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War Resisters: Marine Cpl and Dean Walcott

war resisters: Dean Walcott, 34, who came to Canada in 2006, told a news conference, according to Hamilton Spectator. Walcott, who lives with his wife and Canadian-born children in Peterborough, is one of four American soldiers whose cases are due in Federal Court in September. Bolstered by a recent British report that found no justification for the bloody U.S.-led invasion, the war resisters pleaded for the Liberal government to make good on promises to end their state of limbo. "I'm shocked and dismayed that it still going on," former U.S. marine Cpl. Activists say the litigation is going forward even though Trudeau expressed support for the war dodgers during last year election campaign and told The Canadian Press earlier this year that his government was actively looking into the issue. He came to Canada in 2008 after being ordered to deploy to Iraq for a third time. Also facing judicial action is Jeremy Brockway, 31, another U.S. marine who returned from Iraq in 2007 with severe post-traumatic stress syndrome that keeps him largely housebound. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.