Court decision: Army 1; Coward 0

According to this AP story, Loser-of-the-week Agustin Aguayo lost his bid to get out of a military prison after going AWOL the night before his unit was to deploy to Iraq. Aguayo joined the Army in 2002, when it was obvious to anyone that many of the troops would soon be in action. However he claims that he only joined the military to get the educational benefits that our country offers to it's soldiers and that he never thought that he'd actually have to fight. Apparently as soon as he got his orders for Iraq, he and his best friend (cowards of a feather stick together) applied for conscientious-objector status. The Army noted that they only applied after receiving their deployment orders and turned them down. So Aguayo ran like a yellow punk while the rest of his unit went to Iraq.

Aguayo recently appealed to the US District Court in Washington, DC, asking to have the Army's decision overturned and his prison stay ended. But the court sided with the Army and Aguayo will continue to sit in a military prison on charges of desertion and missing a troop movement until his trial next month. He could get up to seven years in prison if convicted, and personally I'm hoping that he gets the whole seven.

Our military offers many nice benefits, it's true. But they are offered as compensation and reward for an enlistee putting himself at risk and deploying if and when he is called upon to do so. I have less than zero respect for those losers who enlist to get those benefits who then refuse to do their part when called upon, The educational benefits and other perks are part of a quid pro quo deal, and you don't get to grab them without having to do your part in return if called.

I'll always support jailing cowards who go AWOL to avoid doing their sworn duty, and I'll even support stripping the citizenship of any coward who flees the country to avoid performing his duty, as some enlistees have done. Granted many where undoubtedly encouraged by former President Jimmy Carter, who gave amnesty to the cowards who did that during Vietnam. Let's hope that we never again get a weak President who makes a similar mistake in regards to the cowards who recently ran to Canada after their units were ordered deployed. Like Agustin Aguayo, they are a disgrace to this country and should spend years in prison should they ever darken our shores or set foot on our sacred soil again.