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SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct 4 (IPS) - A U.S. soldier who went AWOL -- absent without leave -- over his opposition to the war in Iraq was incarcerated at the U.S. military's Mannheim prison in Germany Tuesday, pending an appeal in Washington this November..

Augustin Aguayo's imprisonment comes less than a week after he turned himself in at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. Aguayo, 34, had been in hiding since early September.
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It now seems quite likely, short of a major miracle for the Republicans, that the Democrats will win at least one, and probably both, houses of the U.S. Congress in the elections on Nov. 7. What difference will that make? I should say that I personally will vote the Democratic ticket. But like a lot of people, I will vote it primarily as a negative vote against George W. Bush and secondarily against the Republican majority in both houses. I shall do this for many reasons, but first of all because I think the invasion of Iraq was immoral, counterproductive, and in general a fiasco - for the United States, for Iraq, and for the entire world. There are many other complaints I have about the current regime - its attacks on the fundamental liberties of the American people, its retrogressive domestic economic and social policies, and its inept and unwise foreign policy in general. But Iraq tops them all as a reason. So I shall vote in protest, and to try to stop things from getting even worse.

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