At War: War and Conscience: Expanding the Definition of Conscientious Objection

A coalition of around 60 mostly left-leaning religious, veterans and anti-war groups are calling on Congress to expand the definition of conscientious objection to allow opposition to a particular war. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 10, 2010 - 5:55 AM PST
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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 10, 2010

If the large fraction of the population who saw that bush and his fellow war criminals were lying us into an illegal immoral war of choice in Iraq; if they had been able to refuse deployment to that war crime would we be in this quagmire with over a million dead and more millions of exiles and at least ten times that number suffering from traumatic stress syndrome? When the conscience-in-chief likes to blow up frogs, we are all in trouble.

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