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To: TimF who wrote (149007)10/25/2004 11:32:51 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<The government did not force them to sign the contracts.>

We have a volunteer military -- knowing that they might be sent to Iraq to sit around in the heat until called upon to leave their fortified base and be killed in a mindless military action, then the ability to have a volunteer military is put at risk. Those serving now did not expect to spend a year in Iraq.