{"id":58471,"date":"2015-02-27T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58471"},"modified":"2015-02-27T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:01:25","slug":"andre-shepherd-needs-to-prove-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58471","title":{"rendered":"Andre Shepherd needs to prove war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> reports that the fellow who we’ve been keeping an eye on<\/a> since he deserted back in 2007, Andre Shepherd, must prove to the European Court of Justice that there war crimes committed in Iraq which provoked him to desert from his Army job and his upcoming second deployment as a depot helicopter mechanic. <\/p>\n

That will probably be difficult for Shepherd since his work mates told us that they put him in charge of the dayroom, or whatever they call them these days. It seems that he was so incompetent, that even his POG buddies didn’t want him working at his POG job and they put him in charge of the fussball table in their recreation room during his first deployment.<\/p>\n

Shepherd, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 as an Apache helicopter mechanic in the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, deserted in 2007 after being ordered to return to Iraq. He applied for asylum in Germany, where he was based. He remains in Germany.<\/p>\n

“When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing,” Shepherd told a news conference in Frankfurt in 2008.<\/p>\n

“I could not in good conscience continue to serve,” the army specialist from Cleveland, Ohio, said.<\/p>\n

Shepherd believed he should no longer participate in a war he considered unlawful and in war crimes he believed were committed in Iraq. He said he risked criminal prosecution in the United States because of his desertion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, he will be prosecuted when he returns, but mostly because he broke the law. Shepherd tried to convince the German courts that he could be executed for deserting the military even though no one has been executed for desertion since 1945. He didn’t want to deploy because he was afraid that Jody would take his fraulein away while he was in Iraq. It had nothing to do with his conscience or the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

Shepherd was a pot-smoking derelict living in his car before he joined the Army, so prison life will be an improvement for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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