Just for the record, Australia and South Korea sent troops to Vietnam, so it wasn't
the whole world opposed.
RickK
Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
As to Canada's role, there was nothing to
apologize for. If a draft
were reinstituted we should certainly be open to accepting refugees
from it.
Oh, I don't disagree. I was just pointing it out as a particularly
striking bit of evidence that the rest of the world wasn't only against
the US war in Vietnam, but so actively against it as to be willing to
take whatever legal means they had at their disposal to work against it
(short of sanctions, of course).
As for this war, I seem to recall that at least one Canadian court has
ruled the opposite---that regardless of the legality of the initial
invasion, since the current occupation is sanctioned by a UN Security
Council resolution, it's not illegal and therefore those avoiding it are
not elegible for refugee status. (Of course, Canadian refugee laws may
have also changed in the past 30 years.)
-Mark
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