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To: the navigator who wrote (46297)	5/24/2004 8:26:10 PM
From: the navigator	Respond to of 50167

Here's the truth about Mr. Bush, sad but true: (borrowed from another thread). How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb? The Answer is SEVEN: 1. one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced 2. one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb, 3. one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb, 4. one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs, 5. one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb, 6. one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag, 7. and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.

To: the navigator who wrote (46297)	5/25/2004 3:20:24 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

<Ike, you sly dog.> You are a cute puppy, I hope 'now sitting' that I changed your alibi or you may be use to aka or so that your alibi or aka becomes less 'libido prone' and less sexy.. <send your children> On my kids? Your facts are incorrect.I definitely will not overlook your question.. Combat jobs require a green card minimum, since they are highly educated they would be looking for jobs as commissioned officers, they cannot qualify to secure positions in the fields of intelligence or military police. Only citizens can qualify to become commissioned or warrant officers, or serve in special warfare programs such as the Marine Recon or Navy Seals. Immigrants are locked out of these types of MOS's because they cannot get a security clearance — restricted to U.S.-born and naturalized citizens only. Appointment Standards: The candidate must be a U.S. citizen On jobs in US Army kindly note this, you need a minimum of US green card Opportunities are rare for a non U.S. Citizen. But in the Locations outside of the Continental US in which the Corps has an office Local Nationals are hired. Click on the Locations to work and take note of the servicing Operating/Advisory Personnel Office for that area. usace.army.mil From the look of it ‘now sitting’ your frontlines like British front lines in second world war are swelling with colored ranks, three more colored would make no difference. DOD statistics indicate that Latinos, though still slightly underrepresented in the armed forces overall (they make up 9.5 percent of active forces and 13 percent of the U.S. population), are over-represented on the front lines with 17.7 percent. As of August 28, Latinos show a casualty rate of more than 13 percent. In fact, one of the first casualties of the Iraq "conflict" was a U.S. soldier named Jose Gutierrez, an orphaned Guatemalan who was not even an American citizen. From the looks of it is poverty more than anything else that people flee to find army jobs, I hate to bring families and kids into it but from the look of it appears that Latinos and Black parents take their job of sacrifice more seriously than anyone else now. So you ‘now sitting’ don’t worry about other peoples sacrifices, you most probably are not represented proportionately. The DOD statistics imply African Americans make up a disproportionate 21 percent of total armed forces, including 15 percent of combat troops and 29 percent of the U.S. Army, while making up only 12 percent of the general population. Charles Barron, a Brooklyn council member renowned for his outspoken views about black and Latino youth in the armed forces, told Newsday, "I don't want to hear about statistics and the disproportionate numbers . . . the main reason that people of color join the military is to escape poverty.