'They're Scared of Killing': More US Troops Are Trying to Leave the Military as Iran War Rages On

Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran and head of the Center on Conscience and War, says many troops seeking to leave have served over a decade. (Credit: Center on Conscience and War website)

Seven months into the Iran war, American social activist Mike Prysner has spoken with dozens of American service members looking for a way out of the military. Not one, he said, had told him they are afraid of dying.

'They're scared of killing in a war that they don't believe in,' Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscience and War (CCW), said on Democracy Now! in March.