This stinks! Soldiers and Oil Co. workers get the same medal?

[displacedtexan]

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The title of the op ed cited does not reflect the importance of the contents. If I've broken the rules, do what you have to do; but, I hope you will offer suggestions as to how we all can communicate (in the future) the important content of such BFEE activities.

My analysis of the op ed cited below:

So... Bush* has decided that soldiers and Halliburton workers deserve the same freepin' medal for their service? Tell that to the families of the dead, the wounded, and the permanently maimed and disfigured who fought for our country in Afghanistan and in Iraq!

I've included the writer's email addy. I hope everyone will reply to this op ed.

This stinks like yesterday's diapers!
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Global War medals aren't the same as ones for specific campaigns

02/08/04
Thomas Wm. McGarry

This is wrong.

In its infinite but often puzzling wisdom, the Department of Defense decided variations of one medal will recognize military service in Afghanistan, Iraq and all the other arenas of the global war on terrorism.

President Bush authorized the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal last year. The first is awarded to those who've fought against terrorism since 9/11; the second to those who have supported that effort.

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The Defense Department's decision, which some see as a not terribly subtle attempt to again link the campaign against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden with regime change in Iraq, largely violates established American military history and tradition.

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Thomas Wm. McGarry is a Portland writer specializing in military and defense topics: [e-mail]


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[Ilsa]

1. Uh, aren't the oil field workers and KBR people

getting paid something like four or five times their regular salaries for going over there? Why should they get a medal also?

This administration has no consideration for fairness.

[Torgo4]

2. Uh...I Missed Where Civilians Can Get This Award!

If so...Paste the passage.
I would be incensed if true.

[soon zoo]

3. why doesn't this surpriseme?

maybe Cheney will get a medal next year when he's bck in control of haliburton and visits his peoples in the war zone