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HarveyBriggs Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 11:59 PM
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8. That is correct.
The Nation has it, and it's been reported frequently that Ashcroft has yet to convict a terrorsit.

On the other hand, we are convicting soldiers. Start with the pilots involved with dropping bombs on Canadians. That was tragic, but it happens.

One thing that disguted me with Vietnam, and disgusts me now with Bush's war, is that once we get involved with a quagmire the politicians begin attacking the soldiers.

Once again we have invaded somebody's homeland and we occupy it with no plan on how to solve the problem. And once again the politicians ask the soldiers to take the heat.

I think being in harms way is enough heat. I think once we send a young man or young woman into harms way, we need to be responsible for what happens. And from 9/11 on, Geroge WMD Bush has failed to take that responsiblity.

My heart breaks when I see some young reservist taken from his or her "one weekend a month" commitment and thrown into a poorly conceived war, then charged with some crime that the poor kid would have never commited save for the fact some complete mornon sent him there without proper training.

George WMD Bush admitted when he ran for this office that our armed services should not be used for nation building. And now he's sent them for that purpose. That's his mistake, not our soldier's mistake.

This is true, what I reported. Simply because the Bush News Network has not reported it does not make it untrue or unimportant.

Haarvey Briggs

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