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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nOne of TSO’s first posts here was about Joshua Key<\/a> who slipped away from the Army and absconded to Canada where he wrote a completely inaccurate tome about his time in the Army and his service in Iraq. Well, here we are six years later and Key is still cowering in a corner of a Canadian taxpayer-funded apartment. But, Canada is contemplating ending his little adventure according to a link sent by Thomas to The Star<\/a>;<\/p>\n Eight applications from war resisters to stay in Canada as permanent residents, on humanitarian and compassionate grounds as well as spousal sponsorships, were denied. Four war resisters have received removal orders, including one last month.<\/p>\n Key, who was born in Oklahoma, served as a combat engineer in Iraq in 2003. He deserted the army while on a two-week furlough and fled to Canada in 2005, when he applied for refugee status. His request was denied in 2006, but a federal court judge ordered the refugee board to review his bid for asylum. In 2010, he was rejected again and applied for spousal sponsorship with his Canadian wife.<\/p>\n The negative decisions have renewed fears that Key\u2019s spousal sponsorship application could be turned down any day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Key’s American wife left him back in 2009 and returned to the US leaving Joshua behind – so I guess he’s taken a stank-ass hippie Canadian wife to solidify his refugee request. The Star article quotes some of Key’s fantasies in their article about his service in Iraq – like the one about US soldiers play soccer with an Iraqi man’s severed head.<\/p>\n Canada has sent some deserters back to the US – each returning to a year in military confinement. Conservative Canadians want to send them all sent back;<\/p>\n \u201cMilitary deserters from the United States are not genuine refugees under the internationally-accepted meaning of the term,\u201d said R\u00e9mi Larivi\u00e8re, a spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada. \u201cThese unfounded claims clog up our system for genuine refugees who are actually fleeing persecution,\u201d he wrote in an email.<\/p>\n Desertion in Canada is punishable by up to life in prison.<\/p>\n To date, no refugee claims made by U.S. military deserters have been accepted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m pretty sure that Key will be a burden to any national system of welfare. If Canada doesn’t want him, they should send him to live in Iraq, preferably in the area that the Islamic State occupies. In fact, they can send the whole bunch of them to Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"