Stop Loss Journalist Soldier Refuses Iraq Deployment

IPS has an account of a stop-loss soldier who served as an Army journalist and will face prosecution for refusing to go to Iraq because of the horrors that has already had to endure in that position. An absolute must read.

'As an Army journalist whose job it was to collect and filter service members' stories, I heard many stomach-churning testimonies of the horrors of the crimes taking place in Iraq,' said Sergeant Matthis Chiroux, 24, in an announcement under the rotunda of the House of Representative's Cannon Office Building.

'For fear of retaliation from the military, I failed to report these crimes, but never again will I allow fear to silence me. Never again will I fail to stand,' he said.
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'I became borderline suicidal,' he said. 'I just went into my room and shut the door and barely emerged for close to a month. I just sat in my room reading news about Iraq and feeling completely hopeless, like I would be forced to go and no one would ever know how I felt. I was getting looped into participating in a crime against humanity and all with the realisation that I never wanted to be there in the first place.'

OneWorld has more on the Congressional Progressive Caucus hearing.

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