They Shoot Cowards, Don't They?

Jeremy Hinzman, ex-Army paratrooper and current deserter and traitor, discovers that not even the Canadians want cowards for countrymen:

He fled from Fort Bragg, N.C., in January 2004, weeks before his 82nd Airborne Division was due to go to Iraq. He had served three years in the Army, but had applied for conscientious objector status before his unit was sent to Afghanistan in 2002.

Hinzman argued before the board in December that he would have had to take part in war crimes if he went to Iraq, saying the war there is illegal. He said he would be persecuted if forced to return to the United States.

Hinzman also testified he had been willing to fulfill his full four-year obligation to the Army, but not to participate in combat.

"I find Mr. Hinzman's position to be inherently contradictory," Goodman said in the ruling. "Surely an intelligent young man like Mr. Hinzman, who believes the war in Iraq to be illegal, unjust and waged for economic reasons, would be unwilling to participate in any capacity, whether as combatant or noncombatant."

So this clown wants Army pay, Army benefits, and Army training---he just doesn't want to fight for America.

There's an old, old military saying which goes something like, "You take the King's coin, you enter the King's service."

One would hope Hinzman is provided a proper reception by a properly-constituted firing squad upon his return to the homeland he betrayed, but I somehow doubt we have the steel to execute deserters the way we execute, say, disabled women.