Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to comment on that. There is definitely a difference between the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. If I had been stopped, lost, and brought back into the military, and they said, you're going to Iraq rather than Afghanistan, I wouldn't have gone wilfully or happily,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's my understanding.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  May I comment on this?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I personally believe that Canada should do as much as it can to help those people too. In terms of what Mr. Karygiannis was saying about soldiers coming from different wars or soldiers who are from a different country that is also participating in Iraq, I think they deserve the s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is true. If he were to go back, he would have a prosecution, serve a period of time in prison, and then he would have that bad conduct discharge, which is a permanent conviction on your record.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, you have a bad conduct discharge, which is a conviction.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Growing up as an American, I just had this feeling, as many people do, that what my country was doing was representing goodness. I came to the conclusion that what we were doing at that point was representing what, to me, the United States doesn't represent. During my tour I saw

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. My name is Phillip McDowell. I'm a former sergeant in the United States Army. I volunteered for the army the month after September 11 because I felt that my country was under attack and, as did many Americans, I wanted to do something positive for my country in terms