$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n Thursday, Sergeant Ricky Clousing, a born-again Christian who had gone AWOL after serving in Iraq and seeing how the Iraqi people were treated, was sentenced to 11 months confinement in a courts-martial hearing in Fort Bragg, NC. An article in the New York Times described what made Clousing decide it was completely immoral to keep fighting in Iraq:
He said he saw American soldiers shoot and kill an unarmed Iraqi teenager, and rode in an Army Humvee that sideswiped Iraqi cars and shot an old man’s sheep for fun — both incidents Sergeant Clousing reported to superiors. He said his work as an interrogator led him to conclude that the occupation was creating a cycle of anti-American resentment and violence. After months of soul-searching on his return to Fort Bragg, Sergeant Clousing, 24, failed to report for duty one day...




