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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: username who wrote (87162)11/25/2000 9:28:53 AM
From: Proton  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: Military Problems? What Military Problems?

Some of the most noxious flatus spread on this board is the assertion that everything is just peachy in the military. I believe one addled poster even challenged us to find anyone in the military who felt disenfranchised.

Mackubin Thomas Owens wrote an article that put this matter to rest ( opinionjournal.com ) :

As the postelection impasse continues in Florida, military e-mail circuits are aflame with denunciations of Al Gore and the Democratic Party. Members of the U.S. military at all ranks are enraged at what appears to be a systematic attempt on the part of the Democrats to exclude as many military absentee votes as possible.

Gore operatives in Florida have managed to get more than 1,500 ballots disqualified. Service members are appalled at the hypocrisy of Mr. Gore's call to make sure that "every vote counts" while absentee military ballots are being thrown out, often for errors that are not the voter's fault but the result of problems with the military mail system.

But angry as they may be at what appears to be an effort on the part of Democrats to disenfranchise them, most are not surprised. They see this episode as just one more battle in the ongoing culture war between the core of the Democratic Party and the U.S. military. [emphases added]

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