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Aidan Delgado Speaks to Berkeley High

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Conscientious objector, Aidan Delgado speaks to Berkeley Highschool about the Iraq war and becoming a conscientious objector on March 23, 2005.

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In Good Conscience

By Scott Fleming, LiP Magazine. Posted January 10, 2005.

A soldier who served with the 320th Military Police Company at Abu Ghraib speaks out about the atrocities he witnessed.

Aidan Delgado was a Florida college student looking for a change when he decided to join the Army Reserve. He signed his enlistment contract on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. After finishing the paperwork, he saw a television broadcast of the burning World Trade Center and realized he might be in for more than one weekend a month of low-key service.

In the ensuing months, Delgado became dedicated to Buddhism and its principles of pacifism. By April 2003, when he began his year-long tour in Iraq, he was openly questioning whether he could participate in the war in good conscience. Having grown up in Cairo, Delgado spoke Arabic and had not been steeped in the racism that drove many of his fellow soldiers. When he surrendered his rifle and declared himself a conscientious objector, he was punished by his officers and ostracized by his peers.

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