I have the "accepting" in brackets because the refugee applications haven't been process thus not accepted yet. Canada has a history of receiving Americans fleeing the draft, and recently articles started showing up about American soldiers who have come to Canada to avoid service in Iraq. I don't know how much this is in the American media.
Not in our name Guardian Article Village Voice
Right off the bat I figure there will be two general responses those that think they did the right thing and they had to and those that will name call and think them irresponsible.
Lets assume those two views cannot be reconciled. People on those two sides of the fence will never see eye to eye on this lets try to avoid the inevitable name calling.
So here's the question, is Canada undermining U.S. sovereignty when we accept Soldiers or Draft dodgers as refugees?
I'm undecided on this, personally I am against the draft, but these two soldiers volunteered. However I also know that many volunteer without ever expecting to see combat (naive yes, but not uncommon). On top of that there is the issue of the controversy over the legitimacy of the Iraqi war, this is not American's defending American soil (unless we count the oil fields if they have been purchased).