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To: Alighieri who wrote (266841)	1/3/2006 1:55:48 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576600

4 kill in Baltimore on New Years Day. Time to pull out

To: Alighieri who wrote (266841)	1/3/2006 2:40:05 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576600

To the amount of people being killed everyday for no good reason at all. Traffic is by far the bigger reaper of the two. But not so interesting, right? Because not that sensational. Next, how about murder committed per month in DC? Compared to Americans killed in Iraq, I mean. Different "kinds" of deaths, I guess. Thus in no way related, right? How about getting real, Ali? All parties, left and right, have been ignoring and accepting the unnecessary high rates of losses in life in traffic and through murders for decades now with very little effort if any to do anything about it. In your liberal world of "nuances" I guess that is fully acceptable. A loss of life is a loss of and in life. No nuances necessary here at all IMO. Taro

To: Alighieri who wrote (266841)	1/3/2006 3:26:41 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576600

Support for Bush drops among US military: poll Mon Jan 2, 8:22 PM ET Support for President George W. Bush's Iraq policy has fallen among the US armed forces to just 54 percent from 63 percent a year ago, according to a poll by the magazine group Military Times. In its annual survey of the views of military personnel, the group reported on its website that support for Bush's overall policies dropped over the past year to 60 percent from 71 percent. While still significantly more supportive of the president than the broad US population, the fall in support by military personnel tracks a similar decline in the president's popularity among the general public. "Though support both for President Bush and for the war in Iraq remains significantly higher than in the public as a whole, the drop is likely to add further fuel to the heated debate over Iraq policy," Military Times said. "In 2003 and 2004, supporters of the war in Iraq pointed to high approval ratings in the Military Times poll as a signal that military members were behind ... the president's policy." However, it said, the new poll "found diminished optimism that US goals in Iraq can be accomplished, and a somewhat smaller drop in support for the decision to go to war in 2003." Military Times, which publishes popular magazines for each of the US military branches including Army Times and Navy Times, cautioned that its poll, of 1,215 active-duty servicemen, is not necessarily representative of the military as a whole. The respondents were "on average older, more experienced, more likely to be officers and more career-oriented than the military population." But the declining numbers for Bush tracked other polls. According to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, support for Bush's performance as president fell from 49 percent to 43 percent over the year to December 22. The Military Times poll also showed a significant decline in the armed forces' views of US military policy and management. With 61 percent of respondents saying they had served in Iraq or Afghanistan, only 58 percent believed that Bush had the military's best interests at heart, a sharp decline from 69 percent a year before. Only 56 percent felt the US should have gone to war in Iraq, compared to 60 percent a year before. And 64 percent felt the same about the Pentagon leadership, compared to 70 percent a year ago. Addressing key issues facing the Pentagon, the poll showed that almost two-thirds of the soldiers felt the US military is "stretched too thin to be effective", but the number was less than a year ago. At the same time, there was a fall in resistance to restoring the draft in the United States. Opposition fell from 75 percent a year ago to 68 percent this year.

To: Alighieri who wrote (266841)	1/3/2006 6:00:08 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576600

'Marlboro Marine': Home Front Woes NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2006 (CBS) In November 2004, a photo of a U.S. Marine made the front page of newspapers across the country. The picture is still one of the best-known images of the war. But the man himself has moved on, and is having trouble adjusting to civilian life. Lance Cpl. Blake Miller of Jonancy, Ky., came to be known as the "Marlboro Marine" when his picture was splashed across the nation. The attention didn't get him any special privileges, and he served his entire combat tour before he and his unit were ordered home. The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith was there in February when Miller got to hug his mother upon his return. At the time, Miller told Smith, "I lost a few of some of my dearest friends. People don't understand how you can be so close to someone that you've only known for such a short time but, when you spend a year-and-a-half with someone, you know some things about them their own family doesn't even know about. People say that the Marine Corps is a brotherhood, and you truly do not realize that until you actually need your brothers, and that's when they're there." But, like many of his comrades, Miller wasn't able to completely put his time in Iraq behind him. While on duty during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, Miller suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and was granted an honorable discharge from the Marines in November. Miller's life is also different in another way. In June, he married his longtime love, Jessica. On The Early Show Tuesday, Miller told Smith, "For the most part, I mean, it was a big adjustment (when I got home) just trying to get in that mindset of being able to just roam, run around without fear of being shot at or where to look for danger. … It's unexplainable. I mean, just to go from that mindset to being able to walk around freely and just enjoy it." Miller said the trouble that arose during his Katrina duties happened on the USS Iwo Jima when a sailor mimicked the whistle of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). "For anybody to duplicate that sound," Miller told Smith, "they've had to hear it. Without even knowing what I'd done until after it was over, I snatched him up, I slammed him against the bulkhead, the wall, and took him to the floor, and I was on top of him." Miller went into therapy, but wasn't told right away that he had PTSD. "At first, they thought maybe it was the pressure of being on the ship," he said. "The more doctors I talked to, the more they came to the conclusion that (PTSD) is what it is. … I'm continuing my therapy; continued up until the day I got out (of the service), actually." And Miller knows he's not alone. "A lot of guys have had way worse incidents from being in Iraq," he said. "And I guess it just — it troubled me due to the fact that their incidents may have been more severe, and they weren't suffering from the same things I was. I just didn't understand how it could affect me so dramatically and not affect some of these guys. But a lot of them deal with different ways. "The more and more I talk to (other guys), the more I found out there were a lot of Marines that are going through same or similar emotions. It's tough to deal with. Being in Iraq is something no one wants to talk about." ©MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. cbsnews.com