Part-Time Soldiers, Full-Time Woes

[dArKeR]

The men of the Florida National Guard have fought the good fight since February, from Kuwait all the way to Baghdad, battling everything from Iraqi soldiers to would-be terrorists.

Now, they and thousands of other reservists have been told they may have to stay a full year, reports CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier. It's technically what they signed up for, but they'd been told they were going home.

Staff Sgt. Travis Bruner says he's "a little bit upset." While Specialist Drew Core says he's "in shock."

Privately, many guardsmen were more blunt; they say their commanders lied to them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/09/eveningnews/main572409.shtml

Junior is history but don't stop. Protest, write mails, call, donate to a Democrat, support our moral Hollywood Stars...

Get our children out of there now! Replace them with Bush, his Secret Service, Capitol Park Police, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's DOD security unit, Congress, Powell, Diplomatic Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, Repukelican National Committee, Falwell and his church, Robertson and his church, Graham and his church, and ALL the GOP children.

[PartyPooper]

1. Junior should travel to the Middle East at Christmas.

Who said there is a Santa Claus?

[TeeYiYi]

2. I wonder if they know about the plan to . . .

. . . rotate them back in after serving one year and then taking one year off? Yup. I heard it tonight on Nightline. After they take a year off they will be rotated back in to serve for a another year. Unfuckingbelievable.

TYY

[dArKeR]

3. You're a smart TeeYiYi. You got me on that one. And true it is! Start

spreading this fact around!

[Hobarticus]

4. Hell, go AWOL, just like Bush!

After all, if it's good for the C-in-C, it's good for the troops, right?!?

[dArKeR]

5. I wonder if that could be used as evidence in a real AWOL trial? And more

official records subpoenaed. Witnesses called.

You know, not one person has ever come forward who will say they saw Bush at the required NG training which Bush says he took. I guess having no witness is the evidence.