The Bush economy, Iraq, and returning reservists....

[lunarboy13]

Check out this story....It doesn't bode well for Bush and his economy!


WASHINGTON - Benefits reduced. Promotions forgotten. Jobs gone. It's tough to find these conditions when returning home from the mean streets of Iraq (news - web sites), ready to resume your civilian career. Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops returning home are experiencing just such disappointment.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Labor Department (news - web sites) reports receiving greater numbers of complaints under a 1994 law that is primarily designed to give Guard and Reserve troops their old jobs back, or provide them with equivalent positions.

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[StClone]

1. Rove move?

He did this to get more votes (military vote Repub. in the past) this November, to have more bodies to throw at Iraq and where ever else and to punish Germany. Will it backfire? It already has.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Can't get hopes up, but DU stories going mainstream -- fast!

Another example -- Issue of Bush's highly-controlled campaign audiences is all over the print press today.