Amazing how quickly OUR troops can be trained for death in Iraq...

[OneTwentyoNine]

I think the basic training period is what 12-13 weeks? Then its off to sunny Iraq for the majority. Yet,we can't leave Iraq until Iraqi troops are "properly trained" to take over from US troops. BULLSHIT..how many YEARS does it take to train an Iraqi to fight for THEIR country??

Of course we all know where this little chestnut came from,straight out of Vietnam. That line of bullshit kept us there until 1973,their troops never were able to take over and neither will Iraqi's. The will to fight and die is a HELL of alot less when you have some young American kid doing the dying...

[Trevelyan]

1. I agree. Veterans' Groups have complained that it really takes a year

for our soldiers to be combat ready and even the Mainstream Press has reported Generals saying that Bush is breaking the greatest fighting force in the world by his policies. The same words have been repeated every few months for more than 2 years but who is listening.

Support our troops people???

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OurVotes Count-Ohio Did you know that Rep. Conyers' is asking for people to write to John Kerry, that Kerry is thinking of quitting the lawsuit against the OBSTRUCTION OF THE VOTE AND THE RECOUNT IN OHIO.

The deadline for Kerry/Edwards to make their decision is Aug 30, 2005, please email Kerry, either type in his name in Search Engine or better go to Congress.org which publishes citizens' LETTERS TO LEADERS as soon as they go through.

Honorable John Kerry
511 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002

Honorable John Edwards
401 W. Trade Street, Suite 219
Charlotte, NC 28202-1619
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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0408,schanberg,51276,1.html
When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.
Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind

by Sydney H. Schanberg
February 24th, 2004 1:00 PM W
"Did America Abandon Vietnam War POWs?" by Sydney H. Schanberg

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Who is the Real John Kerry? A PERSONAL HISTORY by S. Brian
Willson January 2004

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Perhaps Kerry's presidential aspiration could be called an obsession?! By 1986-87, my own politics were moving further and further outside the claustrophobic "American" box, and by 1988 I departed Washington, DC and Kerry's advisory committee altogether. Although I have followed a bit of Kerry's political career, especially his Senatorial hearings that uncovered revelations about connections between the CIA, drug running, and funding Contras, I have generally merely noted that he has a reputation for being liberal on environmental and some social issues but seems very hawkish on foreign policy matters.

His support for Clinton's draconian welfare reform program was depressing, as was his support of Clinton's Counterterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1966, a precursor to the 2001 Patriot Act, the latter of which Kerry also supported. Kerry's October 11, 2002 clearly unconstitutional vote to grant nearly unlimited, virtual generic war-making authority to George W. Bush was for me just too grotesque.

It meant that John F. Kerry had clearly, tragically placed his obsessive quest for the White House above his oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and international law, and ignore the lessons he had learned about corrupt dishonest governments using phony pretexts to rationalize murdering countless people in foreign lands
while placing our own soldiers in harm's way.