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Originally Posted by dirtyp
Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
“I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school,” the now 24-year-old told AFP.
“I was ‘filet mignon’ for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade,” or around 16 years old, he added.
Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant.
He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq.
On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war.
“I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,” Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.
US soldier refuses to serve in ‘illegal Iraq war’ | War On You |
Matthis Chiroux is one of a new generation of Southern White men, who has come to understand his region and his people have nothing to show for their loyalty to the Republican party for the past 40 years, but broken promises of trickle down benifits, and the lowest standard of living in America, and is refusing nto be a useful idiot
He is an American hero, and young men like him, are turning the south "purple" and "blue"