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To: altair19 who wrote (29466)	7/22/2005 4:55:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361871

Guest Commentary-Of treason and Karl Rove barnstablepatriot.com <<...For the past two years, President Bush has promised America that whoever leaked that information would be fired and should be prosecuted. His media spokesmen have repeated that mantra and said Rove was not involved. Now that Rove has been positively identified as one of the national security leakers, silence is heard at the White House. I personally like and voted for President Bush, but this is beyond party or political lines. He has helped my family with government matters. These acts by members of the Administration are illegal and were done to quiet critics of the Administration. It seems that Rove and the other leaker are the new White House Plumbers. For those that are too young or don’t remember, it was from the Plumbers of Richard Nixon that we got Watergate, spying on Americans, vendettas and enemies lists and breaking into the doctors’ offices of Administration critics. It was illegal and wrong then and it is the same now no matter who the President is. When an Administration decides to leak national security and classified information to hurt and intimidate a critic, they become a domestic enemy of our nation, freedom and democracy. We must demand answers rather than excuses. If answers are not forthcoming, impeachment is an option. The reporters that printed or know who the leakers are but refuse to disclose have no constitutional right to remain silent. They are helping, by their silence, in crimes and acts affecting our national security. They are not heroes and belong in jail...>>

To: altair19 who wrote (29466)	7/23/2005 6:57:51 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361871

a19: It's a shame our 'Family Values President' has sent our troops into a pressure cooker over in Iraq -- he sent them into a war based on lies and faulty intelligence...Over 1700 soldiers have been killed...Well over 10,000 of our troops are permanently injured for life...and now look what's happening... Stressed US troops in Iraq 'turning to drugs' By Thomas Harding in Baghdad (Filed: 23/07/2005) telegraph.co.uk. Two years into the occupation of Iraq the menace of drug abuse appears to be afflicting American troops. Aware of the debilitating effect drugs had on the morale and effectiveness of GIs in the Vietnam War, the authorities are attempting to stifle a repeat in Iraq. Aside from random urine tests and barrack room searches, commanders have asked their troops to inform on colleagues. In the past month a soldier has been arrested for selling cocaine and two per cent of the troops from one brigade have been charged with drug and alcohol abuse. According to US army figures, out of the 4,000 men of the 256th Brigade Combat Team, 53 faced alcohol-related charges and 48 were charged with drug offences. Since the overthrow of Saddam's regime the borders that have been so porous for insurgents have been equally open for heroin and hash smugglers from Afghanistan and Iran providing a cheap market for troops. With colleagues being killed or wounded on a daily basis, some US soldiers have turned to drugs to escape the horrors of fighting insurgents. In one case, according to Stars and Stripes, the in-house US forces newspaper, Sgt Michael Boudreaux was found with drugs, four bottles of whiskey and 22 videos of Iraqi pornography. He received a seven month confinement, was demoted to private and given a bad conduct discharge. In another case, Pte Emily Hamilton told a court martial that she used a hashish pipe belonging to a colleague because "it helped me go right to sleep". She was given a year's confinement and a bad conduct discharge. "Some of these young soldiers just can't handle the stress," said Capt Christopher Krafchek, a military defence lawyer. The majority of drug-users are in their teens or early 20s, and sometimes get their drugs from local Iraqis while on patrol in Baghdad. Troops caught in possession of illegal substances are either jailed, demoted or discharged from the forces.