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To: GST who wrote (166250)	7/16/2005 6:53:53 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

What is the legal basis for forcing the national guardsmen to act as military? "You haven't seen these kinds of participation from the states since the Civil War," Idaho's GOP Gov. Dirk Kempthorne said. More than 250,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen have been mobilized for active duty since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, the Army general in charge of National Guard forces, said last week. National Guard soldiers represent about 40 percent of the U.S. ground force in Iraq.

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