2-week leave back in the US, he went AWOL (absence without leave) and became a fugitive in his own country, until several months later, he managed to escape to Canada where he is now awaiting court order for a full asylum.

In his military training, prioties are set as Army First, God Second and Family Third (unlike Tiger Woods' Family First, Golf Second???). One of the army's chants is this: " One shot, One kill, One Arab, One Asian".
The Iraqi and Muslims are not considered as civilians or people... they are snad niggers, ragheads, habbis, hajjis and terrorists.

According to Joshua Key,US Army Private First Class, the indiscrimatory house raids of the Iraqi homes with C4 and the men, women and children being hit and zipcuffed and killed (and severed heads being kicked around too) by frustrated US soldiers, have made the US army a terrorist group in Iraq.

Other published stories about the US Army atrocities and tortures employed in Abu Ghraib detention centre and Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba, testify to this on-the ground account of terrorist acts by a great military power in the world. No wonder the Muslims hate the USA and want to kill their citizens at any opportunity!! If the Commander in Chief is from Slovia or Slovenia, he will be brought to the International court for trial as a war criminal.... but Bush is from the United State of America.....this is an economic power which currently determines the world order!!

This is a story about a family man and a patriot in his mid-20s, who joined the Army believing unquestionably in his government's commitment to integrity and justice. But what he experienced and saw in his 7-month duties in various places in Iraq in 2003, he was transformed into someone who could no longer serve his country.

Learnt two Iraqi phrases from this book which are often used by the American soldiers away from the comfort of their homes and military camps back home....
"Sofeeni deeaytcha" and "Sofeeni goose goose".

President Obama, the Nobel Prize for Peace winner 2009, is sending in more troops into Afghanistan to undo all the wrongs initiated by the Bush Adminstration. Is he really?